Phillips Exeter Academy

Exeter · NH · Private independent

Private

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SAT 1438 avg 23 National Merit Semifinalists

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Where graduates go, as the school itself publishes it. Phillips Exeter Academy publishes where its graduates go (COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025): 193 colleges, including Boston College, Bowdoin, Brown, Columbia.
Students who test here average 1438 on the SAT. That's far above the national average of about 1030 — as published in the school's own profile.

Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.

Where graduates go — as published by the school

Phillips Exeter Academy publishes where its graduates enrolled (COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025): 193 colleges. See the full list ↓

At a glance

Programs & features

Teaches no AP-designated courses — common among independent schools that run their own advanced curriculum
23 National Merit Semifinalists (2025)

Academic signals

SAT avg 1438 (25-75: 1360–1550)
ACT 25-75: 30–35
AP exam pass rate 96% — the school teaches no AP courses; students sit the exams anyway

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

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Phillips Exeter Academy publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 193 colleges, in the document's own order.

Years, as the document states them
COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025

Ivy+ and most selective · 11

Brown · Columbia · Cornell · Dartmouth · Harvard · MIT · Penn · Princeton · Yale · Duke · Stanford

University of California · 5

UC - Berkeley · UC - Irvine · UC - San Diego · UC - Santa Barbara · UCLA

Other California · 7

USC · Cal Tech · Harvey Mudd · Occidental · Pitzer · Santa Clara · Scripps

Out of state · 63

Boston College · George Washington · Georgetown · NYU · Northeastern · Notre Dame · Trinity College · Tufts · Wellesley · Amherst · Arizona State · Auburn · Barnard · Berea College · and 49 more below

Not matched to a college page · 107

Bowdoin · Chicago · U Michigan · Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences · American · Antioch · Appalachian State · Babson · Bates · Bentley · Bryn Mawr · Bucknell · Carleton · Central Florida · and 93 more below

Is my kid's college on this list?

✓ Stanford University ✓ New York University ✓ University of Southern California ✓ University of California, Los Angeles ✓ University of California, Berkeley — University of Michigan ✓ Cornell University ✓ Boston University ✓ Northeastern University — University of Texas at Austin ✓ Georgetown University ✓ Duke University

Any college:

The school down the road: Pinkerton Academy

College	Phillips Exeter Academy	Pinkerton Academy
Boston College	✓ named	—
Boston University	✓ named	✓ named
Brown	✓ named	—
Carnegie Mellon	✓ named	—
Columbia	✓ named	—
Cornell	✓ named	—
Dartmouth	✓ named	—
Duke	✓ named	—
Emory	✓ named	—
Georgetown	✓ named	—
Georgia Tech	✓ named	—
Harvard	✓ named	—

Both schools print names, not counts, so this shows which selective colleges each list names.

All 193 colleges, as the document prints them

Boston College Bowdoin Brown Chicago Columbia Cornell Dartmouth George Washington Georgetown Harvard MIT NYU Northeastern Notre Dame Penn Princeton Trinity College Tufts UC - Berkeley U Michigan USC Wellesley Yale Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences American Amherst Antioch Appalachian State Arizona State Auburn

and 163 more

Babson Barnard Bates Bentley Berea College Berklee College of Music Boston University Brandeis Bryn Mawr Bucknell Cal Tech Carleton Carnegie Mellon Case Western Catholic University Central Florida Clark Clemson Colby Colgate Colorado College Columbia Univ. - Sciences Po Dual BA Program Columbia Univ. Int'l Dual BA Program Connecticut College CUNY Macaulay Honors College Davidson Denison Dickinson Drew Drexel Duke Emmanuel Emory Fairfield Fordham Franklin and Marshall Furman Georgia Tech Grinnell Hamilton Harvey Mudd Haverford Hobart and William Smith Holy Cross Howard Indiana Bloomington James Madison Johns Hopkins Kenyon Lehigh Louisiana State Loyola - Chicago Macalester Merrimack Michigan State Middlebury Morehouse Mount Holyoke Northwestern Occidental Ohio State Oregon State Pace Penn State Pitzer Pomona Providence Purdue Purdue - Northwest Rhode Island Rice RISD RIT Rollins RPI Rutgers Saint Anselm Saint Leo Santa Clara Sarah Lawrence Scripps Skidmore Smith Sophie Davis South Dakota State SMU Southwestern Spelman St. Joseph's St. Lawrence St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Olaf College Stanford Stonehill Suffolk Swarthmore Syracuse The New School Thomas College Towson Trinity U Tulane U.S. Air Force Academy U.S. Naval Academy Union (NY) U Alabama UC - Irvine UC - San Diego UC - Santa Barbara UCLA U Colorado - Boulder UConn U Denver U Florida U Georgia U Illinois – Chicago U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign U Kentucky U Maine U Maryland UMass - Amherst UMass - Lowell U Miami UNC - Chapel Hill UNC - Charlotte U New Hampshire U Oregon U Pittsburgh U Regina U Richmond U Rochester U South Carolina U Tennessee - Knoxville U Texas - Austin U Texas – San Antonio U Utah U Vermont U Virginia U Washington U Wisconsin - Madison U Wisconsin – La Crosse Vanderbilt Vassar Villanova Virgina Tech Wake Forest Washington & Lee Washington U Wesleyan William & Mary Williams WPI Edinburgh ITEMS - Campus Monterrey King's College London McGill University Trinity College Dublin UCL U British Columbia U Guelph U Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University U St. Andrews U Toronto

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As published, source linked As published by Phillips Exeter Academy — 2025-26 Profile for Colleges ↗. Found at: p.2, 'COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025' section — '99% of graduates attending four-year institution.' Colleges are grouped into three printed tiers: '≥10 Student.

Phillips Exeter Academy also published an earlier counted list — 194 colleges (Classes 2014-2016)

Their earlier counted list

The counted list above is the school's newer publication. This is the counted list it published before it — the years as that document stated them: Classes 2014-2016 — kept as printed, in the document's own order, and never added to the newer counts.

College · Students

Allegheny College 2

American University 2

American University of Paris 1

Amherst College 10

Babson College 4

Bard College 2

Barnard College 6

Bates College 4

Bennington College 1

Bentley University 2

Boston College 5

Boston University 7

Bowdoin College 13

Brown University 19

Bryn Mawr College 1

Bucknell University 1

California Institute of Technology 1

Carleton College 4

Carnegie Mellon University 14

Case Western Reserve University 4

Catholic University of America 1

Claremont McKenna College 4

Clark University 1

Clarkson University 1

Colby College 13

Colgate University 4

College of the Holy Cross 3

College of William & Mary 7

Colorado College 1

Colorado School of Mines 2

and 164 more

Colorado State University 1

Columbia University 40

Connecticut College 7

Cornell College 1

Cornell University 20

CUNY Hunter College 1

Dartmouth College 20

Davidson College 2

Denison University 1

Dickinson College 2

Drew University 1

Drexel University 1

Duke University 7

Durham University 2

Eckerd College 1

Emerson College 2

Emory University 5

Endicott College 1

Fairfield University 1

Florida Institute of Technology 1

Fordham University 1

Franklin and Marshall College 1

George Washington University 3

Georgetown University 29

Georgia Institute of Technology 5

Gettysburg College 2

Grinnell College 2

Gustavus Adolphus College 1

Hamilton College 6

Hampshire College 1

Harvard University 28

Harvey Mudd College 5

Haverford College 1

Hobart & William Smith Colleges 1

Howard University 2

Indiana University Bloomington 1

ITES de Monterrey 1

Johns Hopkins University 10

Kalamazoo College 1

Keene State College 1

Kenyon College 2

King’s College London 3

Lafayette College 4

Lehigh University 1

Lewis & Clark College 2

Liberty University 1

Loyola Marymount University 1

Loyola University New Orleans 1

Macalester College 1

Marist College 3

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22

McGill University 5

Middlebury College 8

Morehouse College 1

Mount Holyoke College 3

New School - Eugene Lang College 1

New York University 24

Northeastern University 9

Northwestern University 7

Norwich University 4

Oberlin College 5

Occidental College 4

Pennsylvania State University 1

Pitzer College 1

Pomona College 5

Princeton University 21

Purdue University 4

Queen’s University 1

Radford University 1

Reed College 1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2

Rhodes College 2

Rice University 1

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 1

Rutgers University 1

Santa Clara University 4

Sarah Lawrence College 2

Scripps College 12

Sewanee: University of the South 3

Simmons College 1

Skidmore College 1

Smith College 3

Soka University of America 1

Southern Methodist University 1

Spelman College 1

St. John’s College - Annapolis 1

St. Olaf College 1

Stanford University 23

Stevens Institute of Technology 2

Suffolk University 1

SUNY New Paltz 1

SUNY Stony Brook 1

Susquehanna University 1

Swarthmore College 8

Syracuse University 9

Temple University 1

Texas A & M University 2

Texas Christian University 1

Trinity College 8

Trinity College Dublin 1

Tufts University 18

Tulane University 1

U.S. Air Force Academy 1

U.S. Military Academy 2

U.S. Naval Academy 4

Union College (NY) 7

Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst 1

University of California - Berkeley 9

University of California - Davis 1

University of California - Los Angeles 2

University of California - San Diego 1

University of California - Santa Barbara 2

University of Cambridge 1

University of Chicago 20

University of Colorado - Boulder 1

University of Denver 2

University of Edinburgh 4

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign 2

University of Kentucky 1

University of Maine - Orono 2

University of Maryland - College Park 2

University of Massachusetts - Amherst 7

University of Massachusetts - Lowell 2

University of Miami 2

University of Michigan 21

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 1

University of Mississippi 1

University of Nevada - Reno 1

University of New England 2

University of New Hampshire 8

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 6

University of Notre Dame 2

University of Oxford 2

University of Pennsylvania 8

University of Pittsburgh 1

University of Richmond 1

University of Rochester 1

University of San Diego 1

University of San Francisco 1

University of Southern California 12

University of St. Andrews 3

University of Texas - Austin 2

University of Texas - Dallas 2

University of Toronto 1

University of Vermont 2

University of Virginia 4

University of Washington 1

University of West Indies 1

University of Wisconsin - Madison 1

Vanderbilt University 5

Vassar College 1

Villanova University 2

Virginia Military Institute 1

Wake Forest University 1

Washington University 5

Wellesley College 8

Wesleyan University 17

Wheaton College (IL) 2

Wheaton College (MA) 2

Whitman College 1

Williams College 16

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3

Yale NUS College 1

Yale University 33

As published, earlier document College Matriculation for Classes 2014-2016 ↗ Found at: Two-page PDF; the single alphabetical college list (Allegheny→Yale) under the heading "College Matriculation for Classes 2014-2016", page 1 intro + three-column list continuing on page 2 under the repeated heading..

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How Phillips Exeter Academy compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

▸ NationallySAT mean 1438 (≈ top 4% of US test-takers) · 96% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 23 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 NMSF concentration.
▸ 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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University of New Hampshire-Main Campus

87%

admit rate

$19,202

in-state tuition/yr · $39,852 out-of-state

1120–1320

SAT 25–75 · ACT 26–31

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.

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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 1,081 in 2018 to 1,064 in 2022 — over 4 years.

-1.6%

Why only 3 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 Phillips Exeter Academy's own published school profile (as of 2025-26): www.exeter.edu/profile-for-colleges ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -0.4%/year, projecting from 2022's 1,064 students:

2023

1,060

2025

1,051

2027

1,043

≈ 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%

At a glance

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Phillips Exeter Academy is a private high school in Exeter, NH, enrolling 1,064 students in grades 9-12 in 2022.

Enrollment is down 2% from 2018 to 2022.

Phillips Exeter Academy publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025: 193 colleges. Source: 2025-26 Profile for Colleges.

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.

Questions families ask

Where do Phillips Exeter Academy graduates go to college? Phillips Exeter Academy publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025: 193 colleges. Source: 2025-26 Profile for Colleges.

How many students attend Phillips Exeter Academy? Phillips Exeter Academy is a private high school in Exeter, NH, enrolling 1,064 students in grades 9-12 in 2022.

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