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Taft Facts 2009-10

Enrollment

Total: 575
Boys: 292
Girls: 283
Boarding: 467
Day: 108
Lower Mids (9th grade): 98
Mids (10th grade): 153
Upper Mids (11th grade): 170
Seniors: 154

Geographic Distribution

34 states
32 countries

Students of Color

25%

Admissions

New Student Applications: 1,350
New Students Enrolled: 186
Percent from private schools: 40
Percent from public schools: 44
Percent from foreign countries: 16

Tuition

Boarding: $43,775
Day: $32,500

Scholarship Information

Percentage on Financial Aid: 38
Total Grants: $6,500,000
Percent of School Budget: 17
Number of Grants: 210
Average Boarding Grant: $29,817

Faculty

Total: 124
Male: 73
Female: 51
Average age: 45
Advanced degrees: 89

Faculty-to-student Ratio

1:6

Average Class Size

12

Academic Courses

220

Volumes in Library

59,500

Advanced Placement

Subjects: 28
Exams given: 536
Average score: 4.0 (out of 5)
Seniors writing exams: 81%

Class of 2009

Average SAT I CR: 640
Average SAT I Math: 653
Average SAT I Writing: 649

General Finances

Market Value of the Endowment as of 6/30/09: $161,889,522
Endowment per Student: $281,547
Annual Operating Budget: $38,240,000

Average Annual Cost per Student: $66,504

Sources of Income (percent of budget)

Annual Fund gifts: 11%
Endowment income: 26%
Tuition, fees, and auxiliary income: 63%

Voluntary Support 2008-09

Annual Fund: $3,551,985
Capital Gifts: $16,702,643

Alumni/ae of Record:

8,233

Campus Size

220 acres


College Acceptances

Over the past five years (2005-2009) Taft students have enrolled in the greatest number at the following colleges or universities:

Amherst (11), Boston College (22), Boston Univ. (19), Bowdoin (10), Brown (10), Bucknell (9), Carnegie Mellon (11), Colby (11), Colgate (15), Colorado College (17), Columbia (13), Connecticut College (12), Cornell (21), Dartmouth (10), Davidson (11), George Washington (14), Georgetown (23), Hamilton (13), Harvard (9), Lehigh (10), Middlebury (19), NYU (14), Princeton (10), St. Lawrence (14), Trinity College (23), UPenn (19), Univ. of Richmond (10), Wake Forest (15), and 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 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
  • Deans of Senior Class - John B. Kenerson '82, Nikki Willis
  • Deans of Upper Middle Class - Kevin Conroy, Ellen Hinman
  • Deans of Middle Class - Rachael Ryan, 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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