Facts and Figures

Founded in 1901
Head of School, Kathleen C. Giles, appointed 2003, P’06 ’09 ’11, Harvard University A.B., J.D., M.Ed. Read the latest announcements from the Head of School search committee.
350 Acre campus
Serves grades 9-12
405 Students
70% boarding, 30% day
12 Students per class
23 Advanced Placement courses
4 to 1 Student-to-faculty ratio
76% Teaching faculty with advanced degrees
20 Miles from Boston and Logan Airport
31 Faculty dogs on campus
27 Sports offered

The Students

15% International students
19 Countries represented
25 States represented
Top 5 states represented by boarding students: MA, NY, NJ, CA, CT
405 Students: approximately 85 freshmen, 100 sophomores, 110 juniors, and 110 seniors
710 and 700 mean SAT Evidenced-Based Reading and Writing (EBRW) and Math scores of 2018 graduating class.
31 mean composite ACT score of the class of 2018.
92% of the 603 AP tests taken by 227 Middlesex students in 2018 were a “3” or better; 77% were a “4” or “5”; 46% were a “5”
Top Colleges with 10 or More Matriculates in the last 5 years: Brown University, Boston College, Bowdoin College, Columbia University, Colby College, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Hamilton College, Harvard University, Middlebury College, New York University, Tufts University, University of Chicago.

Alumni of Note

Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New Mexico and former Presidential candidate
Bill Weld, Former Governor of Massachusetts
Steve Carell, Actor – The Office; Despicable Me; Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of Instagram
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF
Jessica Tuck, Actor – One Life to Live, HBO’s True Blood, High School Musical
William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor
Elizabeth Mayhew, Columnist for The Washington Post and contributing editor at NBC’s Today Show
Cass Sunstein, Professor at Harvard Law School, former head of Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Chris Van Hollen, United States Senator, Maryland

Finances

$64,015 | $51,212 Tuition for 2019-20 boarding and day students, respectively (plus approximately $1,200 for books and spending money; no additional fees)
$262M Endowment and other long-term investments
$6.5M Allocated financial aid
35% Students receiving financial aid
$47,230 Average grant

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