Spence School

New York · NY · Private independent · K-12 combined

Private

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Nightingale-Bamford School → Dalton School → La Scuola D'Italia → Lascuola Ditalia → Rudolf Steiner School → Dwight School → Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School → The Hewitt School →

SAT 1432 avg

At a glance

Programs & features

Teaches no AP-designated courses — common among independent schools that run their own advanced curriculum

Academic signals

SAT avg 1432 (25-75: 1350–1520)
ACT avg 32 (25-75: 32–35)

Composed from the school's own published profile (2026), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Spence School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

▸ NationallySAT mean 1432 (≈ top 4% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 32.0 (≈ top 4%).
▸ LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Nightingale-Bamford School, Dalton School, La Scuola D'Italia and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

Stony Brook University

49%

admit rate

$10,931

in-state tuition/yr · $32,741 out-of-state

1320–1490

SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

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 $18,784/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.

Pay for college in New York

New York's public scholarships

New York's Excelsior Scholarship makes SUNY and CUNY tuition-free for middle-income families — there's no GPA or test gate, but you commit to staying in New York after you graduate.

Promise Excelsior Scholarship

Free SUNY/CUNY tuition (last-dollar, up to $5,500/yr)

Income: Household AGI ≤ $125,000

Tuition-free SUNY/CUNY for NY families under $125k AGI — no GPA or test gate, but you must stay on track and live in New York after graduating. (Stay on-track (30 credits/yr); live & work in NY afterward for the years you received it.)

Official program details ↗

Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Their published college acceptances

College acceptances, Class 2023-2025

Spence School publishes the colleges that admitted its graduates. What follows is copied from that document — 179 colleges, in the document's own order.

Amherst College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Bennington College Bentley University Binghamton University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Chapman University Clark University Cleveland Institute of Music Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston Colorado College Columbia College Chicago Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University CUNY BMCC

and 149 more

CUNY Brooklyn College CUNY City College CUNY Hunter College CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY Lehman College Dartmouth College Davidson College Denison University Drew University Drexel University Duke University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Farleigh Dickinson University Fashion Institute of Technology Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Goldsmiths University of London Goucher College Grinnell College Hamilton College Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Howard University Indiana University-Bloomington Iona University Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Louisiana State University Loyola Marymount University Macalester College Manhattanville University Marquette University Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Middlebury College Mount Holyoke College New York University North Carolina A&T State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Occidental College Otis College of Art and Design Pace University Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University Pitzer College Pomona College Pratt Institute Princeton University Providence College Purdue University Queen's University (CA) Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rhodes College Rice University Roanoke College Rutgers University-New Brunswick Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art & Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Scripps College Seton Hall University Skidmore College Smith College Southern Methodist University Spelman College Stanford University Stony Brook University SUNY at Purchase College SUNY Buffalo State SUNY New Paltz Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University The American University of Paris The College of Wooster The George Washington University The Juilliard School The New School The Ohio State University The University of Texas at Austin Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College (NY) Universita Bocconi University at Albany University at Buffalo University College London University of California-Berkeley University of California-Davis University of California-Irvine University of California-Los Angeles University of California-San Diego University of California-Santa Barbara University of California-Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Edinburgh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Maine University of Maryland-College Park University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Miami University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Minnesota University of Mississippi University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania University of Rhode Island University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Francisco University of Southern California University of St Andrews University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Vassar College Villanova University Washington and Lee University Washington University in St Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University William & Mary Williams College Xavier University Xavier University of Louisiana Yale University

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As published, source linked As published by Spence School — Spence Report to Colleges 2025-2026 ↗. Found at: p.4 of 4, 'College Acceptances Class 2023-2025 (Colleges where Spence students attend are in bold)'.

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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
Nightingale-Bamford School New York	Private	0.0	674	+6.3%
Dalton School New York	Private	0.1	1,221	—
La Scuola D'Italia New York	Private	0.2	110	-34.5%
Lascuola Ditalia New York	Private	0.2	111	-33.9%
Rudolf Steiner School New York	Private	0.6	244	-12.2%
Dwight School New York	Private	0.6	742	+18.5%
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School New York	Private	0.7	1,138	-8.1%
The Hewitt School New York	Private	0.8	464	-11.6%

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