St. Johnsbury Academy

St. Johnsbury Academy is a coeducational boarding and day school enrolling students in grades 9–12 and a postgraduate year in northeastern Vermont. The Academy was founded in 1842. The Academy’s campus is situated on 150 acres in a small New England town. There are six academic buildings including a fine arts center and technical education building, a large, modern library, an auditorium, nine dormitories, a gym and field house complex and a recently opened restaurant run by our own culinary students.

St. Johnsbury Academy’s program is designed to provide maximum flexibility so that a student may elect a course of study that meets his or her needs. The comprehensive curriculum includes over 220 courses, including twenty Advanced Placement sections. Other courses are offered at basic, standard, and accelerated levels. Eleven in-depth technical offerings and nearly forty arts courses round out the curriculum. In addition to four foreign languages, the Academy also offers an extensive English as a Second Language Program.

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Academic and Sports Facilities

Carl Ranger Hall houses thirteen classrooms and the department’s writing lab, containing twenty-five PCs. Streeter Hall is the home to the science and technology departments. Newell Hall provides the foreign language department with extensive facilities for instruction, including two Tandberg computerized language learning systems. The Charles Hosmer Morse Center for the Arts provides extraordinary facilities, consisting of six fine-arts studios and an art gallery, a print and photography studio, two music performance studios with five practice rooms, a dance studio, and a 200-seat black box theater. The Mayo Center provides space for the Grace Stuart Orcutt library (20,000 volumes).

Alumni Memorial Gymnasium contains the basketball court, seating for 1,250. The Academy’s field house contains three multipurpose tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts; a 1∕12-mile indoor track; and a 25-yard, 6-lane indoor swimming pool. The building also provides a weight room with a Universal Gym, nine Nautilus stations, and extensive free-weight and aerobics equipment. A 400-meter all-weather track was completed in 1996.

Dormitories and School Residences

The Academy has nine dormitories. Faculty members reside in each dorm. The student-faculty ratio in the dorms is 6:1. Boarding students care for their own rooms. Students have access to telephones and TV in common areas in the dormitories.

Student population

Boys and Girls

Grades

Boarding and Day 9-12

Number of students in the school

Approximately 900 students (140 international)

Teacher/Student ratio

1:8

ESL programs

Yes, school year and summer program.

Colleges and universities attended by St. Johnsbury students

• Bates, Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Chicago, College of the Holy Cross, Cornell, Dickinson, Dartmouth, George Washington, Georgetown, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, RIT, Rhode Island School of Design, Stanford, Swarthmore, Tufts, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic and the Universities of Denver, Miami, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania, Saint Andrews, Toronto, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Tuition

Boarding: approx. $38,500

Starting Dates

• Fall Semester: Late August
• Spring Semester: Early January

Other Services Offered

• Airport greeting and transfer service
• Orientation Service upon arrival
• Assistance in acquiring books and material
• Help with holiday accommodation
• Help with travel services during holidays
• Academic progress reports
• Social progress reports

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Extracurricular activities

• Sports: Varsity and junior varsity teams for boys are organized in baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, soccer, and wrestling; there are also freshman teams in football, basketball, and soccer. Girls’ varsity and junior varsity teams are formed in basketball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, and field hockey. There is also interscholastic competition in cross-country, tennis, ice hockey, golf, and track and field for boys and in golf, tennis, gymnastics, lacrosse, and track and field for girls. Nordic/alpine skiing and ultimate frisbee are offered on a coeducational basis. In addition, intramural sports are offered throughout the year. Tennis, skiing, golf, hiking, canoeing, riding, mountain climbing, and camping are among the recreational sports and activities available.

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Contact Info

Closest international and local airports

• Boston, MA,
• Burlington, VT
• Manchester, NH