The Family Boarding School helping students to develop character to discover their unique potential since 1966. Grades 9-12, Post Grad. Official Facebook page of Hyde School in Bath, Maine. Helping teens discover their unique potential. Hyde School began in the early 1960s when Founder Joseph Gauld, a highly regarded mathematics teacher, was inspired to found a unique school because he believed that the existing educational system was overly focused on student achievement rather than character. One of Gauld's brightest students, who had little curiosity and relied primarily on his innate abilities, received the highest grade in the class. Another student, the classic plugger, who could not grasp the course material but who embodied curiosity and a strong work ethic, received a low grade in the class. Distraught that neither student was best served by the traditional grading system, Gauld started the Hyde School, which operated under a different set of priorities than other schools. The school began with a focus on Five Words: Courage, Integrity, Leadership, Curiosity, and Concern, and the cardinal principle that every individual was born with a unique potential that defines a destiny. Since then, Hyde has expanded with the opening of a second boarding school in Woodstock, CT, and three public schools, Hyde-DC, Hyde-Bronx, and Hyde-New Haven, CT.