Attending a prep school can give a teenager numerous advantages over their publically taught counterparts. They’ll have access to equipment and facilities that no public school can provide, they’ll be able to network with peers from influential families and they’ll be educated in a far more rigorous manner. These advantages can come with a hefty price tag, though.
The most expensive prep school in the US is Concord, Massachusetts’ Middlesex School. Founded in 1901 by Frederick Winsor, Middlesex started as a non-denominational, all-boys’ school. Additionally, Winsor’s scholarship program was a first for secondary schools. Combined, the non-denominational policy and scholarship program had the effect of drawing students from across the country to attend the school.
The most expensive prep school emphasizes long and largely unchanged traditions, such as the carving of a plaque by every student in the graduating class. Traditions like this have been kept in place by the school’s headmaster, a position that has only been filled by five people since the school’s founding over a century ago.
Tuition at Middlesex School is $40,780 for boarders and $32,625 for day students. 108 of the school’s 346 students receive an average grant of $30,740 to attend the most expensive prep school in the US.
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my school is 30k for day school in ct
mine is 23 k in Pa
I go to Choate Rosemary Hall and the tuition this year was around $42,000 for boarders and the tuition is to increase again next year.
yeah well i go to public school 4 FR33
My school is 35k for middle scool in NJ.
Middlesex is actually a lot more expensive than this article claims…including books and everything it amounts to around $50k..
This article is somewhat outdated. The most expensive prep school in the world is actually Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. Annual tuition is CHF 87,000 ($77,000 US) plus around CHF20,000 ($15,000) manditory fees for travel, expeditions and so on.
i attend one of the most expencive schools in the state of CT.and if your not rich like my family then dont even bother attempting to review the 80 dollar sighn up sheet to TRYand attend the most advance school in CT…
i go to westminster school in london, england, and the tuition there is 29,000 pounds per year, and with a current exchange rate of roughly 1.7 that would be very roughly around $50,000.
only 26,000
My school is $40,200 for a boarding student, but only $26,000 for day students, Santa Catalina in Monterey
LOL Poor Milissa, you may go to one of the most expensive schools in CT, but obviously you aren’t getting your money’s worth…
i dont hav to pay nothing at my school hahahahahahahaha peps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I go to Hockaday the premier girls preparatory in Texas. Tuition is $42,000 a year. The waiting list is 6+ years if you are not a legacy or politically connected. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attempted to get his daughter in, however we do not have any black or jew classmates.
Bad vegan, evidently you do not go to Hockady as they have several blacks, jews and hispanic and Asian students. You are an idiot and cannot possible attend Hockaday. Stay off the drugs.
I currently attend here as a senior, Im looking at 62k a year.
I go to that school. the teachers are strict
Ha ha ha, too funny MILISSA. You attend the most “advance” school in CT but can’t even spell “expencive” or use correct grammar.
LOL … what a waste of money @ Milissa.
I went to the White Mountain School in Bethlehem, NH. Tuition alone is about 44k, add boarding, books, meals, ski trips, international class trips and you got yourself a heck of a tuition bill. I think one year I went to Colorado for a backcountry ski and avalanche training trip for a week and went to France in the spring. Pretty sure that came to about 65k for the whole deal. I don't factor in travel during school breaks, but its way up in Northern NH and not easy to get to. A tutor will up the price another 12k. I don't know if it was worth the cost, but if I could go back in time and decide to go again, I would in an instant. The best teachers recently quit and now teach at Littleton High School, so you would miss the skiing, rock climbing, white water paddling and such but these teachers are what made the school. Shoutouts to Lee Z, Lar Bear, K Upt and Mally. Ranting, soz.
If you both are referring to Thurgood Marshall the US Supreme Court Justice, then you are both wrong. The Marshalls were neighbors of mine in the Washington DC suburbs in the 1970s. Doubtful that he would try to enroll his daughter in a school in Texas… that is if he had a daughter… which he did not.
The Marshalls had two children, two boys. Also, Penn happens to be my alma mater, but it wasn't Justice Marshalls, he attended Lincoln undergrad and Howard Law School. Looks like you both need a class in manners and accuracy.
Funny thing is I go to an adhd school in putney vt and it's starting tuition is 64k. It is much more wheN you add every thing else in like physiologists ad Much more btw…… Damn you autocorrect.
Also non verbal learning disabilities only effect people with average or over average
Intelligence… My iq is 131