The 1963 campus was designed by William D. Warner, the architect that went on to create several high-profile area projects, including Providence's Waterplace Park and the iWay Bridge.

[1] The campus design includes woods, wetlands and gardens that accommodate year-round outdoor learning and allow students to grow their own food.

[2][3] Since the 1990s, Gordon has worked strategically to increase the diversity of the school and to ensure that every student and family feels entitled to full membership in the community.

[7] In 2018, Gordon abandoned the traditional financial aid model used by independent schools, replacing it with a system they called Family Individualized Tuition.

Gordon's teams have historically stood out at the competition by having a strong gender balance, and the school credits their success to a new, more inclusive approach to math introduction that began in 2012.

[13] Students' work with the pond and stream on campus, as well as nearby Narragansett Bay, has earned the school regional attention from environmental education groups.