The school is a member of the Independent School League. Tradition prohibits students from crossing the Circle to reach the opposite side of the campus. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.5 males. Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. Most of the buildings on campus are situated around the Circle, which is the School's circular common green with a circumference of 1⁄3-mile (0.54-kilometre). [9] Native Americans attacked the town again during the Raid on Groton in 1694 (during King William's War). Tuition, room and board and required fees in 2014–15 amounted to $56,700 (with books extra); 38% of the students receive financial aid. John Crocker, who had been for 10 years the chaplain for Episcopal students at Princeton University. Groton also has over 100 miles of trails. William Lawrence, William Crowninshield Endicott, J.P. Morgan, and his father, Samuel Endicott Peabody, Peabody received pledges of $39,000 for the construction of a schoolhouse, if an additional $40,000 could be raised as an endowment. He himself was a 1918 graduate of Groton School; 15 members of his family were alumni. Groton annually hosts the National Shepley Hill Horse Trials, an equestrian competition. Backed by affluent figures of the time, such as the Rt. It borders the towns of Pepperell, Dunstable, Tyngsborough, Westford, Littleton, Ayer, Shirley, and Townsend. On Groton’s tight-knit campus—the Circle—you will know everyone, and you will be known. The school served all grades until 1915. Middle-income families need to understand that we will help put a Groton education within their reach. Crocker's tenure included the period of the Civil Rights Movement. Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. Visit us here often. Peabody served as headmaster of the school for over fifty years, until his retirement in 1940. Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep (2005) has prompted speculation that the fictitious Ault School, the main setting of the novel, is in fact Groton School, as they bear striking resemblances and Sittenfeld herself attended Groton. Other facilities include the Athletic and Recreation Center, Pratt and O'Brien Rinks and Tennis Center, the Bingham Boathouse, outdoor tennis clay courts and hardcourts, and many faculty homes. The School's buildings include St. John's Chapel, the Schoolhouse, Brooks House and Hundred House Dormitories, the McCormick Library (approximately 60,000 volumes and over 100 periodicals), the Campbell Performing Arts Center, the Dining Hall, the Dillon Art Center and De Menil Gallery. [1] The school is a member of the Independent School League. There were 3,268 households, out of which 46.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.0% were married couples living together, 6.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.4% were non-families. La Groton School est une école privée épiscopalienne située à Groton, dans le Massachusetts (États-Unis).Environ 350 élèves des deux sexes sont inscrits dans cet établissement de l'enseignement secondaire créé en 1884.. Anciens élèves. The population density was 291.3 people per square mile (112.5/km2). [37] The majority of this open space is accessible to the public. In 1704 during Queen Anne's War, a French-Abenaki raid captured three children of Thomas Tarbell and his wife, among others, taking them overland about 300 miles to the Mohawk village of Kahnewake south of Montreal, where they would be held for ransom or adopted into the tribe by individual Mohawk families.