美國寄宿學校排名Top20

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1. Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Location: Exeter, New Hampshire

Endowment: $1.15 billion

Acceptance rate: 19%

Enrollment: 1,085

At Phillips Exeter Academy, all classes are taught seminar-style, with students gathered around circular tables. The strategy, known as the Harkness method, originated at Exeter and is the school's signature — and students love it. According to the school, pupils come to class prepared and ready to discuss, and engage with the material on a deeper level than could be achieved through traditional lectures.

Exeter counts Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg among its notable alumni.

2. Phillips Academy Andover

Phillips Academy

Location: Andover, Massachusetts

Endowment: $1 billion

Acceptance rate: 13%

Enrollment: 1,141

A total of 835 students board at Phillips Academy Andover, the oldest incorporated boarding school in the US, now in its 238th year. The school offers students a rigorous academic curriculum — and access to two on-campus museums — in preparation for college. Over the last three years, dozens of graduates went on to attend all eight Ivy League schools with the most at UPenn, Harvard, and Yale. Former US Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are alumni.

3. St. Paul's School

St. Paul's School 

Location: Concord, New Hampshire

Endowment: $551 million

Acceptance rate: 16%

Enrollment: 541

During their time at St. Paul's School, students engage with class material through hands-on assignments and collaborative projects, including experimentation in laboratories and exploration outside the classroom. Graduates of St. Paul's then go on to top-tier universities, with Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, and Harvard included as some of the most popular choices over the past four years.

4. Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts

Endowment: $532 million

Acceptance rate: 17%

Enrollment: 638

Deerfield Academy provides 35% of its student body with $8 million in financial aid annually. In addition to participating academically, students are required to be involved in a cocurricular activity like community service, dance, theater, or sports. More than one-fourth of Deerfield's 330-acre campus is comprised of athletic fields, tennis courts, a fitness center, and a 5,900-square-foot boathouse along the Connecticut River.

5. Groton School

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Location: Groton, Massachusetts

Endowment: $350 million

Acceptance rate: 12%

Enrollment: 381

At Groton, students must take at least five full-credit courses per semester, including classes in expository writing, ethics, and foreign language. More than just academics, Groton also prioritizes its sense of community, a value emphasized by traditions such as morning Chapel Talk, daily check-ins, surprise holidays, and the school birthday dinner.

6. The Lawrenceville School

The Lawrenceville School

Location: Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Endowment: $320 million

Acceptance rate: 20%

Enrollment: 816

The Lawrenceville School is defined by its House System: a living situation for boarders and day students where each of the 18 dormitories represents a subcommunity informed by grade and gender. The houses often compete for academic and athletic honors and have individual traditions like sports games and community-service events. Lawrenceville is committed to its Green Campus Initiative, which includes a 30-acre solar farm that covers 90% of the school's energy needs.

7. Milton Academy

Milton Academy

Location: Milton, Massachusetts

Endowment: $268 million

Acceptance rate: 19%

Enrollment: 700

Students at Milton Academy narrow down their schedules from a wide range of courses, choosing between everything from Latin literature to computer programming to jazz improvisation. Outside the classroom, students can also participate in community-service and outdoor programs like rock climbing, kayaking, and camping.

8. Middlesex School

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Location: Concord, Massachusetts

Endowment: $244 million

Acceptance rate: 18%

Enrollment: 384

The Middlesex campus was designed by the famed Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm and is just 20 miles outside Boston, among some of the country's most historic towns. The school balances personal exploration and demanding academics — an Introduction to Mindfulness course that teaches pupils how to reduce stress and improve relationships is required for all new students. Notable alumni include former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and Kevin Systrom, the cofounder of Instagram.

9. The Hotchkiss School

The Hotchkiss School

Location: Lakeville, Connecticut

Endowment: $362 million

Acceptance rate: 21%

Enrollment: 598

Students at The Hotchkiss School hail from all over — 35 states and 34 countries, in fact — and can venture back into the world for a semester abroad in France, Italy, China, Spain, or one of Hotchkiss' domestic destinations. During school breaks, students can also participate in shorter, faculty-led tours of places such as Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, Kenya, and elsewhere.

10. Choate Rosemary Hall

Choate Rosemary Hall

Location: Wallingford, Connecticut

Endowment: $318 million

Acceptance rate: 23%

Enrollment: 865

Choate Rosemary Hall celebrated its 125th anniversary last year by ramping up its commitment to innovation. The school, which requires its students to bring iPads to class, dedicated a new mathematics and computer-science building that's LEED Gold-certified and home to Choate's award-winning Robotics Team and i.d.Lab — a tech-packed facility for creative thinking and innovation. There's also the Kohler Environmental Center, where juniors and seniors can enroll in the yearlong Environmental Immersion Program that combines sustainable living, study, and independent research.

11. Peddie School

Peddie School

Location: Hightstown, New Jersey

Endowment: $326 million

Acceptance rate: 22%

Enrollment: 542

An average class size of 12 and a 6-to-1 student-teacher ratio allows Peddie School to give each student individual attention and academic support. It pays off: The most popular college destinations among recent Peddie graduates include prestigious schools like New York University, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and Cornell.

12. The Thacher School

The Thacher School

Location: Ojai, California

Endowment: $138 million

Acceptance rate: 12%

Enrollment: 250

The Thacher School is in California’s serene Ojai Valley where the mountains run east to west and hiking and horseback riding are common outdoor activities for students and faculty. The school aims to teach its student body — 90% of whom are boarders — the value of a disciplined education in congruence with adventures in the wilderness.

13. The Hockaday School

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Location: Dallas, Texas

Endowment: $145 million

Acceptance rate: 25%

Enrollment: 1,098

Courses at The Hockaday School are intensely rigorous, including classes that do not carry the specific "Advanced Placement" designation. There's no shortage of official AP classes at the all-girls school, however, with choices including calculus, human geography, and biology. A full 93% of students who take the corresponding exams earn a 3 or higher.

14. The Taft School

The Taft School

Location: Watertown, Connecticut

Endowment: $236 million

Acceptance rate: 21%

Enrollment: 594

The Taft School's volunteer program, sustainability initiatives, and Center for Global Leadership and Service support the school's motto: "Not be served but to serve." Students have the opportunity to graduate with a "Service Diploma," which asserts a second-language proficiency and community-service experiences abroad. In the last five years, graduates matriculated to top schools, including George Washington University, Georgetown, and Cornell.

15. St. Albans School

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Location: Washington, DC

Endowment: $60 million

Acceptance rate: 25%

Enrollment: 575

St. Albans students excel academically, and the school has graduated 45 National Merit semifinalists since 2007 and 21 Presidential Scholars in its history. The all-boys school also partners with the National Cathedral School for girls to offer an array of coeducational opportunities, including art and drama programs, select sports, and the 160-voice Chorale.

16. Cate School

Cate School

Location: Carpinteria, California

Endowment: $75 million

Acceptance rate: 14%

Enrollment: 270

The vigorous academic courses at Cate School are designed to foster students' self-knowledge and the village-like campus — known as the Mesa — encourages students to take advantage of the nearby Los Padres National Forest and Pacific Ocean for outdoor learning and leisure activities. Cate School's selectivity could be explained by its commitment to diversity: The student body is comprised of 42% students of color from 31 states and 17 countries.

17. The Loomis Chaffee School

Loomis Chaffee School

Location: Windsor, Connecticut

Endowment: $180 million

Acceptance rate: 27%

Enrollment: 650

Above all, The Loomis Chaffee School is committed to providing top-notch academics and shaping students into their best selves. To enhance the academic experience, the school offers writing workshops, study-abroad opportunities, guided-research projects, and experiential-learning programs such as internships, volunteer work, and scholarly competitions.

18. Concord Academy

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Location: Concord, Massachusetts

Endowment: $56 million

Acceptance rate: 28%

Enrollment: 382

Though Concord Academy enrolls more day students than boarders, the school has a strong living-learning community. Students from every grade live together in six historic family homes and also have the option for homestays with day students' families. Concord values hard work over competition, calling itself a "no prize" school that eschews class rank and academic awards.

19. St. Andrew's School, Delaware

St. Andrew's School (DE)

Location: Middletown, Delaware

Endowment: $195 million

Acceptance rate: 28%

Enrollment: 310

Technology is intertwined with the curriculum at St. Andrew's School. Students use blogs to document their progress in physics, musicians send recordings to their instructors for feedback, and teachers keep in touch with their pupils through learning-management software.

St. Andrew's students also gain entrance to elite colleges. New York University, Wesleyan University, and Davidson College topped the list of the most popular choices from the last four years.

20. St. George's School

St. George's School

Location: Newport, Rhode Island

Endowment: $138 million

Acceptance rate: 25%

Enrollment: 365

In addition to lively academic discussion and debate in the classroom, St. George's School emphasizes experiential learning in the local community and around the world. Every semester the seaside Episcopal school sends students on one leg of a transatlantic voyage in a 69-foot marine-research vessel called Geronimo, where they get a firsthand education in marine biology.