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Phillips Academy (Andover)
Phillips Academy, commonly known as Andover, was founded in 1778 by Samuel Phillips Jr., making it one of the oldest incorporated schools in the United States, predating even the country's own founding as an independent nation by a matter of months. The school's history includes a notably early commitment to expanding access, and its alumni include two U.S. presidents from the same family, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, alongside numerous other prominent figures across politics, business, and the arts. Andover's extensive campus includes its own archaeological museum, art museum, and observatory, reflecting an unusually resource-rich institutional history built up over nearly two and a half centuries of continuous operation and alumni philanthropy. Phillips Academy's combination of its status as one of the nation's oldest schools and its multi-generational presidential and prominent alumni lineage has made it one of the most historically significant boarding schools in the country.
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The Lawrenceville School
The Lawrenceville School was founded in 1810 and is known distinctively for its "House System," a residential structure grouping students into smaller communities of roughly a dozen students living with a faculty family, designed to create a more intimate, family-like environment than a typical large boarding school dormitory. The school's Harkness-style round-table teaching approach, similar to peer institutions like Exeter, emphasizes small discussion-based classes over lecture formats, reflecting a broader shared philosophy among elite Northeastern boarding schools about how students learn most effectively. Lawrenceville's roughly 700-acre campus, designed in part by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm (sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park), gave the school a distinctive, carefully planned physical environment uncommon even among peer boarding schools. The Lawrenceville School's combination of its distinctive House System residential model and its Olmsted-designed campus has made it one of the most architecturally and communally distinctive boarding schools in the country.
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