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Middlesex School Location Concord, Massachusetts, United States Coordinates 42°30′2.3″N 71°22′10.2″W / 42.500639°N 71.3695°WCoordinates: 42°30′2.3″N 71°22′10.2″W / 42.500639°N 71.3695°W Information School type Private, boarding, coeducational Motto Fides, Veritas, Labor Established 1901 Head of school Kathleen C. Giles Faculty ~85 Enrollment ~350 Average class size 12 Student to teacher ratio 1:5 Campus size 350 acres (1.4 km2) Campus type Small town Color(s) Cardinal and Black Mascot Zebra Average SAT scores 2050 [1] Newspaper The Anvil Endowment $160 million Tuition $44,320 (boarder), $35,450(day student) Website http://mxschool.edu/ 
Clay Centennial Center, Middlesex School, Concord, MassachusettsMiddlesex School is an independent secondary school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1901 by a Roxbury Latin School alumnus, Frederick Winsor, who headed the school until 1937. Winsor set up a National Scholarship Program for the school, the first of its kind for a secondary school. In 1974 it became co-educational.
The school was named for the county Middlesex in which it stands, also inspired by the patriotic poem "Paul Revere's Ride": "So, Revere’s 'cry of alarm/ To every Middlesex village and farm,/ A cry of defiance and not of fear'
The campus was designed by Olmsted Brothers, and Peabody and Stearns were the architects used for the main buildings. A recent addition is the Clay Centennial Center, completed in 2003, which hosts science and math classes as well as an observatory with an 18-inch research grade telescope.
The school is a member of the Independent School League and is one of five schools collectively known as St. Grottlesex.
Notable alumni
- Conrad Aiken (1899–1973) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet, wrote "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1943)
- Steve Carell (born 1962) - actor and comedian (The Office, The Daily Show, The 40-year-old Virgin)
- Joseph S. Clark, Jr. (1901–1990) - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and mayor of Philadelphia
- James L. Halperin (born 1952) - numismatist and author (The Truth Machine)
- William Hurt (born 1950) - Academy Award-winning actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
- Mills Lane (Born 1937) - Nevada Judge, D.A, TV personality, professional boxing referee
- Robin Moore (born 1925) - writer who authored the lyrics of "Ballad of the Green Berets" and co-creator of the comic strip "Tales of the Green Beret"
- Bill Richardson (born 1947) - Governor of New Mexico and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
- Jessica Tuck (born 1963) - Actress (One Life to Live, Judging Amy, True Blood)
- Matthew Von Ertfelda (born 1969) - runner-up contestant on the TV show "Survivor: The Amazon"
- William Weld (born 1945) - Governor of Massachusetts
- Template:Bret Stephens (born 1973) - foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal and deputy editorial page editor
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Categories:- Boarding schools in Massachusetts
- High schools in Massachusetts
- Private schools in Massachusetts
- Preparatory schools in Massachusetts
- Independent School League
- Educational institutions established in 1901
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Peabody and Stearns buildings
- Cummings and Sears buildings
- Co-educational boarding schools
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