Fay School is an independent,

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

day and boarding school, located on a campus some from

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

Southborough, Massachusetts Southborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It incorporates the villages of Cordaville, Fayville, and Southville. Its name is often informally shortened to Southboro, a usage seen on many area signs and maps, though ...

. Fay opened its Primary School (pre-K to grade two) in 2010 and moved its 6th grade into the Lower School program (now 3rd to 6th) in the 2012–13 school year.

History

Fay school was founded in 1866 by sisters Eliza Burnett Fay and Harriet Burnett in a former parsonage of the Unitarian church, across from St. Mark's School, where traditionally Fay students attended secondary school. The first year, the school had five day students and two boarders. At Eliza Fay's death in September 1896, her son, Waldo B. Fay, became headmaster. Under him, the school sizably grew, adding a new dormitory, school room, and library. He was succeeded by Edward W. Fay, Waldo B. Fay's son in 1918. In 1922, the school was officially incorporated, and the ownership of the school was transferred from the Fay family to the newly formed board of trustees. Harrison L. Reinke became the first headmaster not in the Fay family since its foundation in 1942. He was succeeded by A. Brooks Harlow Jr., in 1969. The school became fully coeducational in 1977, having implemented a pilot program for girls in 1972. Girls had previously attended the school as day students through the late 19th century. Stephen V.A. Samborski became the sixth headmaster in 1988, who was followed by Stephen C. White in 1990. The Root Academic Center, the main academic building of the campus, was constructed in 2001. In 2008, Robert J. Gustavson Jr. became the eighth and current headmaster. In 2010, the primary school was opened.

Campus facilities

The school is situated on a 30-acre main campus, with a nearby 36-acre athletic campus. There are ten fields, eight tennis courts, four basketball courts, two pools, and outdoor high and low ropes courses, along with two fitness centers and an indoor rock climbing wall. Its two libraries combined contain over 18,000 volumes. There are six dormitories, where students from 7th to 9th grade may live.

Notable alumni

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(2010), Mandopop singer songwriter *

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(1941), Yale professor, archeologist, Mesoamerican scholar * Robert Daniel (1949), United States representative from Virginia, 1973–1983 * Tarah Donoghue Breed (1997), deputy press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush *

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(1900), member of U.S. House of Representatives * Peter Fonda (1954), actor *

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(1944), Olympic medalist, sailing, 1972 Summer Olympics *

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(1994), actor * C. Boyden Gray (1956), White House counsel, 1989–1993, United States ambassador to the European Union, 2006–2008 * Prince Hashim Al Hussein (1996), prince of Jordan * Princess Iman bint Hussein (1998), princess of Jordan * Heyward Isham (1940), United States ambassador to Haiti, 1974–1977 * James Simon Kunen (1962), journalist, lawyer, writer, author of ''

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(1955), religious scholar, Duke University * David McKean (1972), 22nd United States ambassador to Luxembourg *

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(1958), founder and chairman emeritus of MIT's Media Lab; founder, One Laptop per Child *

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(1909), four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright *

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(1918), United States ambassador to the United Nations, 1960–1961 * Damian Woetzel (1981), principal dancer at New York City Ballet, 1989–2008; seventh president of the

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* Rudi Ying (2014), Chinese professional ice hockey player currently with HC Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Representing China in the 2022 Winter Olympics. *

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References

External links

Fay SchoolJunior Boarding School AssociationBoarding School Review entry
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