Noble and Greenough School

Noble and Greenough School
Spes Sibi Quisque — Virgil in Aeneid "Each person finds hope within himself or herself."
Address
10 Campus Drive Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 United States
Information
Type	Private, Day & Boarding, College-prep
Religious affiliation(s)	Nonsectarian
Established	1866
Founder	George Washington Copp Noble
Headmaster	Bob Henderson
Faculty	139
Grades	7-12
Gender	Coeducational
Number of students	~603
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Navy Blue and White
Athletics conference	ISL
Mascot	Bulldog
Newspaper	The Nobleman
Website	www.nobles.edu

The Noble and Greenough School, commonly known as Nobles, is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and five-day boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. It is located near Boston on a 187-acre (0.76 km²) campus that borders the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts. The current enrollment of 603 students includes a balance of boys and girls. The boarding program hosts 45 students who live on campus five days a week. The majority of students are from Massachusetts, neighboring states and occasionally from abroad. After graduation, all members of the senior class go on to accredited four-year colleges and universities. In 2010, Nobles was ranked as the 18th best prep school in the United States by Forbes. Nobles has 95 faculty members, with a student to faculty ratio of approximately 6:1. The average class size is 12.5. Tuition for the 2013-2014 academic year is $42,600 for day students and $48,400 for 5-day boarding students. Nobles' historic athletic rival is Milton Academy.

Nobles was founded in 1866 by George Washington Copp Noble, in Boston, Massachusetts, as an all-boys preparatory school for Harvard University. It became known as Noble & Greenough in 1892. During World War I, the school merged with Boston-based Volkman School, which had faced a drastically declining student population due to the headmaster's German origins. There is a monument to the Volkman School on the Nobles campus. In 1922, the school moved from Boston to its current location in Dedham. The property hsd been a family's estate. The grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The school discontined the lower school at this time, though the lower school still operates today as the Dexter School. In 1975, Nobles admitted girls.

Noble and Greenough School includes grades 7-12. Students in grade 12 are known as members of Class I, this continues on down to seventh grade students who are known as members of Class VI, or more informally as the "sixies." The eighth grade students, members of class V, are also informally known as "fifthies", The Middle school is located in the Pratt Middle School building. The Upper School, grades 9-12, is in the main building, known as the Shattuck Schoolhouse.