Middlesex School

Middlesex School
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°30′2.3″N 71°22′10.2″W
Information
School type	Private, boarding, coeducational
Motto	Fides, Veritas, Labor
Established	1901
Head of school	Kathleen C. Giles
Faculty	~85
Enrollment	~375
Average class size	12
Student to teacher ratio	1:5
Campus size	350 acres (1.4 km2)
Campus type	Small town
Color(s)	Cardinal and Black
Mascot	Zebra
Average SAT scores	2050
Newspaper	The Anvil
Endowment	$160 million
Tuition	$48,390 (boarder), $38,710(day student)
Website	http://mxschool.edu/

Clay Centennial Center, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts

Middlesex School is an independent secondary school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1901 by a Roxbury Latin School alumnus, 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. The school is a member of the Independent School League and is one of five schools collectively known as St. Grottlesex.

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'

The campus was designed by Olmsted Brothers, and Peabody and Stearns were the architects used for the main buildings. A recent addition 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.

In 2011-12 boarding students come from 33 states and 14 countries with 68% of all boarders residing outside of Massachusetts. The School is highly selective, with 19 percent of applicants chosen from over 1000 applicants for entry in September 2011. Over 30 percent of students received financial aid from a $4.1 million financial aid budget.

Over the past six years, 15 or more Middlesex students have matriculated at each of the following colleges and universities: Boston College, Brown University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, and Tufts University.

Notable alumni

• Conrad Aiken (1899–1973) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet, wrote "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1943)
• Steve Carell (born 1962) - actor and comedian (The Office, The Daily Show, The 40-year-old Virgin)
• Joseph S. Clark, Jr. (1901–1990) - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and mayor of Philadelphia
• James L. Halperin (born 1952) - numismatist and author (The Truth Machine)
• William Hurt (born 1950) - Academy Award-winning actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
• Mills Lane (Born 1937) - Nevada Judge, D.A, TV personality, professional boxing referee
• [Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.] - Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
• Robin Moore (born 1925) - writer who authored the lyrics of "Ballad of the Green Berets" and co-creator of the comic strip "Tales of the Green Beret"
• Bill Richardson (born 1947) - Governor of New Mexico and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
• Jessica Tuck (born 1963) - Actress (One Life to Live, Judging Amy, True Blood)
• Matthew Von Ertfelda (born 1969) - runner-up contestant on the TV show "Survivor: The Amazon"
• William Weld (born 1945) - Governor of Massachusetts
• Bret Stephens (born 1973) - foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal and deputy editorial page editor
• Kevin Systrom - founder of Instagram and one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30
• Cass Sunstein - legal scholar, head of President Obama's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

External links

• Middlesex School Website
• Middlesex School Admissions Video on SchoolFair.tv
• Profi--MiddlesexAdm (talk) 14:12, 22 December 2011 (UTC)le on Boarding School Review.com
• Biography of Frederick Winsor
• Middlesex Graduates for Estabrook Homepage
• Two Middlesex Alumnae Protest Development of Estabrook
• Middlesex School Summer Arts Website