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Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school. It educates roughly 1,100 boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, as well as postgraduate students.
After spending three years at Trinity High School, Bike is now dribbling the basketball for Phillips Exeter Academy, a Class A program in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC).
Private schools retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students for tuition, rather than relying on taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be eligible for a scholarship, lowering this tuition fee, dependent on a student's talents or abilities (e ...
Phillips Academy's traditional rival is Phillips Exeter Academy, which was established three years later in Exeter, New Hampshire, by Samuel Phillips' uncle John Phillips. Andover and Exeter's sports teams have played each other since 1861, [ 14 ] and the football teams have met nearly every year since 1878, making Andover-Exeter one of the ...
That’s what Phillips Exeter Academy student Achyuta Rajaram aimed to find out this past year, which earned him the top prize at the recent 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search. The 17-year-old ...
Mar. 13—A Phillips Exeter Academy student has earned the $250,000 prize in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search, finishing first among 40 finalists in the nation's oldest and most ...
The first library at Phillips Exeter Academy was a single small room. A member of the class of 1833 remembered it as containing "old sermons and some history, scarcely ever read". [4] Even as late as 1905 the library had only two rooms and 2,000 volumes. Exeter Library atrium with crossbeams above and circular staircase below
Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code [176] Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist; Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate) Nancy Jo Sales (1982) – journalist; author; Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter