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Taft Facts 2011-12

Enrollment

Total: 580
Boys: 300
Girls: 280
Boarding: 477
Day: 103
Lower Mids (9th grade): 101
Mids (10th grade): 147
Upper Mids (11th grade): 159
Seniors: 173

Geographic Distribution

34 states
30 countries

Students of Color

28%

Admissions

New Student Applications: 1,620
New Students Enrolled: 199
Percent from private schools: 41
Percent from public schools: 44
Percent from foreign countries: 15

Tuition

Boarding: $46,500
Day: $34,400

Scholarship Information

Percentage on Financial Aid: 37
Total Grants: $6,760,000
Number of Grants: 216
Average Grant: $31,300

Faculty

Total: 127
Male: 70
Female: 57
Average age: 46
Advanced degrees: 89

Faculty-to-student Ratio

1:5

Average Class Size

12

Academic Courses

200

Volumes in Library

59,500

Advanced Placement

Subjects: 29
Exams given: 676
Median score: 4 (out of 5)
Seniors writing exams: 88%

Class of 2011

Mean SAT I CR: 647
Mean SAT I Math: 656
Mean SAT I Writing: 662
Mean Total: 1964

General Finances

Market Value of the Endowment as of 6/30/11: $203,850,779
Endowment per Student: $351,467
Annual Operating Budget: $41,843,525

Average Annual Cost per Student: $73,410

Sources of Income (percent of budget)

Annual Fund gifts: 9%
Endowment income: 24%
Tuition, fees, and auxiliary income: 67%

Voluntary Support 2010-11

Annual Fund: $3,815,989
Capital Gifts: $13,530,795

Alumni/ae of Record:

8,534

Campus Size

224 acres


College Acceptances

Over the past five years (2007-2011) Taft students have enrolled in the greatest number at the following colleges or universities:

Amherst, 14; Bates, 6; Boston College, 19; Boston Univ., 14; Bowdoin, 15; Bucknell, 12; Carnegie Mellon, 9; Colby, 12; Colgate, 15; Colorado College, 14; Columbia, 14; Connecticut College, 12; Cornell, 22; Dartmouth, 10; Denison, 5; Emory, 6; Fairfield, 6; Franklin and Marshall, 7; Georgetown, 24; Gettysburg, 12; Hamilton, 9; Harvard, 5; Hobart and William Smith, 8; Johns Hopkins, 5; Lehigh, 10; Middlebury, 13; Mount Holyoke, 5; New York Univ., 17; Northeastern, 8; Northwestern, 6; Occidental, 5; Princeton, 8; Reed, 8; Southern Methodist, 8; St. Lawrence, 16; Stanford, 7; Syracuse, 6; George Washington, 24; Trinity College, 26; Tufts, 14; Union 5; UC Berkeley, 5; Univ. of Chicago, 6; Univ. of Colorado, 5; Univ. of Michigan, 5; Univ. of Pennsylvania, 14; Univ. of Richmond, 6; Univ. of Vermont, 5; Univ. of Virginia, 8; Vanderbilt, 8; Vassar, 6; Villanova, 8; Wake Forest, 15; Wesleyan, 11; Williams, 9; Yale, 10.


  • 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 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 Reiff
  • Deans of Senior Class - Alison Carlson, Jack Kenerson '82
  • Deans of Upper Middle Class - Shannon Lenz, Will Orben '92
  • Deans of Middle Class - Jeremy Clifford, Jennifer Reilly
  • Deans of Lower Middle Class - Bob Campbell '76, Rachael Ryan
  • Director of Security - Michael Bolton
  • Business Manager - Gil Thornfeldt
  • Director of Development - Christopher Latham
  • Director of Annual Fund - Kelsey K. Pascoe
  • Director of Technology - Charles Thompson
  • Director of Summer School - Tom Antonucci
  • Director of Taft Education Center - Al Reiff '80
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