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About Brewster
About Brewster
Students transform through an intellectually diverse and academically challenging environment without standardization and with the guidance and coaching that create success.

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Admission
Admission
Our commitment to personalization, high standards, and bringing out the potential in each student begins with your experience in Admissions. Let us know how we can help you start your Brewster journey!

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Academics
Academics
An inclusive educational model and the expertise that goes into its practice - unique, powerful and exclusively ours!

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Student Life
Student Life
Learn how to be independent, build on your natural talents, contribute to a community, and set your own direction based on your interests and experiences.

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Arts
Arts
Discover your passion, embrace your theatrical side, think outside the traditional art form – you will be encouraged to take that leap at Brewster!

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Athletics
Athletics
Be a part of a team where you are known as a person, challenged as an individual, and respected for your unique talents and abilities on the field, water, court or trail.

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Summer
Summer
It’s hard to find a prep school campus that is more robust than Brewster in the summer. From our own summer school to sports camps, to the Royal Thai Scholars, or a lakeside wedding, we invite you to find your summer experience with us.

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Giving
Giving
When you support Brewster, you support something that doesn’t exist anywhere else! The way education should be reflects the way the world should be.

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Fast Facts

Brewster Academy Academic Building THE ACADEMY

Established in 1820
Independent, co-educational boarding/day school
Grades 9-12 and postgraduate
First boarding school partnership with Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
First Independent school to fully integrate laptop program in 1993

Collaborative classroom at Brewster ACADEMICS

Team-based teaching
Collaborative and project-based learning
Interim Studies Program
Multi-level classrooms
Mastery based curriculum
Advanced Placement courses
Academic Support programs since 1975
Integrated social and emotional learning program

View of Pinckney Boathouse and Wolfeboro Bay from Brewster Academy campus THE CAMPUS

80 acres with classic New England facilities
Half mile shoreline on Lake Winnipesaukee
Located in “Oldest Summer Resort in America”
Six lakeside athletic fields
18 student/faculty residences

Brewster students talking on steps STUDENTS

360 Students; 80 percent boarding; 20 percent day
Represent 23 states and 21 foreign countries
35 percent of students receive financial aid

Team meeting at Brewster Academy FACULTY

60 full-time teachers
Student/Teacher ratio 6:1
Seven faculty teams
Brewster Summer Institute for professional development

Student and college counselor in the Brewster College Counseling Office COLLEGE AND BEYOND

100 percent acceptance at four-year colleges and universities
Road Map to College program
High college retention results

Girls' Varsity Soccer on Palazzo Field ATHLETICS

National and New England championship teams
Successful history of college athletic placements
Thirty interscholastic, recreational, and instructional offerings
Only independent school with an outdoor turf and an indoor convertible turf
Nine tennis courts
Indoor rowing tank
200-meter indoor track
Use of 18-hole Clive Clark championship golf course

Students sledding down hill on Brewster campus COMMUNITY LIFE

Community service program
More than 25 clubs and organizations
Spectacular outdoor programs and activities
Challenging student leadership opportunities

Student and arts faculty member in studio art class THE ARTS

Traditional arts courses and the latest in digital arts
Enrichment offerings for afternoon activities
Advanced courses in visual and performing arts
Private instruction offered in voice and instruments
Seasonal theatre productions
Dance instruction by Joffrey Ballet-trained instructor