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Phillips Academy Andover (also known as Phillips Academy, Andover, or PA) is a co-educational preparatory high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate (PG) year. The school is located in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles north of Boston. The school has a student population of 1,122, and is highly selective, accepting 13% of applicants. ==Overview== Phillips Academy Andover is the oldest incorporated high school in the United States, established in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, by Samuel Phillips, Jr. Phillips's uncle founded Phillips Exeter Academy three years later. Phillips Academy's endowment stood around $800 million in June 2011, the fourth-highest of any American secondary school. Andover is subject to the control of a board of trustees, headed by Peter Currie, business executive and former Netscape Chief Financial Officer, who took over as president of the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees on July 1, 2012. On November 14, 2012, John G. Palfrey, Jr., Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, was named the 15th Head of School. Phillips Academy admitted only boys until the school became coeducational in 1973, the year of Phillips Academy's merger with Abbot Academy, a boarding school for girls also in Andover. Abbot Academy, founded in 1828, was the first incorporated school for girls in New England. Then-headmaster Theodore Sizer oversaw the merger. Andover traditionally educated its students for Yale, just as Phillips Exeter Academy educated its students for Harvard, and Lawrenceville prepped students for Princeton.〔The pattern of strongly favoring Yale began in the 1840s and continued through the 1940s. During those years, when the senior class numbered around forty, Andover graduates matriculated as follows: 1858 – 20 to Yale, 10 to Williams; 1863 – 21 to Yale, eight to Brown, five to Harvard; 1868 – 25 to Yale, 12 to Amherst, 12 to Harvard. The height of matriculation to Yale was 1937, when one freshman in ten at Yale was an Andover alumnus. That year, 74 percent of the class matriculated at Yale, Harvard, or Princeton. By 1957 only 47% matriculated at those institutions. Amherst consistently ranked third after Yale and Harvard for many years in this period, but declined after the 1940s when the school sought to admit more public school graduates. In 1950 for the first time in over a century, more graduates were admitted to Harvard than Yale (64 and 46, respectively) (See ''Youth From Every Quarter: A Bicentennial History of Phillips Academy, Andover'', by Frederick S. Allis, Jr. (University Press of New England, 1978)).〕 The school's student-run newspaper, ''The Phillipian'',〔''(The Phillipian )''〕 is the second oldest secondary school newspaper in the United States, the oldest secondary school newspaper being ''The Exonian'', Phillips Exeter Academy's weekly.〔http://pdf.phillipian.net/1954/03111954.pdf〕 ''The Phillipian'' was first published on July 28, 1857 has been published regularly since 1878. It retains financial and editorial independence from Phillips Academy, having completed a $500,000 endowment drive in 2014. Students comprise the editorial board and make all decisions for the paper, consulting with two faculty advisors at their own discretion.〔"()"〕 The Philomathean Society is the oldest high school debate society in the nation, established in 1825. Phillips Academy also runs a five-week summer session for approximately 600 students entering grades 8 through 12. 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「Phillips Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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