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Dexter Southfield

Brookline · MA · Private independent · K-12 combined

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What families should know about Dexter Southfield.

  • ▸ LocallyMA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+14 points).

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Your state's public flagship

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

58%
admit rate
$17,772
in-state tuition/yr · $40,449 out-of-state
1300–1480
SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–33

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 $22,383/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where the Class of 2026 enrolled

Dexter Southfield publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 73 colleges, in the document's own order.

Arizona State University Assumption University Auburn University Babson College Bates College Bentley University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara Chapman University College of Charleston University of Chicago Clemson University Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Elon University Fairfield University The George Washington University Georgetown University Gettysburg College Harvard College Hobart and William Smith Colleges College of the Holy Cross
and 43 more
Indiana University Bloomington Lehigh University University of Maryland University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Merrimack College University of Miami University of Michigan University of Mississippi University of New Hampshire University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Northeastern University The Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University Providence College Rhodes College University of Richmond Sacred Heart University Skidmore College University of South Carolina University of Southern California Southern Methodist University St. Lawrence University Stonehill College Syracuse University University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Texas at Austin Texas Christian University Tufts University Tulane University United States Military Academy West Point Villanova University Virginia Tech Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Wentworth Institute of Technology West Virginia University Western University Williams College University of Wisconsin–Madison Yale University

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Dexter Southfield — Class of 2026 Matriculation List ↗. Found at: Academics > College Counseling.

About this listing

Dexter Southfield is listed by NAIS. It has not reported to the federal Private School Survey, which is voluntary, so enrollment figures are not available here — many of the country's oldest independent schools are in the same position. The school's own site: www.dextersouthfield.org ↗

Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.

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