The house sits on a large lot high atop Belmont Hill, looking out over Cambridge and Boston.

Belmont Hill is also a founding member of the International Boys' Schools Coalition.

Sports offered for middle school and upper school students at Belmont Hill include:

Belmont Hill offers both curricular and extracurricular tuition in visual arts, music and theater.

Belmont Hill has various programs to study and travel abroad.

Belmont Hills is known for its hilly terrain.

Belmont Hills has no commercial district.

There is one prep school star in the group, Ian Moran, a defenseman from Belmont Hill.

An inclined plane on the bridge's west side drew the railway cars up Belmont Hill by cable.

Steam-driven cables dragged the railway cars to the top of Belmont Hill.