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Dummer Academy

The Governor's Academy
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Non sibi sed aliis
Not for self, but for others
Address
1 Elm Street
Byfield, Massachusetts 01922
USA
Coordinates 42°45′00″N 70°53′54″W / 42.75000°N 70.89833°W / 42.75000; -70.89833Coordinates: 42°45′00″N 70°53′54″W / 42.75000°N 70.89833°W / 42.75000; -70.89833
Information
Type Private, boarding
Established 1763
Headmaster Peter H. Quimby '85, Ph.D.
Enrollment 400
Average class size 12
Student to teacher ratio 5:1
Campus 450 acres (1.8 km2)
Color(s) Cardinal and White         
Athletics conference Independent School League
Mascot Governors, Red Dogs (Lacrosse)
Rival Brooks School
Average SAT scores (2011) 2150
Endowment $100 million
Tuition Boarding: $53,400, Day: $42,400 in 2014-2015
Website

The Governor's Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy) is a highly selective, co-educational, independent boarding preparatory school for grades 9–12 located on 450 acres (1.8 km2) in the village of Byfield, Massachusetts, United States (town of Newbury), 33 miles (53 km) north of Boston. The Academy enrolls approximately 400 students in grades nine through twelve, 70% of whom are boarders. The school was established in 1763 and is the oldest continuously operating independent boarding school in the United States.

The school was founded two years after the death of William Dummer, who funded it in his will. Dummer had been lieutenant governor and acting governor of Massachusetts for many years, and led the colony through a difficult period in the earlier 18th century: fighting off forays by French and Indians during what became known as Dummer's War in the 1720s. He also served as an early overseer of Harvard College. He was from a prominent colonial family with his brother Jeremiah Dummer having been a principal founding benefactor of the College of New Haven which later became Yale University. As the Boston Latin School only accepted students from the city of Boston, the need arose for schools in more outlying areas to prepare students for college—the only ones existing at that time in New England being Harvard and Yale; Brown and Dartmouth were founded a few years afterward. In that context, the Dummer Charity School or Dummer Grammar School commenced operation in 1763 pursuant to the will of Governor Dummer with Samuel Moody as its first headmaster. In 1782, the Dummer school was officially incorporated as the Dummer Academy, whose graduates in this era comprised approximately 25% of the undergraduate student body at Harvard. It should be noted, however, that most children in this era were home-schooled with pre-college education ending around the age of 14; with youths thereafter going on to college or entering the workforce. Thus most college freshmen tended to be the age of high school freshmen today.


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