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Seacoast Performance Academy → Learning Skills Academy → Seacoast Learning Collaborative → Busche Academy → Longview School → Pinkerton Academy → Rochester Learning Academy → Monarch School Of New England →📋 At a glance
- 🏆 26 National Merit Semifinalists last year
- 📝 SAT avg 1490 (25-75: 1440–1550)
- 📝 ACT avg 34.0 (25-75: 32–35)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Phillips Exeter Academy compares for families
Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.
- ▸ NationallySAT mean 1490 (≈ top 3% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 34.0 (≈ top 1%) · 26 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers) · Top 5% of the 218 curated private schools in our database on SAT mean.
- ▸ LocallyNH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Seacoast Performance Academy, Learning Skills Academy, Seacoast Learning Collaborative and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $23,805/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Enrollment trend & projection
Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.
For a more current snapshot, see Phillips Exeter Academy's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.exeter.edu/admissions/school-profile ↗
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.4%/year, projecting from 2022's 1,064 students:
≈ 21 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At tuition per student, the 21 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $336,000/year in tuition at risk.
Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seacoast Performance Academy Exeter |
Private | 1.2 | 75 | — |
| Learning Skills Academy Rye |
Private | 7.6 | 58 | -6.5% |
| Seacoast Learning Collaborative Newton |
Private | 10.0 | 44 | — |
| Busche Academy Chester |
Private | 15.5 | 24 | — |
| Longview School Deerfield |
Private | 15.6 | 21 | — |
| Pinkerton Academy Derry |
Private | 19.4 | 3,074 | — |
| Rochester Learning Academy Somersworth |
Private | 20.3 | 13 | — |
| Monarch School Of New England Rochester |
Private | 23.3 | 63 | +16.7% |