St. Andrew's School

::For the school in Brunei, see St. Andrew's School Brunei

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Brunei - St. Andrew's School Brunei

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St. Andrew's School is a boarding school located in Middletown, Delaware. It currently is coeducational and serving grades nine through twelve.

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Boarding school - Middletown, Delaware - Coeducational

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St. Andrew's was founded in 1929 as a small Episcopalian preparatory school. Originally only admitting young men, the school has grown to about 280 students of all races and both sexes. The school has an endowment of about 170 million dollars, making it the second wealthiest school per capita in the country.

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1929 - Episcopalian - Preparatory school

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While the school has become more secular in nature, it still retains much of its Episcopal traditions. The campus remains largely free of drugs and other common teen problems. Academically, St. Andrew's is often considered to be one of the finest schools in the country. It offers an average class size of eleven and state of the art facilities, including a new Arts center built in 2004. While the school is academically challenging in all disciplines, it is especially known for its English department headed up by Dr. John Austin and politically liberal faculty.

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The current Headmaster is Tad Roach who graduated from Williams College.

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St. Andrew's, while sending students to a variety of universities, is most notably a feeder school for small liberal arts colleges, sending out of a class of 76 students, five to Williams College and seven to Davidson. The class of 2005 also graduated quite a few who attend schools in the Ivy League, including two to Columbia University, five to the University of Pennsylvania, three to Princeton, one to Yale, one to Cornell, one to Dartmouth and one to Brown.

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Williams College - Davidson - Columbia University - University of Pennsylvania - Princeton - Yale - Cornell - Dartmouth - Brown

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