Phillips Academy is a co-educational university-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year. The school is in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles north of Boston. Phillips Academy has 1,131 students, and is highly selective, accepting 9% for the 2022–2023 school year. It is part of the Eight Schools Association and the Ten Schools Admissions Organization.
Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational university preparatory private school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, and offers a secondary postgraduate program. Located in Exeter, New Hampshire, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States.
John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).
Gerry Eastman Studds was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first member of Congress to be openly gay. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to what he described as a "consensual relationship" with a 17-year-old page.
Edwin Farnham Butler III is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne.
John Phillips (December 27, 1719 – April 21, 1795) was an early American educator and the cofounder of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, along with his wife, Elizabeth Phillips. He was a major donor to Dartmouth College, where he served as a trustee. He also made significant donations to Harvard College and Princeton University.
John Adams was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was the 4th Principal of Phillips Academy. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus recalls him:
Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule — His most of all whose kingdom is a school.
Margaret Coldwell Hassan is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire from 2013 to 2017.
John Oliver Barres is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who has been serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York State since January 2017. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2017.
Robert F. Bauer is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.
Walter Huston "Cappy" Lillard was an American football coach and educator. He coached the Dartmouth College football team for one season in 1909 and amassed a 5–1–2 record. Lillard taught English and coached football at Phillips Academy, Andover, and later became the headmaster of the Tabor Academy.
The Exeter–Andover rivalry is an academic and athletic rivalry between Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter) and Phillips Academy (Andover). It bears many similarities of tradition and practice to the Harvard–Yale rivalry. Exeter traditionally educated its students as a feeder school for Harvard, much as Andover traditionally educated its students for Yale. Today, Phillipians and Exonians continue to matriculate in large numbers to both Harvard and Yale, as well as many other top universities. The athletic rivalry between these two schools began with baseball, and football soon followed the same year. Today the two schools face each other in several sports every fall, winter, and spring trimester.
Tyler Chapman Tingley is an American educator who has headed four private secondary schools, including The Blake School and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Lisa MacFarlane is an American educator who served as the 15th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Previously she served as the provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of New Hampshire, as well as a teacher of American literature at the university for 28 years.
Albert Cornelius Perkins was an American educator and fourth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy and fourth principal of Adelphi University.
Lewis Perry was an American educator and the eighth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
William Gurdon Saltonstall was an American educator and writer, and the ninth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Charles Everett Fish was an American educator and the sixth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Lincoln W. Caplan, II is an American author, scholar, and journalist. He is the Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
