Students
The students are divided into forms ranging from Second form to Sixth form (8th to 12th grade). Second and third formers live in Brooks House, part of Lower School, with their prefects; fourth, fifth, and the remaining sixth formers live in Hundred House, also known as Upper School, and in two dorms in Brooks House. Each dorm has 2–8 prefects, and is headed and named after a faculty member who has an apartment that is connected to the dorm.
In the 2007–2008 school year there were 355 students, 172 boys and 183 girls; 313 boarders and 42 day students and faculty/staff children. A breakdown by Forms is as follows: Second Form (8th grade) – 35; Third Form (9th grade) – 70; Fourth Form (10th grade) – 87; Fifth Form (11th grade) – 77; Sixth Form (12th grade) – 86. At the start of the 2009 school year, there were 372 students enrolled.
In 2007, the median SAT I scores were 690 reading, 700 writing, and 690 math. Between 2003 and 2007, Groton graduates attended the following nine colleges most frequently (in order): Harvard University, Georgetown University, Brown University, Trinity College, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, Yale University, Vanderbilt University, and Tufts University.
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