Groton School
Private day and boarding school in Groton
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| 2024 | The Groton girls' tennis team won the ISL championship. |
| 2024 | Niche ranked Groton School as America's top private high school. Private School Review also repeated the ranking of Groton as the most selective boarding school. |
| 2024 | Groton raised its financial aid income threshold from $80,000 to $150,000, expanding free tuition eligibility for families. |
| 2023 | The Groton girls' tennis team won the ISL championship. |
| 2023 | Groton School served as a minor filming location for Alexander Payne's film The Holdovers, with scenes shot in the chapel and outside the boathouse on the Nashua River. |
| 2023 | The Form of 2023 achieved an exceptional academic performance, with an average combined SAT score of 1490 and an average combined ACT score of 33.5, highlighting the school's academic excellence. |
| 2023 | In the 2023–24 school year, Groton School achieved significant diversity, with 46% of students identifying as students of color, 15% commuting from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and 7% being international students from 25 countries. |
| 2022 | Concluded a four-year period of extensive AP exam participation, demonstrating the school's strong academic performance and commitment to advanced learning. |
| 2022 | The Groton boys' tennis team won the ISL championship. |
| 2022 | Groton was determined to be the least expensive school among a sample of 40 peer boarding schools. |
| 2022 | Groton School's acceptance rate further decreased to 8%. |
| 2021 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Groton School's acceptance rate dropped to 9% due to a 20% increase in applications. |
| 2020 | Niche ranked Groton School at #33 among private high schools. |
| 2020 | Both the Groton girls' and boys' squash teams won the U.S. high school team division three national championship. |
| 2018 | Groton completes its $74 million fundraising campaign, allowing the school to implement need-blind admissions. |
| 2018 | A student wrote in the school newspaper about the Buddhist service becoming a popular option for non-religious students, allowing smartphone use during the service. |
| 2018 | The Groton boys' tennis team won the ISL championship. |
| 2018 | Groton students began a comprehensive AP exam participation period, taking 2,582 AP exams over the next four years with a remarkable 93% pass rate. |
| 2018 | The school announced that its admission rate became equal for both financial aid and full-pay applicants. |
| 2018 | At the start of the 2018–19 school year, 18 of 96 incoming students were siblings of current students, and 5 were children of school employees. |
| 2018 | Architectural Digest named Groton School the most beautiful private high school campus in Massachusetts. |
| 2016 | Business Insider ranked Groton School as the most selective boarding school in the United States. |
| 2014 | The school adopted a policy of restricting frontline tuition to be lower than its competitors. |
| 2014 | Groton begins a $74 million fundraising campaign aimed at enabling need-blind admissions. |
| 2013 | Temba Maqubela, a South African educator, becomes Headmaster of Groton School. |
| 2012 | Last year the school reported admission statistics showing 25–30% of full-pay applicants were admitted compared to 10–20% of financial aid applicants. |
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