Middlesex School

Middlesex School is an independent secondary school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1901 by Frederick Winsor, who headed the school until 1937. Winsor set up a National Scholarship Program for the school, the first of its kind for a secondary school. In 1974 it became co-educational.

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Concord, Massachusetts - Scholarship

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The school was named for the county Middlesex in which it stands, also inspired by the patriotic poem "Paul Revere's Ride": "So, Revere?s ?cry of alarm/ To every Middlesex village and farm,/ A cry of defiance and not of fear".

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Middlesex - Paul Revere's Ride

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The campus was designed by Olmsted Brothers, and Peabody and Stearns were the architects used for the main buildings. A recent addtion is the Clay Centennial Center, completed in 2003, which hosts science and math classes as well as an observatory with an 18-inch research grade telescope.

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Olmsted Brothers - Peabody and Stearns - Observatory

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The school is a member of the famed Independent School League.

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