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Deerfield Academy is a highly selective independent, coeducational boarding school at Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 640 students and about 120 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus during the school year. The acceptance rate at Deerfield Academy is currently around 16%. Deerfield is a member of the Eight Schools Association (ESA), begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized in 2006, and of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, founded in 1956. There is a seven-school overlap of membership between the two groups.〔Smith, Taylor, "History of the Association," ''The Phillipian'', February 14, 2008.〕 Deerfield is additionally a member of the G20 Schools group. In 2007 Deerfield's endowment was valued at US$415 million, or roughly $680,000 per student. Fees were around $37,000 for day students and $52,000 for boarders in 2012-2013.〔() Academy Web page. Updated 2010-03-16.〕 ==History== Deerfield Academy was founded in 1797 when Massachusetts Governor Samuel Adams granted a charter to found a school in the town of Deerfield.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boyden, Deerfield Headmaster 66 Years, Will Retire in June )〕 It began to educate students in 1799. The academy quickly established itself as one of the finest schools in the new republic, drawing boys from prominent families across New England. The school produced influential men that occupied many congressional and gubernatorial seats in New England. By the end of the 19th century, the shifting trends in industrialization had left rural Deerfield behind. The economic hardships of the times impoverished local farmers and drove them away to the wealthy cities. The board of trustees was considering closing the Academy, as only nine students remained. These were the school's darkest times. With little support from local farmers and a dire economic situation, the 100-year-old school was on the brink of collapse. In the early twentieth century, Deerfield's fortunes rose with the appointment of Frank Boyden as headmaster. He quickly reorganized the school and provided it with a sound financial basis. He recruited students actively from local farms and towns, promising parents that their boys would be successful. Boyden had great confidence in the value of athletics as a component of education. He often played on varsity squads that lacked players. He attracted and trained many teachers who would become masters and keep long loyalties to the academy. The prestige enjoyed by the school today is a direct result of the foundations he laid over seven decades, including training scores of men as teachers and headmasters in their own right. After 66 years of service, Frank Boyden retired in 1968. David M. Pynchon was appointed headmaster after Boyden. He prepared the school for the late part of the 20th century by expanding the curriculum, updating the school buildings and putting the school on a firm financial footing by expanding the endowment. In 1989 the Academy reestablished coeducation, which Boyden had discontinued in 1948. At the time male students had protested the decision.〔Quinn, Laura. "(When Prep School Goes Coed Following The Lead Of Many Other Private Schools, Lawrenceville Finally Broke With Tradition To Admit Girls )." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. March 20, 1988. Retrieved on July 3, 2014. "When the boys at Deerfield Academy, the prestigious Massachusetts prep school, stormed out of their cafeteria several weeks ago to protest the school's decision to admit girls for the first time, there were young men at the Lawrenceville School here who grumbled in sympathy."〕 Eric Widmer '57 served as headmaster from 1994 to 2006. He stepped down in June 2006 and soon after assumed the position of Founding Headmaster at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, a school inspired in part by HM King Abdullah II's Deerfield years in the 1980s.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Expectations ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S.-style boarding school planting roots in Jordan )〕 It opened in the fall of 2007. The current Head of School, Dr. Margarita O'Byrne Curtis H '57, previously Dean of Studies at Phillips Andover, is the first woman to hold the position. The David H. Koch Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology, named after David H. Koch '59, opened in 2007 and is Gold LEED certified.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LEED Buildings in NE § Environmental Studies E-119 (Fall 2008-2009) )〕 The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deerfield Academy - Koch Center for Science, Math & Technology Project Page )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deerfield Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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