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The 25 most expensive elite boarding schools in America
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An elite boarding
school experience holds a lot of value, from exposing
students to a world-class education to o pening
doors to prominent colleges - but it often
comes at a steep price.
Business Insider recently published our list of the
most elite boarding schools in the country using
endowment, acceptance rate, and average SAT score
provided by BoardingSchoolReview.com,
a website that collects information on boarding schools
directly from the institutions.
Though we didn't factor annual
tuition into our original ranking, we've re-ranked the pool
of 50 elite boarding schools based on 2015-2016 tuition figures
to find out which ones are the most expensive.
The two most expensive elite boarding schools - St. Albans School
and The Masters School - both charge nearly $58,000 in annual
tuition.
Notably absent from the top-25 most expensive are the No. 1 and
No. 2 most elite boarding schools,
Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy Andover - both
have an annual tuition of less than $48,000.
Still, despite the high costs charged by these boarding schools,
many offer millions of dollars a year in financial aid to
families who can't afford the full cost.
Read on to find out how much it costs to attend some of the most
elite boarding schools in America.
Portsmouth Abbey School boasts
1.24 miles of coastline along Narragansett Bay and houses 70% of
its students. The Roman Catholic school is also home to a
fully operational, on-campus
monastery led by a
community of Benedictine monks. The Benedictine ideal of a
" community life of work
and prayer" informs the school's ethos, which teaches students to balance academics with social and physical
activities.
In 2014, the highest number of
Northfield Mount Hermon
students matriculated
to Boston University, NYU,
George Washington University, and Northwestern. The school helps
students get there by offering $8.4 million in financial aid and
a
College Model Academic Program, which requires them to complete three
college-prep courses each semester. Eighty percent of students
are boarders on NMH's 1,565-acre campus , most of which is along the scenic
Connecticut River.
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Deerfield Academy provides 35% of
its student body with $8 million in financial aid annually . In
addition to participating academically, students are required to
be involved in a cocurricular activity like community service,
dance, theater, or sports. More than one-fourth of
Deerfield's 330-acre campus
is comprised of athletic fields,
tennis courts, a fitness center, and a 5,900-square-foot
boathouse along the Connecticut River.
The Lawrenceville School is
defined by its
House System : a living
situation for boarders and day students where each of the 18
dormitories represents a subcommunity informed by grade and
gender. The houses often compete for academic and athletic honors
and have individual traditions like sports games and
community-service events. Lawrenceville is committed to its Green
Campus Initiative, which includes
a 30-acre solar farm
that covers 90% of the school's
energy needs.
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Technology is intertwined with
the curriculum at St. Andrew's
School. Students use
blogs to document their progress in physics, musicians send
recordings to their instructors for feedback, and teachers keep
in touch with their pupils through learning-management
software.
St. Andrew's students also gain
entrance to elite colleges. New York University, Wesleyan
University, and Davidson College topped the list of the most
popular choices from the last four years.
Affectionately known as "The School
by the Sea," Tabor
Academy has a longstanding maritime heritage that permeates its
programs and extracurriculars. Experiential learning
opportunities for students include marine- and nautical-science
studies, traveling to the Virgin Islands on the school's
part-classroom,
part-vessel schooner ,
and participating in a collaborative class on the Oyster Farm.
Tabor hopes to be internationally recognized for ocean ecology by
2026.
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The vigorous academic courses at
Cate School are designed to foster students' self-knowledge and
the village-like campus - known as the Mesa - encourages students
to take advantage of the nearby Los Padres National Forest and
Pacific Ocean for outdoor learning and leisure
activities. Cate
School's selectivity could
be explained by its commitment
to diversity: The
student body is comprised of 42% students of color from 31 states
and 17 countries.
At Brooks School , students are encouraged to fill their
schedules with the classes that most interest them, from
multivariable calculus to 3-D design to African-American
literature. Between their
junior and senior years, students can apply for a spot in Brooks'
Students on the Forefront of Science program, which matches
applicants with internships in cutting-edge science and
technology hubs. Past placements have included spots at
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's
Hospital.
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The Thacher School is in
California's serene Ojai Valley where the mountains run east to
west and hiking and horseback riding
are common outdoor activities for
students and faculty. The school aims to teach its student body
-
90% of whom are boarders - the value of a disciplined education in
congruence with adventures in the wilderness.
Millbrook School still maintains decades-old traditions that
help cement each student as a piece of the school's rich history.
These traditions range from Friday Night Forums, where students
hear from renowned speakers, to intersession, where they spend a
week outside the classroom doing things like mastering ballroom
dancing or camping in the Adirondacks.
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Blair Academy students can take advantage of the "maker
space," a laboratory-turned-workshop where students dive
headfirst into hands-on design projects like 3-D printing and
building robots. On the other side of the creative spectrum,
students can also partake in a range of fine arts, from acting to
orchestra to set design for plays.
Oregon Episcopal School is a
pre-K through 12th-grade day school with an optional boarding
program for grades 9 through 12. The high school's
Aardvark Science Exposition
is an annual science,
engineering, computer-science, and math-research competition
where finalists are sent to the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair, the world's largest international precollege science
competition . Last
year, more than a dozen OES students
received Grand Award
prizes of $500 to
$1,000.
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At The Governor's
Academy, each class is
tailored toward helping students develop one of the
school's
seven essential
skills , which include
thinking critically, communicating effectively, and readily
adapting to new situations. Students can also take advantage of
the school's college counselors, who partner with them to help
narrow down their choices and put together competitive
applications.
Home to two schools that share a
campus, Webb features an all-boys and an all-girls school in the
same space. The two keep classes separate through 10th-grade,
transitioning into coeducational courses in junior year.
The Webb Schools are also home to the Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology, the only museum in the US on a high-school campus
that is accredited by the
American Alliance of Museums.
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In addition to lively academic
discussion and debate in the classroom, St. George's School
emphasizes experiential learning in the local community and around the world.
Every semester the seaside Episcopal school sends students on one
leg of a transatlantic voyage in a 69-foot marine-research vessel
called
Geronimo , where they
get a firsthand education in marine biology.
The Middlesex campus was designed
by the famed Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm and is
just 20 miles outside Boston, among some of the country's most
historic towns. The school balances personal exploration and
demanding academics - an Introduction to
Mindfulness course that teaches pupils how to reduce stress and
improve relationships is required for all new students.
Notable alumni include former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld
and Kevin Systrom, the cofounder of Instagram.
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The Westminster School aims to turn students into lifelong learners
through dynamic relationships with instructors and a traditional
liberal-arts and sciences curriculum. Students can take their
education a step further through a number of enrichment
opportunities, including WISE, an online summer program that
features classes like mythology and genetics, and the School Year
Abroad program, where students spend a year studying and
traveling throughout China, France, Italy, or Spain.
Located at the foothills of Mt.
Everett, Berkshire School is surrounded by arts, culture, and
health and wellness destinations in an area known as The
Berkshires. The school is committed to preserving the setting's
natural beauty with sustainable buildings and an 8-acre solar field . In addition to a strong college-prep
curriculum, advanced programs in math and science research and humanities
research are available to Berkshire students who want to explore
beyond the required study.
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Though Concord Academy enrolls
more day students than boarders, the school has a strong
living-learning community. Students from every grade live
together in six historic family homes and
also have the option
for homestays with day students'
families. Concord values hard work over competition, calling
itself a "no prize" school that eschews class rank and academic
awards.
In 1814 , Emma Hart Willard opened the doors to her
Middlebury, Vermont, home and transformed it into a school. Now
in upstate New York, Emma Willard School threw its
bicentennial bash in 2014 , celebrating a 200-year-old legacy of
excellence in girls' education. Emma Willard is rooted in
tradition:
E ach year girls
participate in dozens of seasonal and farewell rituals like
plays, retreats, and a baccalaureate service.
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Kent School' s course catalog rivals that of a university,
with a breadth of
options that includes music technology, Roman lyrical poetry,
and meteorology. The curriculum also retains serious rigor with
27 Advanced Placement classes available and opportunities for
students to complete independent-study projects on a topic of
their choice.
The oldest Jesuit school in the
country, Georgetown Prep focuses on helping each student build a
strong mind, body, and spirit. The all-boys school provides ample
opportunities for growth - in and out of the classroom - through
numerous athletic teams, student publications, and
extracurricular clubs, including speech and debate, chess, and
student government.
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At Groton , students must take at least five
full-credit courses per semester, including classes in expository
writing, ethics, and foreign language. More than just academics,
Groton also prioritizes its sense of community, a value
emphasized by traditions such as morning Chapel Talk, daily
check-ins, surprise holidays, and the school birthday
dinner.
The Masters School uses the Harkness method in all of its
classes, so students learn through collaborative round-table
discussions in place of lectures.
Or students can take advantage of
other alternative-learning opportunities, such as CITYterm, a
semester-long program in New York City, and High Mountain
Institute, a semester in the Rocky Mountains where rigorous
academics are combined with hands-on wilderness
experience.
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St. Albans students excel academically, and the school
has graduated
45 National Merit semifinalists since 2007
and 21 Presidential Scholars in
its history. The all-boys school also partners with the National
Cathedral School for girls to offer an array of
coeducational opportunities , including art and drama programs, select
sports, and the 160-voice Chorale.
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