Facts and Figures

Founded in 1901
Head of School, David Beare, appointed 2019, Georgetown University BSFS, Harvard University M.Div, M.Ed.
350 Acre campus
Serves grades 9-12
408 Students
70% boarding, 30% day
12 Students per class, on average
23 Advanced Placement courses
4 to 1 Student-to-faculty ratio
71% Teaching faculty with advanced degrees
25 Miles from Boston and Logan Airport
35 Faculty dogs on campus
28 Sports offered

The Students

14% International students
23 Countries represented
24 States represented
Top 5 states represented by boarding students: MA, NY, NJ, CA, CT
408 Students: approximately 88 freshmen, 111 sophomores, 105 juniors, and 104 seniors
700 and 710 mean SAT Evidenced-Based Reading and Writing (EBRW) and Math scores of 2019 graduating class
32 mean composite ACT score of the class of 2019
92% of the 583 AP tests taken by 221 Middlesex students in 2019 were a “3” or better; 71% were a “4” or “5”; 45% were a “5”
Top 10 Colleges attended by Middlesex graduates in the last 5 years: Boston College, Brown University, Colby College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Hamilton College, Harvard University, New York University, University of Chicago

Alumni of Note

Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF
Bret Stephens, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New Mexico and former Presidential candidate
Bill Weld, Former Governor of Massachusetts
Bob Iuliano, President of Gettysburg College
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
Elizabeth Mayhew, Columnist for The Washington Post and contributing editor at NBC’s Today Show
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Jessica Tuck, Actor – One Life to Live, HBO’s True Blood, High School Musical
Joe Kahn, Managing Editor of The New York Times
Joe Watkins, MSNBC political commentator and pastor of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of Instagram
Margaret Williams, Managing Director at the World Wildlife Fund
Rob Tod, founder of Allagash and James Beard Award winner
Patty Kazmaier-Sandt, namesake of the USA Hockey Foundation award for the top player in NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey
Sarah Leary, Co-founder of Nextdoor
Steve Carell, Actor – The Office; Despicable Me; Crazy, Stupid, Love
Tiya Miles, Professor of History at Harvard University and MacArthur Fellow
William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor

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
34% Students receiving financial aid
$49,533 Average grant

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