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Great Bay Charter School (H) → Seacoast Performance Academy → Exeter High School → Learning Skills Academy → Epping High School → Sanborn Regional High School → Seacoast Learning Collaborative → Oyster River High School →📋 At a glance
- 🏆 26 National Merit Semifinalists last year
- 📝 SAT avg 1490 (25-75: 1440–1550)
- 📝 ACT avg 34.0 (25-75: 32–35)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Phillips Exeter Academy compares for families
Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.
- ▸ NationallySAT mean 1490 (≈ top 3% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 34.0 (≈ top 1%) · 26 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers) · Top 5% of the 218 curated private schools in our database on SAT mean.
- ▸ LocallyNH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Great Bay Charter School (H), Seacoast Performance Academy, Exeter High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Enrollment trend & projection
Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.
For a more current snapshot, see Phillips Exeter Academy's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.exeter.edu/admissions/school-profile ↗
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.4%/year, projecting from 2022's 1,064 students:
≈ 21 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At tuition per student, the 21 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $336,000/year in tuition at risk.
Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Bay Charter School (H) Exeter |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 94 | -2.1% |
| Seacoast Performance Academy Exeter |
Private | 1.2 | 75 | — |
| Exeter High School EXETER |
Public | 3.5 | 1,348 | -10.8% |
| Learning Skills Academy Rye |
Private | 7.6 | 58 | -6.5% |
| Epping High School Epping |
Public | 7.6 | 213 | -13.1% |
| Sanborn Regional High School Kingston |
Public | 7.7 | 448 | -20.3% |
| Seacoast Learning Collaborative Newton |
Private | 10.0 | 44 | — |
| Oyster River High School Durham |
Public | 11.2 | 825 | -3.7% |