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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy was founded in 1781 by John Phillips, whose brother Samuel had founded Phillips Academy Andover just three years earlier, making the two schools sibling institutions with a friendly rivalry that has persisted for over two centuries. The school is closely identified with the "Harkness method," a discussion-based teaching approach built around oval tables that seat around a dozen students and a teacher as equals, funded by a 1930 gift from oil magnate Edward Harkness specifically to support this style of instruction rather than traditional lecture-based teaching. Exeter's notable alumni span an unusually wide range of fields, including author Dan Brown, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (who briefly attended before transferring), and numerous U.S. senators and Pulitzer Prize winners, reflecting the school's long-standing reputation as a pipeline to elite universities and prominent careers. Phillips Exeter Academy's combination of its historic Harkness discussion-based teaching method and its centuries-long track record producing prominent alumni has made it one of the most academically respected boarding schools in the country.
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Groton School
Groton School was founded in 1884 by Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal clergyman who modeled the school partly on English boarding school traditions and led it as headmaster for over half a century, embedding a strong emphasis on religious and moral education alongside academics. The school's most notable alumnus is President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who attended Groton before Harvard, and Peabody personally maintained a close relationship with Roosevelt throughout his life, including officiating at both of Roosevelt's weddings and later corresponding with him during his presidency. Groton's historically small enrollment, deliberately kept much smaller than many peer boarding schools, reflected Peabody's specific educational philosophy prioritizing close faculty-student relationships and a tightly knit community over institutional scale. Groton School's combination of its founder's deeply personal, multi-decade relationship with a future U.S. president and its deliberately intimate small-school philosophy has made it one of the most historically distinctive boarding schools in the country.
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