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Encyclopedia > St. Mark's School
St Mark's School
Motto Age Quod Agis (Do What You Do)
Established 1865
Type Private High School, boarding
Principal John Warren '74
Students 325 (2004-05)
Location Southboro, Massachusetts,, USA
Campus Suburban
Colors Blue and White
Mascot Winged Lion
Newspaper The St. Marker
Website [1]
For the school in Dallas, see St. Mark's School of Texas.

St. Mark’s School is a coeducational, Episcopal, preparatory school, situated on 250 acres in Southborough, Massachusetts, 25 miles from Boston. It is a member of the Independent School League, and one of five schools collectively termed St. Grottlesex. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Southborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Blue (from Old High German blao shining) is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength (about 470 nm) of the three primary colors. ... Alternate meanings: White (disambiguation) White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The St. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... This article is about the Episcopal Church in the United States. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... Southborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Boston redirects here. ... The Independent School League (ISL) is composed of sixteen prestigious New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. ... Refers to the elite group of American boarding schools including Groton, St. ...


It was founded in 1865 as an all-boys' school by Joseph Burnett, a wealthy native of Southborough who developed and marketed the world-famous Burnett Vanilla Extract[2]. The school has longstanding ties to the Episcopal Church. In 1977 it merged with the Southborough School for girls to form a larger (but still small) co-educational boarding school. 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... This article is about the Episcopal Church in the United States. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...


The School’s faculty, 65 in number, lead 325 boarding and day students through a rigorous curriculum and a full program of co-curricular activities. Class size averages 10, with a student-faculty ratio of 5:1. Each department offers honors and advanced placement sections (numbering 24 in total, more than any other school in the ISL).


Throughout its 140-year history, St. Mark's has maintained a fierce rivalry with the Groton School, of Groton, Massachusetts, culminating in Groton Night in early November. The two schools have clashed in a football game played every November for more than 100 years in which the winning school receives a racoon fur coat that has been passed down through the years. Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 350 boys and girls, from the eighth (Second Form) through twelfth grades (Sixth Form). ...   Settled: 1655 â€“ Incorporated: 1655 Zip Code(s): 01450 â€“ Area Code(s): 351 / 978 Official website: http://www. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...


John Warren ’74, a senior administrator at Milton Academy and a former member of the St. Mark's Board of Trustees, was appointed head of school in November 2005, succeeding Tony and Elsa Hill the following July. Milton Academy is a private, preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts. ...

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History

Joseph Burnett, the school’s founder, was the father of six boys, the eldest of whom was a student at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Henry Coit, the first rector of St. Paul's – itself an all-boarding private school founded a decade prior – suggested Burnett create a similar school in Massachusetts, one that Burnett’s other five boys could call home. St. ... Location in Merrimack County, New Hampshire Coordinates: Country United States State New Hampshire County Merrimack County Incorporated 1733  - City Manager Thomas J. Aspell, Jr. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,350 sq mi (24,217 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 4. ...


Following St. Mark's founding by Mr. Burnett, the school's second headmaster, Dr. William Greenough Thayer, led the school through significant expansion as it became one of the pre-eminent New England boarding schools and developed a numerically small but politically and economically significant national constituency of loyal alumni. Thayer was headmaster of St. Mark's for over three decades, and during the course of his career he became one of the most famous private school educators in the United States. He retired in 1929 after having indelibly stamped St. Mark's with his own vision of boarding school education in America.


St. Mark’s has changed much in appearance since its founding, although Headmaster Thayer would feel much at home, despite major improvements in the intervening years. In Burnett's time the school in its entirety was made up of one structure—a square, two-story house painted yellow with green blinds. That building and others from those early days, including a large schoolroom and dormitory wing built in 1866–1867, were gradually demolished during the Thayer period in the 1890s, to make way for the brick and Tudor-styled structures that now grace the school’s 250-acre campus. To this day, St. Mark’s continues to add new facilities for its students—a new athletic center, dormitory, and performing arts center all within the last twenty years.


Though the means by which faculty can educate students has changed with advances in technology and such, St. Mark’s still looks to its longtime Latin motto as an inspiration for that mission. Age Quod Agis roughly translates as follows for today’s batch of students: Do what you do.


The scale on which this mission is carried out is much grander today than it was in the school’s first academic year. Upon its opening, the school consisted of one faculty member and a dozen boys. The school now employs more than 60 faculty members and welcomes more than 330 students each fall—male and female. In the 1970s, St. Mark’s reached an agreement for coordinated education with the nearby Southborough School, a newly founded institution for girls; four years later, Southborough School merged with St. Mark’s.


To this day, St. Mark’s remains focused on academics, provides a rigorous liberal arts program that stems from a classical tradition, and prepares its students for competitive colleges and universities. It is characterized by small classes, close student-teacher relationships, and a strong emphasis on the sporting life as a complement to the life of the mind.


Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, St. Mark’s continues to educate students from throughout the world.


Academics

St. Mark's maintains nine academic departments that offer instruction in their respective disciplines.

  • The English Department
  • The Arts Department
  • The Classics Department
  • The History Department
  • The Mathematics Department
  • The Modern Languages Department
  • The Psychology Department
  • The Religion Department
  • The Science Department

Starting in the School year 2007/2008, St. Mark's will be offering a Computer Science department. Even though computer science is considered a science, funding has been provided by alumni for education in computer technology who wish it to be created as a separate department.


Curriculum

The St. Mark's curriculum follows a liberal arts tradition. An English course required every year of students. All students take the same English class their first three years, and choose from a selection of electives their final year. Mathematics is required up and until the level of algebra two. Two years of laboratory science is required and one year of art and religion. In addition, one year of American history is required. Students take between 5 and 6 classes each year depending on the difficulty of the classes and their personal ambition. In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ...


Programs

St. Mark's offers several unique programs to its students and others affiliated with the school. The programs are as follow:

  • The Math Insititute
  • The Summer Music Institute
  • Electric Vehicle Engineering
  • Visiting Poet Program

Facilities

School Profile

  • Average SAT: 1380
  • School Endowment: $120 million
  • On average 20% of the graduating class attends an Ivy League college
  • SSAT percentile range: 80%-92%

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Notable Faculty

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Trivia

  • Baseball's catcher's mask was first used in 1875 by a St. Marks School catcher. It was originally a fencing helmet he modified so as to protect his broken nose. A Harvard baseball player by the name of Fred Thayer was playing on the opposing team that day and by 1878 Thayer had gotten a patent on it.
  • St. Mark's was originally a feeder school to Harvard
  • Poet Robert Lowell, generally considered to be one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, wrote his earliest published prose for student journals while at St. Mark's
  • Fay School was initially founded to be a feeder school to St. Mark's
  • Featured in The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach
  • School Ties (1992), starring Brendan Fraser, Chris O'Donnell, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck, was filmed at Middlesex and St. Mark's. Originally, the director wanted to use St. Mark's picturesque Tudor buildings as the primary film site; however, he was unable to get a permit from the local police station that would allow him to close off the street for filming. Thus he decided to use Middlesex School.
  • St. Mark's was referenced to in the Gilmore Girls episode titled "You've Been Gilmored". In it, one of the characters is mentioned to have been kicked out of Groton, St. Mark's, and Rivers.
  • The school is mentioned in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic first novel, This Side of Paradise.
  • St. Mark's century-old athletic rivalry with the younger Groton School is widely considered the second-oldest secondary school athletic rivalry in the United States, following the Andover-Exeter rivalry.


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Members of the Independent School League, New England
Belmont Hill School | Buckingham Browne & Nichols | Brooks School | The Governor's Academy | Groton School | Lawrence Academy at Groton | Middlesex School | Milton Academy | Noble and Greenough School | Rivers School | Roxbury Latin School | St. George's School | St. Mark's School | St. Paul's School | St. Sebastian's School | Thayer Academy

The Independent School League (ISL) is composed of sixteen prestigious New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Belmont Hill School an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Address 80 Gerrys Landing Road Town Cambridge, Massachusetts Country U.S. Browne & Nichols established 1883, by George H. Browne & Edgar H. Nichols[1] The Buckingham School established 1889 Buckingham Browne & Nichols merger 1974 Conference Independent School League Type Private Coeducational Religious Affiliation Secular Grades Pre-K to 12 (on... Brooks School // Brooks School is a private co-educational preparatory secondary school in North Andover, Massachusetts near the shore of Lake Cochichewick . ... The Governors Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy) is an independent school with 376 students in grades nine through twelve. ... Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 350 boys and girls, from the eighth (Second Form) through twelfth grades (Sixth Form). ... Lawrence Academy at Groton Lawrence Academy at Groton, (occasionally called LA or Lacademy), is a co-educational preparatory school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... Middlesex School The Circle, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts Clay Centennial Center, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts Middlesex School is an independent preparatory school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1901 by Frederick Winsor, who headed the school until 1937. ... Milton Academy is a private, preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts. ... The Noble and Greenough School, popularly referred to as Nobles, is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. ... The Rivers School The Rivers School is a private, coeducational, preparatory school, located in Weston, Massachusetts. ... Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 and located at 101 Saint Theresa Avenue in West Roxbury, Massachusetts since 1927, is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. ... St. ... St. ... Saint Sebastians School, also known colloquially as St. ... Thayer Academy (TA) is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts. ...

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