Enrollment
Total: 577
Boys: 306
Girls: 271
Boarding: 467
Day: 110
Lower Mids (9th grade): 95
Mids (10th grade): 162
Upper Mids (11th grade): 147
Seniors: 173
Geographic Distribution
35 states
28 foreign countries
Students of Color
25%
Admissions 2008-09
New Student Applications: 1,367
New Students Enrolled: 184
Percent from private schools: 40
Percent from public schools: 44
Percent from foreign countries: 16
Tuition 2008-09
Boarding: $41,300
Day: $30,700
Scholarship Information
Percentage on Financial Aid: 33
Total Grants: $5,617,300
Percent of School Budget: 16
Number of Grants: 196
Average Boarding Grant: $28,660
Faculty
Total: 123
Male: 72
Female: 51
Average age: 44
Advanced degrees: 78
Faculty-to-student Ratio
1:6
Average Class Size
12
Academic Courses
220
Volumes in Library
59,000
Advanced Placement
Subjects: 30
Exams given: 510
Average score: 3.9 (out of 5)
Seniors writing exams: 81%
Class of 2008
Average SAT I Verbal: 636
Average SAT I Math: 644
Average SAT I Writing: 641
General Finances
Market Value of the Endowment as of 6/30/08: $187,571,998
Endowment per Student: $325,081
Annual Operating Budget: $32,400,000
Sources of Income (percent of budget)
Annual Fund gifts: 11%
Endowment income: 26%
Tuition, fees, and auxiliary income: 63%
Value of Physical Plant:
$164,410,882
Voluntary Support 2007-08
Annual Fund: $3,418,401
Capital Gifts: $5,025,354
Alumni/ae of Record:
7,992
Campus Size
220 acres
College Acceptances
From 2004-2008, Taft Seniors (on average, 165 per year) have matriculated in greatest numbers at the following colleges and universities: Boston College (25); Middlebury (25); Cornell (24); Georgetown (22); Trinity College (22); Boston University (20); U Penn (18); Harvard (16); Colgate (15); Hamilton (15); NYU (15); Colorado College (14); St. Lawrence (14); Bowdoin (13); Brown (13); George Washington University (13); Colby (12); Connecticut College (11); Dartmouth (11); Davidson (11); Wake Forest (10); Yale (10); Carnegie-Mellon (9); Princeton (9); U of Richmond (9); Bates (8); Bucknell (8); College of William & Mary (8); Lehigh (8); Amherst (7); Gettysburg (7); College of Charleston (7); Hobart and William Smith (7); Johns Hopkins (7); Southern Methodist (7); Syracuse (7); Tulane (7); Skidmore (6); U of Chicago (6); U of Colorado (6); Denison (6); Northeastern (6); Union College (6); U.S. Naval Academy (6); Williams (6); U of Wisconsin (6); Dickinson (5); Wesleyan (6); McGill (5); Mount Holyoke (5); UCONN (5); U of Southern CA (5); UVA (5); Washington University (5); College of the Holy Cross (4); Columbia (4); Duke (4); Emory (4); Fordham (4); Miami University (4); U of Miami (4); Northwestern (4); Notre Dame (4); Reed College (4); Rhodes College (4); Tufts (4); Vanderbilt (4)
- Headmaster - William R. MacMullen '78
- Assistant Headmaster - H. William Davis III
- Director of Admissions - Peter A. Frew '75
- Dean of Students - Carl Carlson
- Dean of Faculty - Christopher Torino
- Dean of Academic Affairs - Jon Willson '82
- Director of Community Service - Elizabeth A. Frew
- Director of Multicultural Affairs - Greg Ricks
- Director of Counseling and Community Health - Jean S. Piacenza '75
- Director of Athletics - David B Hinman '87
- Director of College Counseling - Terence A. Giffen
- Director of Communications - Julie S. Reiff
- Dean of Senior Class - John B. Kenerson '82
- Deans of Upper Middle Class - Kevin Conroy, Ellen Hinman
- Deans of Middle Class - Anna Hastings, Mark Traina
- Deans of Lower Middle Class - Bob Campbell '76, Edie Traina
- Director of Security - Michael Bolton
- Business Manager - Gil Thornfeldt
- Director of Development - Christopher Latham
- Director of Annual Fund - Kelsey K. Pascoe
- Director of Technology - Mark R. Bodnar
- Director of Summer School - Stephen J. McCabe, Jr.
- Director of Taft Education Center - David W. Hostage
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