The Campus With 371 students, the size of Groton School is an integral part of what makes it unique. Its size and its long-standing traditions help make the school a tight-knit community. According to my tour guide Charlie, the students, faculty and even the...
Dana Hall is an all-girls school located in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts. One of the unique things about the school is the location, just a five-minute walk to the town center, where there are many shops and restaurants. The town has the feel of a...
(This article has been updated in April 2021. The original post was written in June 2014.) An educational consultant’s visit to a top boarding school in America Upon first impressions, Phillips Exeter Academy shares some similarities with a university campus...
While many boarding school students choose between a school that is either co-educational or single-gender, The Webb Schools is unique in that it combines separate schools for boys and girls on a single campus. Classes in the 9th and 10th grades are separated for boys...
I couldn’t help but think about the location of Woodside Priory during my visit to the campus. It’s located just north of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay area and a 45-minute drive from downtown San Francisco. The school is set on 60 wooded acres and has a...
San Domenico was the first boarding school I visited on my trip to the West Coast of the US, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The school is located in Marin County, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. It sits on 515 sprawling acres of wooded hills, but you wouldn’t...
