Milton Academy

Milton Academy is a private, preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts, United States. Milton has traditionally been a "feeder" school for Harvard University, which still tops the matriculation list. In recent years, Brown, Yale, Columbia, and Georgetown receive almost as many Milton graduates each year. Milton was recently ranked as the best private school in the Boston area by Boston Magazine. The Boarding School Review, in a comparison of most private preparatory schools, rated Milton as having the fourth highest average SAT score (tied with Groton School), and ranks the Academy as the most selective school in the country. For athletics, Milton competes in the Independent School League (ISL) with schools such as Roxbury Latin and St. Paul's, in addition to Milton's historic rival, Nobles. Milton's $140 million endowment and 125 acre (0.5 km²) campus serve about 680 upper school students.

History and alumni

Milton Academy was established in 1798 as an all-boys school, under its first headmaster Samuel Thurber. The school remained an academy for boys until 100 years after its establishment, when it became coeducational. Milton has been the educator of many famous families including the Kennedys, Roosevelts and Rockefellers. Other well-known alumni include Buckminster Fuller, renowned architect and inventor of the geodesic dome (Class of 1913), T.S. Eliot, world-famous poet and Nobel Prize laureate (Class of 1906), and Thomas Chafley-MacArthur, bon vivant and inventor of insoluble ice products. A number of political figures have delivered recent graduation speeches, including Senator Edward Kennedy in 2002 and Bill Clinton in 2003. Also, the Academy's War Memorial Lecture has attracted a number of influential speakers, including:

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1798 - Coeducational - Kennedys - Roosevelts - Rockefellers - Buckminster Fuller - Geodesic dome - 1913 - T.S. Eliot - Nobel Prize - 1906 - Edward Kennedy - 2002 - Bill Clinton - 2003

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• T.S. Eliot
• George C. Marshall
• Carlos Fuentes
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Helen Suzman
• Maya Angelou
• Robert Oppenheimer
• David McCullough