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The Independent School League (ISL) is an athletic conference of sixteen private college-preparatory schools in Greater Boston. Its parent organization is the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC). [1] Founded in 1948, the ISL sponsors competitions in twenty-five sports. [2]
The Eastern Independent League (EIL) is composed of eleven New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. The EIL's eleven members compete in a number of sports in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC).
St. Mark's is a member of the Independent School League, previously known as the Private School League. St. Mark's and Groton began playing an annual football game in 1886; they contest the fifth-oldest high school football rivalry in the United States. [59]
Tabor Academy is an independent preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts, United States.Tabor is known for its marine science courses. Tabor's location on Sippican Harbor, Buzzards Bay, has earned it the name of "The School by the Sea" and the school continues to operate a 115-foot sail training vessel, the SSV Tabor Boy as a hallmark program of the school.
Although the relationships and rivalries between many of these schools began long before the 20th century, the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council was officially founded in 1942 as an organization of athletic directors from preparatory schools in New England also with two members from Lower Canada.
Milton Academy was founded by Edward Hutchinson Robbins, the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, [1] after the General Court of Massachusetts set up a committee to study options for secondary education for residents of Norfolk County. [2]
Nobles competes in the Independent School League, a group of day and boarding schools in Greater Boston. The school's website says that 74 Nobles teams have won ISL championships and that as of the 2023–24 school year, 87% of the varsity teams "have had a winning record in the past 10 years."
In 1879, Northfield, Massachusetts native Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–99) established the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies (renamed to the Northfield School for Girls in 1944 [2]) in his hometown. Two years later, he established a brother school, the Mount Hermon School for Boys, across the Connecticut River in Gill, Massachusetts. The ...