Eaglebrook School is an independent junior
boarding
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and
day
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school for boys in grades six through nine. It is located in
Deerfield,
, on the
Pocumtuck Range near
Deerfield Academy
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and sited on an campus which is also preserved by the Deerfield Wildlife Trust.
Eaglebrook School is accredited by the
Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE).
Eaglebrook has a student body of approximately 250 boys in grades six, seven, eight, and nine (
forms 3 through 6). Girls may only attend if their parents work or live on campus. Eaglebrook has its own alpine ski area (the
Easton Ski Area), indoor 25-yard six-lane swimming pool, and a state-of-the-art
hockey rink arena indoors.
Whipple Pond, located in the center of campus, is stocked with trout and bass for fishing in the spring and fall. In the winter the pond serves as the water source for snowmaking. The Chase Learning Center, at the heart of campus, includes classrooms and a multi-purpose assembly area which is called the "Pit". There are three other classroom buildings for science, language, and arts, including
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,
woodworking
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shops,
stained glass,
stone carving
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,
black and white photography
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, and many more.
Part of Eaglebrook School's mission is "to help each boy come in to full and confident possession of his innate talents, to improve the skills needed for the challenges of secondary school, and to establish values that will allow him to be a person who respects individual differences and acts with thoughtfulness and humanity."
History
Eaglebrook School was founded in 1922 by Howard Gibbs, a friend of Headmaster
Frank Boyden of Deerfield Academy. Gibbs, who graduated from Amherst, envisioned a younger boy's boarding school that allowed boys to develop their innate abilities, discover new interests, and gain confidence.
Thurston Chase, an Eaglebrook teacher and Williams College graduate, took over the school after Mr. Gibbs' unexpected death. Student enrollment was expanded, and the school grew to include a gymnasium, tennis courts, a learning center, a science building, and four new dormitories.
After Thurston Chase's retirement, his son, Stuart Chase, became the headmaster. The school continued to grow as it bought 500 adjacent acres and added new playing fields, a track, a ski area with snow making and chair lift, a swimming pool, and two new dormitories.
In 2002, Andrew Chase, son of Stuart and Eaglebrook's former director of development, became the current headmaster.
The campus has undergone extensive massive upgrades since the mid-1990s. Baines House and the Thurston C. Chase Learning Center have been renovated. The Schwab Family Pool, and the McFadden Rink at Alfond Arena and a new track and field facility have been built in the late 1990s. Two new dormitories, Kravis House and Mayer House, were completed in the early 2000s. In 2007, a major renovation was undertaken on Flagler House, Halsted House, and Taylor House. The Learning Center was also extensively renovated at that time. During the summer of 2010, the Sports Center was renovated, adding two new international squash courts, bringing the total to six, a new student lounge and student fitness room, and a 50-kilowatt solar panel system on the roof of the gym.
The Edward P. Evans Academic Center for Science, Art, and Music, was opened in 2017.
Governance
Eaglebrook is owned by the Allen-Chase Foundation, a nonprofit educational trust. The foundation receives gifts from parents, friends, and alumni of the school and uses those gifts to enhance facilities, create endowed chairs for many faculty positions, provide a fund for professional development, and maintain a scholarship program.
Dormitories
Dorms at Eaglebrook are a critical part of the community experience. They are distinct communities within the greater Eaglebrook community and compete in inter-dorm competitions such as Field Day and Winter Carnival. Most dorms house students from all forms, with the exception of Eagle's Nest, which only houses 5th and 6th form (8th and 9th grade) students. In addition, day students (those who do not live on campus) are associated with one of the dorms on campus and join advisory groups for home nights, biweekly events in which students don't have homework and instead spend the night eating and socializing with their assigned advisor and fellow students.
Dorms:
*Flagler House
*Halsted House – Named after trustee Henry M. Halsted Jr.
*Kravis House – Named after
Henry Kravis
*Mayer House – Named after trustee Gerry Mayer
*Taylor House
*Eagle's Nest (2018)
Former: The Lodge and Lodge Wing, Keith House, Macy House (Now Taylor House), Baines House, Benton House, Thurber House, Stoddard House, Gibbs House, Bancker House and Wood House (the Cubies)
Athletics
Many sports are offered:
Fall athletic offerings
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Cross Country
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Football
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Mountain Biking
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*
Soccer
*
Water Polo
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*
Pickleball
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Winter athletic offerings
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Basketball
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Ice Hockey
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Skiing
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(competitive and recreational)
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Ski Patrol
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Snowboarding
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Squash
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Swimming
Spring athletic offerings
*
Lacrosse
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Baseball
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*
Golf
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Ultimate Disc
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Eaglebrook Outdoor Program
Eaglebrook School is an independent junior boarding and day school for boys in grades six through nine. It is located in Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the Pocumtuck Range near Deerfield Academy and sited on an campus which is also preserved b ...
Notable alumni
*King
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Michael Beschloss
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Beschloss was born in Chicago, grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois ...
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Barry Bingham Jr.
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Henry Bromell '63, author, television writer/producer
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Nick Bromell
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Doug Burden
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Ennis Cosby
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Cameron Douglas, actor
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Michael Douglas
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'60, actor, director
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Peter Duchin, pianist, orchestra leader
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Chris Hedges
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In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for ''The Christian Science Mo ...
'71, author, war correspondent, activist
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Thomas Hoving
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Early life
He was born in New York City to Walter Hoving, the head of ...
, former director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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J. B. Jackson, writer, publisher, instructor, sketch artist in landscape design
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Henry Kravis '60, investment banker, philanthropist
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Lewis "Scooter" Libby '65
[Nick Bromell]
"Scooter Libby and Me"
, ''The American Scholar
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'' (Phi Beta Kappa
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) (Winter 2007) an
"Scooter's Tragic Innocence:
Why My Friend Scooter Libby Is Loyal to Bush, Cheney and an Arrogant Administration Whose Values Are Not His Own", ''Salon
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* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
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'', January 24, 2007 (Premium content; restricted access)
"Nick Bromell"
, faculty profile at ''umass.edu'' (University of Massachusetts Amherst
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, Amherst, Massachusetts
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); all accessed June 8, 2007.
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Rusty Magee '70
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Laurence Mark '64 film producer
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Mark Whitney Mehran
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Christopher Mellon
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Eugene F. Rice, Jr.
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Rice was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised in Puerto Rico, where ...
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Duncan Sheik '86
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Vin Suprynowicz '65, libertarian newspaper columnist
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Chris Waddell, Paralympics skiing champion
[
* Jason Wu, fashion designer
* Tony Dalton, Mexican-American actor]
References
External links
Eaglebrook School
– Official site
Eaglebrook School
– The Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE)
The Association of Boarding Schools profile
Profile
– boardingschoolreview.com
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Deerfield, Massachusetts
Private middle schools in Massachusetts
Schools in Franklin County, Massachusetts
Boys' schools in the United States
1922 establishments in Massachusetts
Boarding schools in Massachusetts