Groton School

Groton · MA · Religious-affiliated · K-12 combined

Private

SAT 1500 avg

At a glance

Academic signals
  • SAT avg 1500
  • ACT avg 34
  • APCollege-level courses with a national exam each May. A score of 3+ "passes" and can earn college credit; the pass rate tells you whether a school's AP program has substance behind the course list. exam pass rate 96%

Composed from the school's own published profile (2025), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Groton School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

  • NationallySAT mean 1500 (≈ top 1% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 34.0 (≈ top 1%) · 96% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · Top 5% of the 218 curated private schools in our database on SAT mean.
  • LocallyMA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+14 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Pepperell Christian Academy, South Lancaster Academy, Immaculate Heart Of Mary School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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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 their graduates enrolled

Groton School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 23 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
2022–2026

College  ·  Students

University of Chicago 58
Harvard University 18
Tufts University 16
Boston College 14
Dartmouth College 14
Yale University 14
Georgetown University 12
Cornell University 11
Princeton University 11
Stanford University 11
Brown University 10
Columbia University, New York 9
Middlebury College 9
University of Pennsylvania 8
Colby College 7
Hamilton College 7
Northwestern University 7
Carnegie Mellon University 6
University of Southern California 6
Vanderbilt University 6
Williams College 6
Bowdoin College 5
Colgate University 5

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Groton School — Groton School — Matriculations (full list), via Academics > College Counseling ↗. Found at: 'Colleges where five or more Groton students have matriculated, 2022–2026' (numbered) and 'Colleges where fewer than five Groton students have matriculated, 202.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 382 in 2020 to 379 in 2022 — over 2 years.
-0.8%
Why only 2 data points?

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 Groton School's own published school profile (as of 2025-26): www.groton.org/about/fast-facts ↗

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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Pepperell Christian Academy
Pepperell
Private 4.5 5
South Lancaster Academy
South Lancaster
Private 11.5 259 -4.4%
Immaculate Heart Of Mary School
Harvard
Private 7.9 126 -10.6%
Lawrence Academy
Groton
Private 1.1 424 +8.2%
Seven Hills At Groton
Groton
Private 1.3 31
Academy Of Notre Dame
Tyngsboro
Private 9.6 356 -26.6%
St Bernard'S High School Inc
Fitchburg
Private 10.2 187 +21.4%
Trivium School
Lancaster
Private 10.6 92 +29.6%

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