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美国前50顶尖高中排名（上）

　　Business Insider(BI)总部设立在纽约，是近年来美国最具影响力的商业新闻网站。

　　据悉，BI是首家给出全美寄宿中学排名的美国商业机构，自2015年2月首度发布排名后，引起全球与美国教育界人士的广泛关注，2月17日，该机构最新出炉了2016年度的美高排名。该排名对于全世界有志于就读美国顶级寄宿中学的家长来说，具备相当重要的参考价值。

　　50. St. Anne's-Belfield School

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　　Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

　　Endowment: $32 million

　　Acceptance rate: 35%

　　Enrollment: 886

　　Though only 17% of ninth- to 12th-grade students live at St. Anne's-Belfield School, boarders are essential to the school's diversity and inclusivity commitment. St. Anne's-Belfield is also deeply interested in reducing the gender gap in computer-science-related disciplines by mandating technology education courses for all K-12 students, with an emphasis on college prep for the upper school.

　　49. Shattuck-St. Mary's School

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　　Location: Faribault, Minnesota

　　Endowment: $25 million

　　Acceptance rate: 36%

　　Enrollment: 472

　　Shattuck-St. Mary's School takes a unique approach to education with programs that allow students to learn at their own pace. As part of the school's new ScholarShift program, 11th- and 12th-graders take blended classes that officially meet only twice a week, leaving time for students to speak one-on-one with instructors and pursue outside projects. For such projects, students can use the school's weCreate space, which features studios for video editing, music recording, fashion design, and more.

　　48. Indian Springs School

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　　Location: Indian Springs, Alabama

　　Endowment: $12 million

　　Acceptance rate: 52%

　　Enrollment: 299

　　Inspired by the motto "learning through living," Indian Springs School takes education outside of the classroom. For instance, the student government is set up like a small town with a mayor and six commissioners and weekly town meetings, placing decision-making power in the hands of the students. The Indian Springs campus is 15 miles from Birmingham, Alabama's biggest city, and its surrounding mountains, spring lake, and state park give students the chance to further explore outside a traditional academic setting.

　　47. Miss Porter's School

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　　Location: Farmington, Connecticut

　　Endowment: $111 million

　　Acceptance rate: 48%

　　Enrollment: 321

　　Technology plays a prominent role in the curriculum at Miss Porter's School. Every student at the all-girls school must own an iPad, which is used during class and for outside assignments. Starting freshman year, every student also receives formal leadership training, where girls learn skills in areas like decision-making, problem-solving, and strategic planning.

　　46. Portsmouth Abbey School

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　　Location: Portsmouth, Rhode Island

　　Endowment: $45 million

　　Acceptance rate: 37%

　　Enrollment: 360

　　Portsmouth Abbey School boasts 1.24 miles of coastline along Narragansett Bay and houses 70% of its students. The Roman Catholic school is also home to a fully operational, on-campus monastery led by a community of Benedictine monks. The Benedictine ideal of a "community life of work and prayer" informs the school's ethos, which teaches students to balance academics with social and physical activities.

　　45. Millbrook School

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　　Location: Millbrook, New York

　　Endowment: $35 million

　　Acceptance rate: 35%

　　Enrollment: 304

　　Millbrook School still maintains decades-old traditions that help cement each student as a piece of the school's rich history. These traditions range from Friday Night Forums, where students hear from renowned speakers, to intersession, where they spend a week outside the classroom doing things like mastering ballroom dancing or camping in the Adirondacks.

　　44. Tabor Academy

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　　Location: Marion, Massachusetts

　　Endowment: $44 million

　　Acceptance rate: 35%

　　Enrollment: 514

　　Affectionately known as "The School by the Sea," Tabor Academy has a longstanding maritime heritage that permeates its programs and extracurriculars. Experiential learning opportunities for students include marine- and nautical-science studies, traveling to the Virgin Islands on the school's part-classroom, part-vessel schooner, and participating in a collaborative class on the Oyster Farm. Tabor hopes to be internationally recognized for ocean ecology by 2026.

　　43. St. Stephen's Episcopal School

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　　Location: Austin, Texas

　　Endowment: $13 million

　　Acceptance rate: 39%

　　Enrollment: 688

　　St. Stephen's Episcopal School prides itself on strong academics that fully prepare students for college. The school also believes that what happens outside the classroom is equally as important as what happens in it, and provides students with dozens of opportunities to explore extracurricular interests through its advanced film program, intensive theater focus, student dance company, on-campus art gallery, and more.

　　42. Oregon Episcopal School

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　　Location: Portland, Oregon

　　Endowment: $21 million

　　Acceptance rate: 43%

　　Enrollment: 860

　　Oregon Episcopal School is a pre-K through 12th-grade day school with an optional boarding program for grades 9 through 12. The high school's Aardvark Science Exposition is an annual science, engineering, computer-science, and math-research competition where finalists are sent to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest international precollege science competition. Last year, more than a dozen OES students received Grand Award prizes of $500 to $1,000.

　　41. Western Reserve Academy

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　　Location: Hudson, Ohio

　　Endowment: $110 million

　　Acceptance rate: 49%

　　Enrollment: 390

　　Western Reserve Academy boasts small class sizes — 12 students on average — and a low 7-to-1 student-teacher ratio, so every student can get the individual attention they need. The school also sends students to top-notch colleges, including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Northwestern, and Duke.

　　40. Woodberry Forest School

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　　Location: Woodberry Forest, Virginia

　　Endowment: $315 million

　　Acceptance rate: 48%

　　Enrollment: 393

　　In 1889, Woodberry Forest School was founded on the former farm of President James Madison's family. The all-boys campus — where 100% of students board — is in Central Virginia, a few hours' drive from the nation's capital. The boys at Woodberry are taught that honor and moral integrity are the highest virtues a man can possess. To that end, the honor system is the foundation of the Woodberry experience.

　　39. Brooks School

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　　Location: North Andover, Massachusetts

　　Endowment: $75 million

　　Acceptance rate: 25%

　　Enrollment: 352

　　At Brooks School, students are encouraged to fill their schedules with the classes that most interest them, from multivariable calculus to 3-D design to African-American literature. Between their junior and senior years, students can apply for a spot in Brooks' Students on the Forefront of Science program, which matches applicants with internships in cutting-edge science and technology hubs. Past placements have included spots at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

　　38. Suffield Academy

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　　Location: Suffield, Connecticut

　　Endowment: $44 million

　　Acceptance rate: 29%

　　Enrollment: 415

　　In the last 10 years, leadership education and training has taken center stage at Suffield Academy. The school's leadership program emphasizes skill-building and group dynamics tailored to each grade level, ending with a formal leadership experience for seniors. Each year, a selection of Suffield alumni is recognized with the Alumni Leadership Award for exceptional displays of leadership in their careers or humanitarian endeavors.

　　37. Mercersburg Academy

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　　Location: Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

　　Endowment: $244 million

　　Acceptance rate: 44%

　　Enrollment: 440

　　Over the last four years, the most popular colleges attended by Mercersburg Academy graduates have included elite schools like Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh University, and the US Naval Academy. Throughout its history, the school has produced seven Rhodes Scholars, three Medal of Honor recipients, and a Nobel Laureate.

　　36. Westover School

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　　Location: Middlebury, Connecticut

　　Endowment: $61 million

　　Acceptance rate: 46%

　　Enrollment: 210

　　All-girls learning environments emphasize "substance over superficialities," according to Westover School, where girls graduate as leaders with a strong sense of self-worth. The school also has a standout Women in Science and Engineering program, known as WISE, that has sent graduates on to top-tier science and engineering programs at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.