SSAT Featured School #1: Pingree

In our Featured School Series, we’ll be profiling some of the schools that use the SSAT as part of their admissions package. Throughout these profiles, we hope to demonstrate the enormous diversity of competitive schools in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The first school we chose to examine is Pingree School in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Let’s take a look!

Pingree:

Nestled among the farms and forests of northeastern Massachusetts, Pingree began as a school for girls in 1961. The school gets its name from the Pingree family, who generously donated their fifty acre homestead to house a school. The ninth through twelfth grade high school has been growing ever since, expanding to all genders in 1971 and expanding its facilities to meet the needs of a diversifying student body. Today, Pingree enrolls nearly 350 high schoolers at its spacious day-school campus.

Fast Facts:

• Pingree draws most of its student population from western Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
• Due to its distance from central Boston, Pingree isn’t quite as competitive as some other top private day schools. That being said, Pingree draws many applicants with its idyllic rural setting and quality academic and athletic programs.
• Students applying to Pingree can take the SSAT or ISEE. To have the best chance at acceptance, applicants should aim for the 70th percentile or above on these standardized tests.
  
  

Check out our full profile of Pingree here!