Northfield Mount Hermon vs. Phillips Academy Andover

Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) is an independent boarding and day school serving 630 students in grades 9 through 12, plus a postgraduate year. We offer an advanced educational experience in a student-centered, inclusive community that prioritizes academic excellence.

As students learn, they develop the skills and the resolve necessary to live with humanity and purpose.

At NMH, we educate our students' heads, hearts, and hands, preparing them to be citizens and leaders who learn with passion, lead with intention, and act with humanity.

We are located on a serene, wooded 1,353-acre campus in Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley.

A Place of Limitless Opportunities -- you come to Andover because of the 1,100 other students who come to Andover.

They are, as our founding charter calls for them to be, "youth from every quarter." They`re talented in quirky and serious ways, they have ideas and opinions like- but mostly unlike-yours, they have fascinating histories and surprising ambitions and generous hearts.

They come because they love ideas and learning and discovering.

And they come because maybe you will be here too. One of the Latin mottoes on our seal translates as "the end depends on the beginning." Andover is a place where we`re always beginning.

We`re always discovering new opportunities, experimenting with a new approach, finding courage to take risks.

We`re always looking for new ways to reach out to people in need, to work together with new communities.

Always making room for you to be your most honest, authentic, daring self. Imagine teachers who give you the freedom to think openly and deeply, to question and make mistakes.