Editing Phillips Exeter Academy (section)

==Academics==

=== Courses and grading ===
Exeter uses an 11-point grading system, in which an A is worth 11 points and an E is worth 0 points.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Phillips Exeter Academy: 2024-25 Profile for Colleges |url=https://exeter.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-25_PEA_College_Profile.pdf |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Phillips Exeter Academy}}</ref> The academy's student-teacher ratio is 6:1, and 93% of Exeter faculty have postgraduate degrees.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-31 |title=FACTs brochure |url=https://issuu.com/exeteradmissions/docs/pea_facts_2024-25_issuu_10.18.24 |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Phillips Exeter Academy |publisher=Issuu |language=en}}</ref>

Students who attend Exeter for four years are required to take courses in the arts, classical or modern languages, computer science, English, health & human development, history, mathematics, religion, and science. Most students receive an English diploma, but students who take the full series of Latin and Ancient Greek classes receive a Classical diploma.<ref>{{cite web|title=Courses of Instruction|url=http://www.exeter.edu/academics/8919_8933.aspx|access-date=January 6, 2013|archive-date=January 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115011420/http://www.exeter.edu/academics/8919_8933.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

Although Exeter administrators helped originate the [[Advanced Placement]] program,<ref name=":4" /> Exeter no longer offers AP courses, asserting that some of its courses "go well beyond the AP curriculum" and often reach "the pace and level of college courses."<ref name=":3" /> Exeter was one of the first private schools to begin phasing out AP classes, starting in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zhao |first=Yilu |date=2002-02-01 |title=High School Drops Its A.P. Courses, And Colleges Don't Seem to Mind |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/high-school-drops-its-ap-courses-and-colleges-don-t-seem-to-mind.html |access-date=2024-04-09 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

===Harkness teaching method===
All classes at Exeter are taught seminar-style around [[Harkness table|Harkness Tables]] with no more than 10-12 students per class period. No classrooms have rows of desks or chairs, and lectures are uncommon. The completion of the Phelps Science Center in 2001 enabled all science classes, which previously had been taught in more conventional classrooms, to be conducted around the same Harkness Tables.<ref>{{cite book|last=Crosbie|first=Michael J.|title=Architecture for science|year=2004|publisher=Images Publ|location=Mulgrave, Vic.|isbn=978-1-920744-64-9|page=192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ppa-moZjIAC&pg=PA193|access-date=September 24, 2016|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418122411/https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ppa-moZjIAC&pg=PA193|url-status=live}}</ref> Elements of the Harkness Method, including the Harkness Table, are now used in many independent schools around the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=St. Paul's School ~ Our Academic Program|url=http://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6187|access-date=January 2, 2013|archive-date=February 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214011312/http://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6187|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harknessinstitute.org/Learning_process.html|title=We learn by doing!|website=Harknessinstitute.org|access-date=January 2, 2013|archive-date=May 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504234830/http://www.harknessinstitute.org/Learning_process.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Test scores===
The Class of 2024's average combined [[SAT]] score was 1440 (717 reading, 723 math). Although Exeter does not offer AP courses, its students may take AP exams if they wish; the Class of 2023's pass rate was 94%.<ref name=":3" />

===Notable faculty===
{{Main|List of Phillips Exeter Academy people#Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy}}

* Founder of the Religion department [[Frederick Buechner]], minister and author<ref>''Now and Then''. Repr. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991. p. 47</ref>
* Instructor in History [[Michael Golay]], historian and author<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Michael-Golay/73457659|title=Michael Golay|website=Simon & Schuster|language=en|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410134947/http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Michael-Golay/73457659|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Instructor in English [[Todd Hearon]], poet<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/todd-hearon|title=Todd Hearon|date=April 9, 2018|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>
* Instructor in English [[Willie Perdomo]], poet and children's book author<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fosters.com/news/20180227/berwick-academy-to-host-poet-author-willie-perdomo|title=Berwick Academy to host poet, author Willie Perdomo|work=fosters.com|access-date=April 10, 2018|language=en|archive-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410135806/http://www.fosters.com/news/20180227/berwick-academy-to-host-poet-author-willie-perdomo|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Instructor in Mathematics Zuming Feng, U.S. [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] Program team coach from 1997 to 2013<ref>{{cite web |url=http://metroplexmathcircle.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/february-7-2009-dr-zuming-feng/ |title=Brief Biography of Zuming Feng from the University of Texas at Dallas |publisher=Metroplexmathcircle.wordpress.com |access-date=August 27, 2012 |date=February 3, 2009 |archive-date=April 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406150643/http://metroplexmathcircle.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/february-7-2009-dr-zuming-feng/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Instructor in Mathematics [[Gwynneth Coogan]], Olympic athlete<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.exeter.edu/people/gwynneth-coogan-%E2%80%9983|title=Gwynneth Coogan '83|website=Phillips Exeter Academy|language=en|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410135555/https://www.exeter.edu/people/gwynneth-coogan-%E2%80%9983|archive-date=April 10, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Instructor in Music [[Marilinda Garcia]], former member of the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]] and [[harp]] player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130817/NEWHAMPSHIRE1411/130819402/0/NEWS04 |title=Salem's Rep. Garcia named Republican rising star &#124; New Hampshire Salem Observer |publisher=Unionleader.com |date=August 17, 2013 |access-date=October 23, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011624/http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130817/NEWHAMPSHIRE1411/130819402/0/NEWS04 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Off-campus study===
During the tenure of Exeter's tenth principal, [[Richard W. Day (educator)|Richard W. Day]], the Washington Intern Program and the Foreign Studies Program began.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://pdf.phillipian.net/1973/05311973.pdf|title=Exeter Principal R.W. Day Resigns For New Career|date=May 31, 1973|work=[[The Phillipian]]}}</ref> Exeter offers the Washington Intern Program, where students intern in the office of a senator or congressional representative.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://exeter.edu/news/capitol-experience|title=A Capitol Experience|work=Phillips Exeter Academy|access-date=April 10, 2018|language=en|archive-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410135825/https://exeter.edu/news/capitol-experience|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1981/06/07/personal-glimpses-of-washington/f7822b61-5ce3-4360-9fa5-46e462190117/|title=Personal Glimpses of Washington|last1=Selden|first1=Nathan R. W. |date=June 7, 1981|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=April 10, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410201555/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1981/06/07/personal-glimpses-of-washington/f7822b61-5ce3-4360-9fa5-46e462190117/|url-status=live}}</ref> Exeter also participates in the [[Milton Academy]] Mountain School program,<ref name=Courses-1718 /> which allows students to study in a small rural setting in [[Vershire, Vermont]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mountainschool.org/school-history/|title=School History|website=The Mountain School|language=en-US|access-date=November 28, 2017|archive-date=December 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228113743/http://www.mountainschool.org/school-history/|url-status=live}}</ref> The academy currently sponsors trimester-long foreign study programs in [[Grenoble]], [[Tema]], [[Tokyo]], [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[Eleuthera]], [[Taichung]], [[Göttingen]], [[Rome]], [[Cuenca, Ecuador|Cuenca]], and [[Callan, County Kilkenny|Callan]];<ref name=Courses-1718>{{Cite web|url=https://www.exeter.edu/sites/default/files/documents/PEA-COI-17-18-Sept-2.pdf|title=2017–2018 Courses of Instruction|access-date=November 29, 2017|archive-date=September 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928150215/https://www.exeter.edu/sites/default/files/documents/PEA-COI-17-18-Sept-2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as school-year abroad programs in Beijing, [[Rennes]], [[Viterbo]], and [[Zaragoza]].<ref>{{cite web|title=School Year Abroad – History |url=http://www.sya.org/s/833/index.aspx?sid=833&gid=1&pgid=730 |access-date=January 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214171807/http://www.sya.org/s/833/index.aspx?sid=833&gid=1&pgid=730 |archive-date=December 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sya.org/schools|title=Schools - School Year Abroad|website=www.sya.org|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> The academy also offers foreign language summer programs in France, Japan, Spain, and Taiwan.