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Fast Facts about Deerfield Academy

Founded: 1797
Head of School: Margarita O'Byrne Curtis
Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts
Grades: 9-12 and a post graduate year
Enrollment: While the enrollment at Deerfield varies slightly each year, the target enrollment of the school is 620 students. Approximately 74 day students attend Deerfield, and our population is 50/50 male/female. US: 38 states; international: 88 students from 25 countries
Admission: Applications, 2069; Admitted, 287; Matriculated, 187
Tuition: For the 2010-2011 school year: Boarding $43,800; Day: $31,400; Town of Deerfield Day Student: $14,550. Fees: Health Center, Boarding $390 (Day $165), Books, $910. Technology Fee for the Laptop Program, $675.
Financial Aid: $6.6 million per year to 35% of our students
Faculty: 114
Degrees Held: Bachelors, 114; Masters, 65; Doctorates, 19
Average class size: 12
Student/Teacher Ratio 6/1
Courses: 189
Homework: Approximately 20 hours per week
Classes: Five academic classes required, students may petition for a sixth
Colleges: Most attended colleges between 2006-2010
  • Bowdoin
  • Brown
  • Columbia
  • Cornell
  • Dartmouth
  • Georgetown
  • Harvard
  • Middlebury
  • U.Penn
  • Princeton
  • Williams
  • Yale
Campus: 280 acres
Dormitories 18
Athletic Facilities: 90 acres of fields, 24 tennis courts, hockey rink, two gymnasiums with three basketball courts, the Dewey Squash Center with ten international squash courts, fitness center, the Koch Pool (largest prep-school natatorium in New England with eight-lane 25-yard pool and separate diving well), a new eight-lane track with 10mm full pour track surface, two synthetic turf fields including a Sportexe Victory Turf surface primarily for field hockey (the varsity team occupies it in the fall) and a Sportexe Powerblade monofilament surface that is multipurpose.

The Boathouse - located on the Connecticut River, is a 5900 square foot facility housing 20 rowing shells ranging from singles to eights. Two team rooms are equipped with ergs, free weights, and exercise and video equipment.
Co-Curriculars: If not involved in a sport, students are required to do an extra-curricular activity. Options include dance, community service, acting, tech crew for the play, outdoor skills (camping, canoeing, etc.), and many others.
Community Service: Students serve as mentors to Deerfield elementary school children, help at a shelter for transient populations, build homes for Habitat for Humanity, visit nursing home residents, help at the Food Bank, serve as Big Brothers and Big Sisters in the Franklin County Big Brother/Big Sister Program, and more. During school vacations, students can participate in numerous international service programs.
Dining: There are seven sit-down family style meals a week in which nine students and a faculty member are assigned to a table. They stay with this table for all sit-down meals for a three-week period.