The Putney School at a Glance
CampusYear founded: 1935Size: 500 rural acres Location: Scenic Southern Vermont, 10 miles to Brattleboro, close to major Green Mountain ski areas, 115 miles to Boston and 213 miles to New York City Facilities: 9 dorms (4 boys, 5 girls), 34 on campus residences/apartments 32 classrooms, visual & performing arts center, dining hall, school store, infirmary, observatory, dairy farm, horse barn, 2 greenhouses, 6 gardens 40 Km Cross Country Skiing trails, 3 athletic fields, weight room, boat house School PopulationDirector: Emily JonesAdministrators: 7 Staff: 40 Faculty: 35 full time, 24 part time/adjunct Faculty/Student Ratio: 1:6 Average Class Size: 9-15 Students Student Enrollment: 226 - 55% Girls, 45% Boys Boarding Students: 162 Day Students: 64 Geographic Distribution: 23 States, 15 Countries Diversity Ratio: 14% American Minority, 21% International Financial Aid Recipients: 44% Academic ProgramCourses: Arts, English, Modern Languages, History, Library, Mathematics, Sciences, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Astronomy, Independent StudyCollege Placement: During the past four years, Putney graduates have attended such colleges as Alfred, Amherst, Antioch, Art Institute of Chicago, Bard, Bates, Beloit, Bennington, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Carnegie Mellon, Clark, Colorado College, Cornell, Dartmouth, Earlham, Eugene Lang, Evergreen State, Grinnell, Hampshire, Harvard, Kenyon, LAMDA, Lawrence, Lewis and Clark, Macalester, Marlboro, McGill, MICA, MIT, Mount Allison, Mount Holyoke, New College (Florida), New England Culinary Institute, New York University, Oberlin, Prescott, Reed, Rhode Island School of Design, Saint John's, Sarah Lawrence, Scripps, Skidmore, Smith, Spelman, Stanford, Tufts, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Vermont, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Warren Wilson, Wesleyan, Wellesley, Whitman and Willamette. Alumni: 3,971 FinancialEnrollment CostBoarding Student - $41,100*, Day Student - $26,900 * Tuition covers @ 70% of the cost of a Putney education Philanthropic Support Annual Fund '07-'08: $790,712 Endowment: $20 million FarmAward Winning Milking Cows, Cattle, Oxen, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, Turkeys, Laying Hens Special Programs/
Project Week, Land Use, Farm Semester, Art Semester, Community Service, Assembly, Senior Exhibitions, Sunday Evening Meeting, Long Spring |
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