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World's Top 100 Boarding Schools

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Rank Boarding Schools Country
1 - 5 Groton School US
1 - 5 Lawrenceville School US
1 - 5 Phillips Academy Andover US
1 - 5 Phillips Exeter Academy US
1 - 5 Westminster School London UK
5 - 10 Hotchkiss School US
5 - 10 Milton Academy US
5 - 10 Noble and Greenough School US
5 - 10 St. Paul's School US
5 - 10 St. Paul's School London UK
10 - 20 Belmont Hill School US
10 - 20 Cate School US
10 - 20 Choate Rosemary Hall US
10 - 20 Deerfield Academy US
10 - 20 Eton College UK
10 - 20 Middlesex School US
10 - 20 St. Albans School US
10 - 20 Thacher School US
10 - 20 Winchester College UK
10 - 20 Wycombe Abbey School UK
20 - 30 Cheltenham Ladies' College UK
20 - 30 Concord Academy US
20 - 30 Peddie School US
20 - 30 Sevenoaks School UK
20 - 30 St. Andrew's School US
20 - 30 St. Mary's School Ascot UK
20 - 30 St. Swithun's School UK
20 - 30 Taft School US
20 - 30 Tonbridge School UK
20 - 30 Upper Canada College Canada
30 - 40 Abingdon School UK
30 - 40 Badminton School UK
30 - 40 Benenden School UK
30 - 40 Blair Academy US
30 - 40 Brighton College UK
30 - 40 Harrow School UK
30 - 40 Hill School US
30 - 40 Loomis Chaffee School US
30 - 40 St. Mark's School US
30 - 40 Webb Schools US
40 - 50 Canford School UK
40 - 50 Charterhouse School UK
40 - 50 Headington School UK
40 - 50 Hun School of Princeton US
40 - 50 Kent School US
40 - 50 Northfield Mount Hermon School US
40 - 50 Radley College UK
40 - 50 Rugby School UK
40 - 50 St. George's School US
40 - 50 St. Mary's School Caln UK
50 - 60 Cranbrook Schools US
50 - 60 Downe House School UK
50 - 60 Dulwich College UK
50 - 60 Emma Willard School US
50 - 60 Georgetown Preparatory School US
50 - 60 Havergal College Canada
50 - 60 Hockaday School US
50 - 60 Mercersburg Academy US
50 - 60 Oundle School UK
50 - 60 Shady Side Academy US
60 - 70 Appleby College Canada
60 - 70 Branksome Hall Canada
60 - 70 Fettes College UK
60 - 70 Malvern College UK
60 - 70 McDonogh School US
60 - 70 Monmouth School UK
60 - 70 Robert Louis Stevenson School US
60 - 70 Santa Catalina School US
50 - 60 St. George's School Vancouver Canada
60- 70 Tabor Academy US
70 - 80 Ashbury College Canada
70 - 80 Asheville School US
70 - 80 Bishop Strachan School Canada
70 - 80 Christ's Hospital UK
70 - 80 Culver Academies US
70 - 80 Leys School UK
70 - 80 Marlbrough College UK
70 - 80 Miss Porter's School US
70 - 80 Shrewsbury School UK
70 - 80 St. Stephen's Episcopal School US
80 - 90 Badminton School UK
80 - 90 Canterbury School US
80 - 90 Cushing Academy US
80 - 90 Fountain Valley School of Colorado US
80 - 90 Hackley School US
80 - 90 Lawrence Academy US
80 - 90 Masters School UK
80 - 90 Oregon Episcopal School US
80 - 90 Trinity-Pawling School US
80 - 90 Wyoming Seminary US
90 - 100 Dana Hall School US
90 - 100 Ethel Walker School US
90 - 100 Madeira School US
90 - 100 Oakham School UK
90 - 100 Ridley College Canada
90 - 100 Shawnigan Lake School Canada
90 - 100 St. Michael's University School Canada
90 - 100 Westminster School US
90 - 100 Woodberry Forest School US
90 - 100 Worcester Academy US

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They have contacts at most of the major universities and feel perfectly comfortable picking up the phone and advocating for a student to get accepted…

Students at Groton tend to be either very smart, very rich, or both (because some people just seem to have it all)…

Harvard student

Groton School

At Princeton, I think a lot of people feel lost because they've never really had failure before but Lawrenceville gave me a healthy dose of it…

Princeton student

Lawrenceville School

Andover is more interested in graduating people who will contribute to society than they are in graduating glorified test-taking machines…

Columbia student

Phillips Academy Andover

At Eton, while you are taught to tick the boxes, this is merely a preliminary measure: the emphasis is…

Oxford student

Eton College

Compared to public schools and most other private schools, college counseling at Choate is…

Harvard student

Choate Rosemary Hall

Rigorous academic training for entrance to top-level academic universities. This can be both good and bad…

Oxford student

Perse School Cambridge

I had an outside college counselor assist me…because I felt that the Dalton counselor and I did not get along…

Yale student

Dalton School

Advantage of being taught at Westminster was that the teachers were very aware of any changes in the syllabus for exams, due to the fact that many of them…

Teaching is not geared simply to passing public exams but to cultivating intellect. I think this was a great help when it came to applying to Oxford.…

Cambridge student

Winchester College

College counselors are very well connected and have relationships with admissions officers at…

Extraordinarily successful college counseling program. Huge percentages of students attend Ivy League…

Harvard student

Trinity School

Really improved is with their practice interviews: many of the teachers have Oxbridge…

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Manchester Grammar School

Horace Mann is on par with any high school in the county, and possibly the world…

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Horace Mann School

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