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North Andover, Massachusetts, USA Co-Ed, Episcopal
Brooks provides a co-educational, college preparatory program on a 250-acre campus overlooking Lake Cochichewick. Small classes allow students to work closely with teachers, fostering a relationship that is at the core of the warm, close-knit community. Brooks also offers opportunities to study abroad in Europe and Africa. A summer science program places juniors at labs at MIT and Harvard and on the coast of Canada in Labrador. Visual and performing arts are an integral part of school life, while on the athletic fields numerous teams have won New England or league championships in recent years.
1160 Great Pond RoadNorth Andover, Massachusetts, USA 01845 (978) 725-6300
Director of Admissions: Robina Egertson Admissions Phone:(978) 725-6272Fax:978-725-6298 Email: [email protected] Website: www.brooksschool.org
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Summary: The Brooks curriculum encourages students to venture into new and unfamiliar areas and to proceed to the highest level in as many fields as possible. We aspire to educate the whole person for a life of responsible citizenship.The Brooks curriculum provides students with a broad-based academic experience in preparation for university. In addition, students develop skills and habits of the mind that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Ideally, all students will enroll in courses in the five major disciplines for all four years of high school. Students are also encouraged to pursue their interests in the arts throughout their career at Brooks.
Department Director: Susanna Waters
Average Class Size: 12
Full Time Teachers: 87
Teachers Holding Advanced Degrees: 76.00%
Student/Teacher Ratio: 5:1
Academic Schedule: Semester
Saturday Classes: Most or All
Number of AP Courses Offered: 17
Summary: Brooks enjoys a pastoral setting overlooking Lake Cochichewick. There are many places for students to relax during free time, the most popular of which is the student center, which houses the F. Fessenden Wilder Dining Hall, the snack bar, school store, and post office. There is a game room and a cozy fireplaced lounge with big screen television. Close proximity to the city of Boston and the surrounding suburbs allows students easy access to off-campus events such as museum trips and other cultural events. Shopping, dining, and other entertainment options are also close by. Weekends are full of popular on-campus activities. Time spent with friends in dormitories is an important part of the educational experience at Brooks. The school has 10 dormitories, five each for girls and boys. At least two faculty members live in each residence, and dorm prefects are appointed to work with the younger students as they adjust to living away from home. On weeknights and Sunday evening, dorms are quiet for study hours between 8 and 10. Third formers have assigned study hall in the Science Center lecture hall and sixth formers are free to study outside of the dorm.
Department Director: Andrea Heinze
Number of Dorms: 10
No. of Girls Dorms: 5
No. of Boys Dorms: 5
Dorm Amenities:
Dress Code: Formal
Summary: A variety of weekend activities are also offered, from trips to the movies or to local malls and faculty open houses or cookie dough at the Headmaster's House, to foam dances, coffeehouse entertainment, the annual Lip Sync contest, hypnotist show, Drive-In Movie Night, and Woodstock—Brooks-style. On Saturday nights after check-in at 11:00, dorm parents host dorm parties for residents.Day students are encouraged to become involved in the residential life of the school. All-school dinners are held a number of times during the year and day students often spend Saturday nights on campus, sleeping over with a friend in a dorm.
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Summary: Athletics play an important role in "educating the whole person" and Brooks takes pride in its successful and all-encompassing athletic program. In recent years, many varsity teams have won league and New England Championships.Brooks also offers junior varisty and thirds teams allowing all students to enjoy the benefits of inter-scholastic athletic competition. The art program at Brooks encourages all students to cultivate their creativity. Levels of classes in studio art, drama, and music are available for beginners and advanced art students.
Arts Department Director: Rob Lazar
Athletics Department Director: Bobbie Crump-Burbank
Notable Achievements: Boys Basketball 2016 ISL and New England Champions, Boys Hockey 2015 Piatelli-Simmons NE Champs, Boys Football 2014 Sean Brennan Championship Bowl
Summary: The college process at Brooks encourages and supports introspection and is student-centered, focused on fit. Students are guided in exploring who they are, what matters to them, what they like, what they want, and where they might want to spend the undergraduate years. Through a series of one-on-one meetings, form meetings and mini-classes, they examine their interests, identify strengths and weaknesses as well as personal priorities as a way of knowing themselves better and researching schools of interest.
Department Director: Campbell Andy
Percentage of Graduates Who Attend College: 100.00%
Colleges attended in the past 5 years by our graduates:
Middle Percentile of SAT Scores
Summary: At Brooks our primary goal is to provide a physically and emotionally safe, enriching environment in which campers can spend their summer vacation. Children ages four through eighteen are offered a variety of recreational, education and creative experiences designed to meet the diverse interests and abilities of a wide range of campers. Through one or more of our programs, the Brooks School Day Camp, Counselor-in-Training Program, [email protected] (the Brooks School Computer Camp), Teen Quest, the Vogelsinger Soccer Academy and Brooks Summer School youngsters flourish in a supportive atmosphere, acquire new skills, stir interest, make friends and journey through memorable summer adventures.
Department Director: Jake Andrus
Every summer, the Brooks campus comes alive with an amazing variety of activities. On any given day, hundreds of children are taking aim in archery, paddling canoes, swimming in the pool, writing music on a computer, improving their soccer dribble, reinforcing writing skills and meeting new friends
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Summary: Among other programs, Brooks has three special opportunities that separate us from other schools. All three take you Beyond Brooks through experiential learning.******Students on the Forefront of ScienceCancer biology research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Cell-based therapy research at Pervasis Therapeutics. Environmental science education and resource management with the Quebec-Labrador Foundation. Brooks School’s Students on the Forefront of Science program has continued to provide challenging internships in science-based research and cutting-edge industries since launching in 2004. Awarded to Brooks’ most talented and passionate fifth-form science students, these summer experiences impact the students’ approach to their final year in high school sciences, as they return to the classrooms with an impressive set of lab skills and a more mature sense of the scientific method.******Exchange ProgramThe Brooks School Exchange Program, founded in 1986, promotes the global education of students from Brooks and its partner schools in Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Hungary, Scotland, Spain, France and Peru. By living abroad as residents in other school communities, our students are challenged to extend themselves to another place, another culture, another people – and, most importantly, to be affected by them, to be changed by them.We are confident that experiencing this transformative process of enculturation makes our students more empathetic and engaged global citizens.*****Winter TermWinter Term is an intense, three-week, one-topic course of study held each January. The goal of Winter Term is to put into practice the concept of “depth over breadth,” something that supports the school’s mission of providing the most meaningful educational experiences Brooks students will have. The single-course structure of Winter Term allows students and faculty to work together even more closely than they do in regular classes.