Westminster School was established in Dobbs Ferry, NY before moving to its current CT location. Originally a boarding school for boys only, the school has long-since welcomed girls and day students seeking a top-tier learning environment in preparation for entry to the leading colleges and universities in the United States. Westminster School competes in
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Nobles, as the schools is better known, is a day and 5-day boarding school located along the Charles River just outside of Boston. The school’s founding ethos was to provide a classical education in order to prepare pupils for matriculation at Harvard and other leading universities and the school is regarded as one of the
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An all-boys, boarding and day entry college-preparatory school located on a sprawling rural campus in upstate New York as The Pawling School. T-P, as the school’s name is often abbreviated, is one of the leading boarding schools in the United States and has garnered a reputation for sporting success as a member of the Founders League.
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Situated in the quintessential picturesque New England town of Groton, just outside Boston, Lawrence Academy has been educating America’s future leaders since 1793. The school offers a traditional college-preparatory experience for both boarding and day pupils. Founded as part of the academy movement, Lawrence sought to instruct young men and women in a modern
Nicknamed “The School By The Sea”, Tabor Academy has a reputation for excellence in all things marine, from it’s famed marine science programmes to the excellent rowing crews who have achieved great success at Henley Royal Regatta (and for whom a room is named at the Leander Club). Tabor has a coastal location in
Thayer is a traditional College-Preparatory school in the far southern suburbs of the Boston Metropolitan Area. Thayer was established in 1877 as part of a fashionable trend to create academies providing a modern, scientific education and eschewing the classical focus of latin grammar schools. The school was founded by way of endowment from Gen. Sylvanus
The oldest continuous boarding school in the United States, The Governor’s Academy was established by way of endowment from former Lt. Gov. William Drummer, of the illustrious Drummer family – great supporters of early American education institutions. The school was formerly named Governor Drummer’s Academy but changed its name in 2006 and is often referred
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Sarah Porter established her eponymous school in 1843 in order to provide a modern, scientific education to young women alongside the classical education that had come to epitomise university preparatory schools in the western world. Porter’s maintains that ethos today, developing a holistic approach to education, employing the Harkness Method, and athletics in order to
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Situated on the outskirts of Hartford, Kingswood Oxford School is a co-educational day school with an excellent reputation. The school was formed through a merger of two reputable institutions, The Kingswood School (named for the Kingswood School in England) and The Oxford School, for boys and girls respectively. The school is renowned for its
Spread across three sites, with the Upper School being located on a sprawling new campus along the Charles River, BB&N is an independent private school admitting pupils from kindergarten through to grade 12. The school is one of the best regarded in the Boston area, if not the United States. The school has a history
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