Tilton School is an independent, coeducational,

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in Tilton,

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, serving students from 9th to 12th grade and

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students. Founded in 1845, Tilton's student body in the 2021-22 academic year consisted of 61 day students and 129 boarding students. The typical student enrollment includes representation from 15-20 states and 10-15 countries.

History

Tilton School, a

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in New Hampshire, was founded in 1845 by a group of local leaders and members of the

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. Their goal was to promote literary and scientific knowledge among the youth. The school was originally named the New Hampshire Conference Seminary of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was located in the town of

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. In the first year of the school, the seminary's enrollment consisted of 130 students, (74 males, 56 females). Most students were from neighboring towns, but some traveled from as far as

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and

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to attend the new Methodist school. After a number of setbacks, including a fire that destroyed the first school building, the school moved across the

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to its current location in Tilton.Like many town academies in New England, Tilton School was a

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 ...

college preparatory boarding school with students from all over the world. It also served as the public high school for the towns of Northfield, Tilton and Sanbornton until 1939. During this time, students were able to choose a college preparatory or a general course of study. In addition to granting high school degrees, Tilton School awarded a number of other degrees, including college diplomas when the seminary included a

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from 1852 to 1903. Tilton School also functioned as a junior college which awarded men their Associate Degree from 1936 until 1958. Tilton School had a lower and a middle school at different times in its early history. The biggest change in the school's history occurred in 1939: a local school district formed, and Tilton School no longer served as the towns' high school. Tilton also stopped accepting female students at this time. Tilton School was then an all-boys preparatory boarding school until 1970. During this period, the school underwent major changes, including the addition of a new gymnasium, library, chapel, dormitory, and the purchase of of land adjacent to campus. Tilton School's return to its coeducational roots in 1970 led to more changes. In subsequent years, two girls' dorms (Moore Hall and Maloney Hall) were built, and more academic and athletic facilities were added to campus. In 2013,

Chris Burch J. Christopher Burch (born March 28, 1953) is the founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital, a firm based in New York City that manages venture investments and brand development,artificial turf field on the Hill. This gift is the largest single donation in the school's history. Before the construction of Burch Field, all outdoor sports competitions were held at the Charles E. Tilton fields in Northfield. The construction of Burch Field was completed in 2014 and dedicated on October 4 of that year. It is the first playing field contiguous to campus and the first in a series of campus developments known as "The Burch Initiative".

Academics

At Tilton classes are held Monday through Friday; the afternoons are reserved for athletics and club activities. Tilton has a student-to-teacher ratio of 5:1 and an average class size of 11 students. Tilton School

Tilton maintains an active chapter of the

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. The school also inducts a small group of highly ambitious students into the National Honor Society every year. Academic accolades, character prizes, and book awards are distributed annually at the end of the school year during Prize Night.

Athletics

Tilton's athletic program requires students to participate in

intramural Intramural sports are recreational sports organized within a particular institution, usually an educational institution, or a set geographic region. The term, which is chiefly North American, derives from the Latin words ''intra muros'' meaning " ...

or interscholastic athletic programs. The school offers 16 interscholastic sports with teams at the varsity and junior varsity level as well as intramural sports squads and opportunities for independent study.

Interscholastic sports

Fall * Coed Cross Country *

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

* Coed Mountain Biking * Boys

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

* Girls

Winter * Boys

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

* Girls

* Boys

Ice Hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

* Girls

* Coed

Snowboarding Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...

Spring *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

* Boys

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

* Girls

* Coed

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

* Boys

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Girls

Opponents

Tilton School competes in the

Lakes Region League The Lakes Region League is composed of eight New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. Its members are also members of the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC). The league's name comes from the ...

, which consists of seven boarding schools in New England that compete athletically and academically. Tilton is also a member of the

New England Preparatory School Athletic Council The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) is an organization that serves as the governing body for sports in preparatory schools and leagues in New England. The organization has 169 full member schools as well as 24 associate ...

(NEPSAC), as well as the Evergreen League for football. In 2008 Tilton and

New Hampton School New Hampton School is an independent college preparatory high school in New Hampton, New Hampshire, United States. It has 305 students from over 30 states and 22 countries. The average class size is eleven, and the student-faculty ratio is five ...

resumed a long-standing rivalry known as the Powder Keg. The competition between the two schools dates back to 1895 and is among the oldest rivalries in prep school athletics. Tilton has now lost the Powder Keg for eight straight years, with the Rams last win coming in 2011. Other traditional athletic opponents include

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, St. Paul's School, St. Mark's School,

Kents Hill School Kents Hill School (also known as Kents Hill or KHS) is a co-educational, independent college-preparatory school for boarding and day students. Kents Hill is located in Kents Hill, Maine, 12 miles west of the state capital of Augusta. It is the 30 ...

Cushing Academy Cushing Academy is a private, coeducational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States. It serves approximately 400 students in grades 9–12 and a postgraduate year. History Cushing ...

, and other prep and boarding schools from across the northeast.

Championships

Since 2010, the girls' varsity basketball team has won four Class B NEPSAC championships, most recently in 2016 and 2017. The girls' varsity basketball team has also won the

Championship every year since 2010. In 2009, the boys' varsity basketball team won the National Prep Championship, and more recently, NEPSAC championships in 2015 and 2018. In 2008 and 2014, the boys' varsity soccer team won NEPSAC championships, and in 2007, the varsity football team went undefeated (9-0) and won a NEPSAC championship. The boys' varsity baseball team won back-to-back Lakes Region championships in 2014 and 2015. Girls' varsity softball most recently won the Lakes Region Championship in 2014.

School life

Students may participate in intramural sports, including club hockey, basketball, squash, dodgeball, skiing, rock climbing, hiking, and dance. Clubs offered include ceramics, studio art, newspaper (''The Tiltonian''), photography, community service, outdoor program, yearbook (''Tilton Tower''), graphic design, Tilton Activity Board (TAB), student government, ''Parnassus'' (Tilton School's literary and art magazine), health and wellness, and peer counseling. The Tilton theater group performs three shows a year (fall, winter, and spring) in Hamilton Hall, and typically the winter performance is a musical.

Community service

Over 4,300 hours of

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are completed yearly at Tilton School through its community service program. Tilton students often work closely with the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton, as it is near the campus. Every April, there is an All School Community Service Day in which advisory groups spend their day in the local community helping local residents and businesses complete their spring cleaning. Each year, a group of students travel to the

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on their spring break in March to work with the Batey Foundation and help build community centers in impoverished areas.

Campus

Tilton School sits on on a hill overlooking the village of Tilton. The campus comprises more than 15 buildings, including five residential

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, a multi-purpose athletics center, an indoor ice hockey arena, several academic buildings, a school chapel, library, and visual arts center. Skinner Tower, constructed in 2007 and designed by

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, is located just west of Plimpton Hall and connects to that building. Skinner Tower was named after

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, the first civilian governor of

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and one of Tilton's most distinguished

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. It is a , wireless building that is four stories high. The atrium of the tower is used as a common space for students during free periods, as an art gallery, and sometimes as a dance floor for school socials. Skinner Tower is home to the Davis Lecture Hall, a 100-seat,

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-certified lecture hall which is used as a classroom and venue for speakers and presentations. The first floor comprises a biology laboratory (complete with two-story greenhouse), a chemistry laboratory, and the 9th grade FIRST Program seminar room with a connecting outdoor classroom space. The second floor houses the physics laboratory, math classrooms, and integrated math/science faculty work spaces, which enhance cross-discipline collaboration, as well as the Head of School and Assistant Head of School offices. The third floor has the world languages classrooms and language laboratory and resource rooms, as well as the Center for Academic Achievement, which encompasses 10 one-on-one tutorial rooms, computer lab and common space. Maloney Hall, also constructed in 2007, occupies and houses 20 senior girls, as well as three faculty apartments. There is a recreation room and two-story common room with a fireplace and a kitchenette, as well as laundry and storage facilities. Double rooms all share a bathroom, and proctors' rooms have a private bathroom, the top-floor private bathroom with a skylight as well. The new dormitory marks a shift in housing toward smaller, family-style living. Knowles Hall is the oldest building and the center of Tilton's campus for over 120 years. It houses over half of the student body. The East side of Knowles houses junior boys, the West side of Knowles houses freshman and sophomore girls, and the entire 1st floor of Knowles houses sophomore boys. Knowles Lobby is a popular hangout spot for students and is also occasionally the venue of student socials. Beaumont Hall has two functions. The upper floors of Beaumont Dormitory are the main residential rooms for 9th-grade boys. The ground floor houses the school's main dining room. Beaumont is attached to Knowles Hall. It was built in 1909, when the current dining room replaced a smaller, wooden structure. Tilton Hall was originally built by Charles E. Tilton in 1861. Tilton School purchased the building 101 years later. Tilton Hall, or "the Mansion", currently houses the Lucian Hunt Library. In 1980, the attached carriage house was renovated to house the Helene Grant Daly Art Center. It is listed on the

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. George L. Plimpton Hall, built in 1926, houses the majority of Tilton's classrooms, the Admission Office, and the administrative offices, including Tilton's College Counseling Center. Plimpton Hall is also home to Tilton's Innovation Lab, which includes a 3D printer. Pfeiffer Hall, constructed in 1938 and 1939, presently serves as a dormitory for 12th-grade boys. Moore Hall, constructed in 1988, serves as a dormitory for 11th grade and post-graduate girls. Hamilton Hall is home to Tilton's theater and music departments, and was originally the school's gymnasium and recreation center before the Memorial Athletic and Recreational Center was built. The Fred Andrew Smart Chapel was transported in 1965 to Tilton's campus from its original home in

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. The building serves as a school meeting place and is often a gallery for student art. Burch Field, completed in October 2014, serves as a multi-purpose sports facility. This artificial turf field is used by Field Hockey, Women's Soccer, Football, Women's and Men's Lacrosse, and occasionally Men's Soccer. The facility includes bleachers, a press box, and lighting for contests that take place at night. Construction began when alumnus J. Christopher Burch ('72) made the largest single donation in the school's history in the spring of 2013. The Memorial Gymnasium was built shortly after

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to honor Tilton students who had served and died for their country. In 1998, the building was completely renovated and rededicated as the Memorial Athletic and Recreational Center (MARC). In the building is a memorial honoring Tilton students who have died in battle, dating back to the

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era. The memorial also displays

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's ('66)

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, which was given to the school by his family. The building contains two basketball courts, a climbing wall, a weight room, six locker rooms, a training room, and a student center including a snack bar called Rusty's Den. A 2008 addition has extended the social area of the MARC, adding more couches, a larger television set, a pool table, and a foosball table. The previous wrestling room moved to the second story of the MARC. The John F. MacMorran Field House, originally built in 1978, provided Tilton with its first indoor hockey arena. In 1999, Tilton completed a $2 million renovation of the facility.

Notable alumni

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, Cameroonian basketball player,

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* Michael D. Aeschliman, PhD, literary critic and scholar, Professor Emeritus at

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Henry Moore Baker Henry Moore Baker (January 11, 1841 – May 30, 1912) was a lawyer and politician who served as a member of the New Hampshire House and Senate, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Hampshire. Early life ...

, congressman from

* Albert Batchellor, lawyer, NH politician * J. Christopher Burch, Class of 1972, founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital * Harriette Cooke, first woman to be granted full professorship at a college with a salary equal to that of a man *

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, lawyer *

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, host of the game show ''

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'', reporter and news executive * Dustin Allard Degree, Vermont politician *

(1947–1969), Class of 1966,

recipient * James F. Duffy,

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football coach * E. Maude Ferguson, first woman elected to the New Hampshire Senate *

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, American poet *

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bishop * Brett Hanson, college basketball player *

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, fourth president of the

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* Frederic Lawrence Knowles, poet *

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, basketball player for the

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* Bobby Murray, professional baseball player * Donald M. Murray,

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-winning journalist, columnist for ''

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'' and Professor Emeritus of English at the

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* John Morton, biathlon skier, seven-time Olympian *

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, basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers *

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, basketball player for the New York Knicks *

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, basketball player,

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* Worthy Patterson,

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player * Harl Pease (1917–1942), Medal of Honor recipient and namesake of

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* John Perkins, Class of 1963, author of ''

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'' (Berrett-Koehler, 2004) *

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(1863–1940), writer, book reviewer *

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, architect * Ross Scaife, professor of classics at the

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* E. O. Schwagerl, Bavarian-American landscape architect, designed

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's park system *

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, professional basketball player in the

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, first civilian governor of

* Milford K. Smith, Associate Justice of the

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, hat dealer *

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(1951–2017), American art dealer * Lydia H. Tilton, educator, activist, journalist, poet, lyricist * Luther Tracy Townsend, theologian and professor at

* M. Emmet Walsh, character actor * Henry Gordon Wells, politician, president of the

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* Marcus Zegarowski, professional basketball player

Notable faculty

* Irene Clark Durrell, preceptress *

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, founder of Christian Science (substitute teacher) *

, bishop of the

and The Methodist Church (teacher) * Weldon Haire, public address announcer (basketball coach) *

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(1863–?), educator and author * Richard S. Rust, Methodist preacher (Head of School) * Mike Walsh, ice hockey player (ice hockey coach)

References

* Didsbury, Kendall. ''In the Shadow of the Tower Clock: One Hundred Years in the Life of Tilton School''. 1988. Preface by Michael E. Baker. Tilton School. * Smart, Fred Andrew. ''The Builders of Tilton School: Centennial Record''. 1945. Evans Printing Company; Concord, New Hampshire

External links

Tilton School official website
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