Concord Academy VS. Kent School

Cammum
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:29:59 +0000

Concord has a more “alternative” feel than many other boarding schools and easy access to Boston and Cambridge contribute to this.
Concord has increased its support for sports in recent years–members of the class of 2007 are playing on college teams in sports like soccer, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, and alpine skiing, for the most part at NESCAC schools. They have also acquired a nearby farm to add 10 more acres of athletic fields to the campus.
The school is accurately seen as very academic—the school’s core value is “learning for learning’s sake” and average SAT scores are really high—but it’s at the same time very informal. The revisit day will give a good sense of this.