Admission

850 Boarding, 300 Day

*numbers reflect a a typical year

Need-Blind Admission

Andover is one of the few independent schools to meet 100 percent of each student’s demonstrated financial need—and we meet that need with grants (essentially scholarships), not loans.

A Day in the Life

What’s Andover really like? Hear from our students and follow their typical days.

Big Blue and You—Prepare for Takeoff!

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Academics

To prepare its students for life in the wider world, Phillips Academy offers a liberal arts education. Oriented to all aspects of human experience, liberal arts education affirms that knowledge is intrinsically good and denies that education terminates with technical skill or professional success. Resisting specialization in favor of breadth, it initiates students into connected fields of understanding and prepares them to lead lives characterized by learning and understanding, responsibility and freedom.

The practice of responsibility and freedom demands that citizens have dispositions of the critical mind to recognize fact and valid argument and to comprehend the implications of the knowledge they produce and the things they create. It requires that citizens act against intolerance and injustice and build communities conducive to human flourishing. To help students become such citizens, Phillips Academy seeks to prepare graduates who are educated broadly, discerning of ideologies, and committed to the public good.

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Course of Study

Dive deeper into our academic curriculum and available courses.

Academic Departments & Divisions

With 20 academic departments and divisions, Andover students can explore all of their intellectual curiosities.

A Place to Call Home

Andover is a vibrant, inclusive, and intentionally diverse community. Some of the greatest lessons our students learn take place outside of the classroom. On the field, at the dinner table, in the common room—your world is what you make it at Andover.

No matter where you’re from or where you live while attending Andover, everyone is part of the Big Blue family. So start that club and try out for the talent show and go downtown for ice cream after a long study session. Andover will be your home away from home.

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Clusters

Campus is arranged into five residential neighborhoods called clusters to which every student belongs to.

Big. Blue. Nice.

Andover fosters bold, thoughtful, and engaged student leadership.

Go Big Blue!

Teamwork, a non sibi (not for self) mindset, and dedication define Andover athletics. Our student-athletes work hard to develop strong technical and tactical skills with a fierce competitive edge. But they also approach the playing field as yet another “classroom” for learning—about themselves and others, about humility and accountability, and about camaraderie and sportsmanship.

Andover offers 70+ interscholastic teams in 23 different sports. Students can also participate in intramural options each season like soccer, basketball, and ultimate as well as wellness activities like dance and yoga.

All About Athletics

Teams

With 70+ teams in 23 sports, there's a spot for every athlete at Andover.

Pan Athletic Center

The 70,000-square-foot structure houses a swimming and diving complex, dance studios, wrestling facilities, and the Athletics Hall of Honor.

Center Stage

Through our three departments—Music, Art, and Theatre & Dance—we offer the opportunity for all students to express themselves. Find your medium and your mentors in the studio, on the stage, and amongst your peers. We can’t wait to see what you create.

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