Students and Faculty
There are 670 Upper School students at Milton, half of whom live on campus. There are 127 faculty members in the Upper School, 78% of whom have postgraduate degrees, and 9% holding doctorates. It has an average class size of 14, and a female-to-male ratio of 50–50. There are 305 students in the Lower School (Kindergarten-Grade 8). The Middle School (Grade 6-8) and Lower School (Kindergarten-Grade 5) have 25 and 28 faculty members respectively.
Milton offers several off-campus programs. Some students take a school year abroad in France, Italy, Spain or China; others go on semester programs such as Chewonki Semester School, The Mountain School, or CITYTerm. For the last few weeks of school, seniors often do "Senior Projects" instead of taking classes. Past senior projects have included: recording an album, writing a play, designing a golf course, constructing a sailboat by hand, engineering go-carts, directing a film, intensively studying a culture/language, designing/stitching custom needlepoint belts, and performing a Shakespearean play.
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