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Choate Rosemary Hall (also known as Choate) is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. It took its present name and coeducational form with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments, The Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in Wallingford, but resident from 1900 to 1971 in Greenwich, Connecticut). At the merger, the Wallingford campus was enlarged with a complex of modernist buildings on its eastern edge to accommodate the girls from Greenwich.
Choate is a member of the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized at a 2006 meeting at Lawrenceville School, when former Choate headmaster Edward Shanahan was appointed its first president. He was succeeded in 2009 by Lawrenceville head Elizabeth Duffy. The member schools are Choate, Phillips Academy (known as Andover), Phillips Exeter Academy (known as Exeter), Deerfield Academy, St. Paul's School, Hotchkiss School, Lawrenceville School, and Northfield Mount Hermon.
Choate is also a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, established in 1966 and comprising Choate, Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Taft School, Loomis Chaffee, and The Hill School.
Choate enrolls 625 boarding and 225 day students representing 40 states and 45 countries. 30 percent of students identify themselves as persons of color. For the 2010–2011 year there were about 1,800 applicants of which22 percent were accepted; the yield from those accepted applicants was 65 percent. The 2010–2011 tuition and fees are $45,070 for boarders and $34,320 for day students. Financial aid totaling $8.5 million was awarded to 33 percent of the student body, the average award being $35,600 for boarders and $22,500 for day students.
The teaching faculty numbers 122 of whom 74 percent hold advanced degrees. Ninety percent of teaching faculty live on campus. There are in addition 46 administrative faculty. The student-faculty ratio is 6:1, and the average class size is 12.
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