We empower students to

School Profile 2019-20 own their learning.

BANCROFT SCHOOL ur students have shaped their education in a supportive Ocommunity that encourages intellectual risk and puts a • PreK–12 independent, co-ed day school premium on strong personal relationships. They can stand on • Located in Worcester, MA their own two feet because they have been allowed to stumble. You won’t find a Bancroft alum on the sidelines, waiting for • Students come from Central MA, MetroWest Boston, others to create solutions. You’ll find them engaging, leading, Northern CT collaborating, and taking thoughtful action on a multitude of • 395 students in three divisions fronts. Bancroft School is designed as a learning laboratory where students ask questions, share ideas, and solve problems through • 191 students in Upper School (9–12) research, experimentation, and reflection. Bancroft graduates • 15 international students in Upper School are ready to make independent decisions and manage multiple • 8:1 average student/teacher ratio priorities because they have had plenty of practice. • 13 students average class size STUDENT LEADERSHIP & • 67% of faculty hold advanced degrees COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Bancroft School is located in Worcester, MA, New England’s • 25% students of color second-largest city, which boasts a socioeconomically and • $3 million in financial aid annually ethnically diverse population of 185,000 and a broad array of cultural and academic opportunities. You may find our students • 40% of students receive financial aid working in a Medical Research Lab, developing materials for the • 100% college acceptance rate Worcester Historical Society, partnering with artists creating murals throughout the city, or teaching fellow students how to • Founded in 1900 engage in the political process. Students also lead 29 different CLASS OF 2019 ACADEMIC STATISTICS clubs within the school. Students are also heavily involved in community service. Notable • 45 Students examples include Bancroft’s popularCARE & Horizons Program • Average GPA: 3.5 after junior year. in which students volunteer their Saturday mornings to mentor local children with significant special needs. The student-led • SAT Scores (Middle 50%): 1330 Math: 640 Worcester Refugee Assistance Program (WRAP) Soccer Project Evidence-Based Reading & Writing: 670 was initially designed by a Bancroft senior during herCo-Op in 2016 as a sports program to serve Burmese refugee children in our • ACT Scores community. Recent student-leaders have expanded the program Mean: 30 to include arts and academics.

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP & COLLEGE COUNSELORS

Trey Cassidy HEAD OF SCHOOL Lisa Baker HEAD OF UPPER SCHOOL Tim Townley DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING Phyllis Barra ASSISTANT COLLEGE COUNSELOR CEEB Code: 222480

Bancroft School | 110 Shore Drive, Worcester, MA 01605 | Tel: 508.854.9228 | Fax: 508.854.9298 | [email protected] GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

• English: 4 years • History: 3 years • Foreign Language: 3 levels of one language, or 2 levels of two languages • Math: 3 years (through Algebra II) • Lab Science: 3 years (Chemistry, Biology, and a third lab science; Physics strongly recommended) • Arts: 1 year of Performing or Visual Arts • Physical Education: 4 semesters • Freshman Seminar • Senior Thesis • Senior Cooperative • CPR Certific tion

GRADING & CLASS RANK SCHEDULE Bancroft does not rank its students. We use a uniform, unweighted marking system ranging from A to F; we do not Bancroft’s Upper School operates on a semester use A+. Students with an overall average of A- achieve High system. Courses run on a seven-day rotating schedule Honors, and those with a B+ average achieve Honors. Bancroft comprising 28 blocks of 75 minutes. Students typically is a member of the national Cum Laude Society. We induct a schedule 22-24 blocks of course time per rotation. maximum of 10% of the junior and 10% of the senior class into the Benefits of this schedule include: Cum Laude Society every spring.

• Greater flexibility and choice in how each student meets the graduation requirements; HONORS & ADVANCED COURSES • Fewer classes each day with more time for in-depth Classes designated as “Honors” are positioning students to engage work; in college-level work before they leave high school. Most of these students will go on to take “Advanced” courses. Students who • Focused time for collaboration with project partners do well in our “Advanced” courses are prepared for upper-level or faculty, independent research, or homework; college courses in these and related departments. Over 65% of • Development of time-management skills and students who take AP exams score 4 or higher. intrinsic self-motivation that will serve students beyond high school; We have various special programs that enhance the Bancroft academic experience. At all levels, we offer strong art and music • Greater opportunity for students to discover new courses which are fully credited academic courses. interests and explore areas of passion. Students can elect junior/senior courses representing a broad range of disciplines, and all graduating seniors write the Senior Thesis, a capstone research paper. Additional advanced and individual work is offered whenever appropriate. For example, inResearch and Scientific Inquiry (RSI) and Research and Historical Inquiry (RHI) advanced students choose a specific topic of interest, conduct year-long experimentation and/or research, and present their deep mastery and research findings at regional, state and national competitions. Advanced foreign language students take immersive, field-oriented courses such asSpanish in a Global Context or Contemporary French Culture. Computer Science and Math students also have the opportunity to take courses beyond the traditional AP curriculum including Algorithms and Data Structures and Advanced Statistics with R Program. UPPER SCHOOL COURSE OFFERINGS 2019-20

NINTH GRADE TENTH GRADE ELEVENTH GRADE TWELFTH GRADE

English Selective (fall) • Cultural Encounters English Selective (fall) in Literature • Detective Fiction • Double Selves in • One City Literature • Dystopian Literature ENGLISH English I English II • Dystopian Literature • Rebels in Literature Four years required • Rebels in Literature Composition & American Literature Argumentation (spring) or (spring) or AP English Literature AP English Language

ADDITIONAL Creative Writing ELECTIVE

Current Events Islamic Studies U.S. History Modern Money: HISTORY World History II Advanced U.S. History Three years required World History I A History of Economics World History II (H) (H) = Honors AP European History Current Events Research and Historical Inquiry

Functions, Statistics and Algebra II MATHEMATICS Geometry Trigonometry (FST) Algebra I Algebra II (H) Three years required Geometry (H) Precalculus (H) Geometry Functions, Statistics and (through Algebra II) Algebra II Statistics Geometry (H) Trigonometry (FST) (H) = Honors Algebra II (H) Calculus Precalculus (H) AP Calculus AB/BC

ADDITIONAL Advanced Statistics with ELECTIVE R Programming

LAB SCIENCE Biology Three years required AP Biology Integrated Chemistry AP Chemistry (Chemistry, Biology, and a AP Physics Environmental Science Chemistry AP Biology third lab science) Research and Scientific Chemistry AP Chemistry* Research and Scientific Inquiry I or II Biology Inquiry I *Chemistry is a prerequisite Physics of Engineering Physics of Engineering for AP Chemistry

ADDITIONAL Marine Science I & II, Psychology I & II, Case Studies in Psychopathology, ELECTIVE Anatomy and Physiology

Computer Science Principles COMPUTER Algorithms and Advanced Engineering Programming Web AP Computer Science Data Structures & Design SCIENCE Applications Engineering & Design

FOREIGN LANGUAGES ARTS PHYSICAL EDUCATION personal and professional SENIOR THESIS interests. Rooted in the Completion of a 300 level Completion of one year The Senior Thesis is the The Class of 2020 was School’s commitment to course in one language, in a Performing or Visual culminating research required to take PE every project-based learning or a 200 level course in Arts course. Advanced project in Bancroft’s semester through the Junior and the greater Worcester two different languages. Visual Portfolio students academic program. This year. community, the Co-op Languages offered: Latin, create a visual art portfolio 10- to 15-page essay combines elements of French, Mandarin and in the fall and a high level challenges students to SENIOR COOPERATIVE an internship, a research Spanish. Seminar courses research-based, artistic choose a topic for research, project, and community are for students who have project for a spring This program, better discover relevant facts and service. Students can completed the 300 level exhibition. The result is known as the “Senior opinions available in print design their own Co-op class and desire an in-depth a solo exhibition of thesis Co-op”, takes students and online, and synthesize experience, or choose from a thematic study in the target level work. out of the classroom their research to support a catalogue of project choices language. during the final semester thesis statement, or guiding at approved organizations of their Senior year, and argument. places them in a real- throughout the area. world work environment that aligns with their COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES & MATRICULATIONS, 2014–2019 Bancroft students were accepted at the following institutions over the past six years. Boldface indicates schools where they chose to matriculate.

Acadia University Fashion Institute of Design and Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder Allegheny College Merchandising, Los Angeles Oberlin Conservatory of Music University of Colorado at Denver American University Fitchburg State University Ohio State University, The University of Connecticut Amherst College Flagler College Ohio Wesleyan University University of Delaware Anna Maria College Florida Institute of Technology Old Dominion University University of Denver Assumption College Florida Southern College Otis College of Art and Design University of Edinburgh, The Auburn University Fordham University Pace University, New York City University of Georgia Babson College Framingham State University Pennsylvania College of Technology University of Hartford Baldwin Wallace University Franciscan University of Steubenville Pennsylvania State University University of Kansas Bard College, NY Franklin & Marshall College Pepperdine University University of Kentucky Barnard College Franklin Pierce University Principia College University of Maine Bates College Furman University Providence College University of Maryland, Baltimore George Mason University Purchase College, State University of County Bennington College George Washington University, The New York University of Maryland, College Park Bentley University Georgetown University Purdue University University of , Berklee College of Music Gettysburg College Quinnipiac University Amherst Binghamton University, SUNY Gonzaga University Reed College University of Massachusetts, Boston Boston College Goucher College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Massachusetts, Boston University Hampshire College Rhode Island College Dartmouth Bowdoin College Harvard College Rhode Island School of Design University of Massachusetts, Lowell Brandeis University Haverford College Rider University University of Miami Brooklyn College of the CUNY High Point University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Michigan Brown University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Roger Williams University University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Bryant University Hofstra University Rollins College University of Missouri Columbia Bryn Mawr College Indiana University at Bloomington Rutgers University-New Brunswick University of New Hampshire at Bucknell University Ithaca College Sacred Heart University Durham Butler University Jacksonville University Saint Anselm College University of New Haven California College of the Arts Jefferson University (Philadelphia Saint John’s University (NY) University of North Carolina at California Institute of the Arts University + Thomas Jefferson Saint Louis University Chapel Hill, The Carleton College University) Saint Michael’s College University of North Carolina at Carnegie Mellon University Johnson & Wales University Salem State University Charlotte Case Western Reserve University Kenyon College Salisbury University University of Oregon Catholic University of America, The King’s College London Salve Regina University University of Oxford (Christ Church) Champlain College Lafayette College Sarah Lawrence College University of Pennsylvania Chapman University Lasell College Savannah College of Art and Design University of Pittsburgh Chatham University Lawrence University School of the Art Institute of Chicago University of Rhode Island Lebanon Valley College School of Visual Arts University of Richmond Clarkson University Lehigh University Seattle University University of Rochester Clemson University Lesley University Seton Hall University University of San Diego Colby College Liberty University Simmons College University of San Francisco Colby-Sawyer College LIM College (Laboratory Institute of Skidmore College University of South Carolina Colgate University Merchandising) Smith College University of Southern California College of Charleston Loyola Marymount University Southern Methodist University University of Southern Maine College of the Holy Cross Loyola University Chicago St. Lawrence University University of St Andrews College of William and Mary Loyola University Maryland Stonehill College University of Tampa Colorado College Marist College Stony Brook University, SUNY University of Tennessee, Knoxville Columbia College Chicago Marquette University Suffolk University University of Texas, Austin, The Columbia University Marymount Manhattan College SUNY Albany University of Toronto Columbus College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and SUNY Buffalo University of Vermont Connecticut College Design SUNY Maritime College University of Virginia Cornell University Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Susquehanna University University of Washington Creighton University Massachusetts Institute of Syracuse University University of Wisconsin, Madison Curry College Technology Temple University Ursinus College Davidson College Massachusetts Maritime Academy The New School Vassar College Dean College McGill University Towson University Villanova University DePaul University McPherson College Trinity College Wagner College Dickinson College MCPHS - Massachusetts College of Tufts University Wake Forest University Drew University Pharmacy & Health Sciences Tulane University Washington and Jefferson College Drexel University Merrimack College Union College (New York) Washington and Lee University Duke University Miami University, Oxford University College of Dublin Washington College Durham University Middlebury College University of Alabama, The Washington University in St. Louis Earlham College Molloy College University of the Arts, The Wellesley College East Carolina University Mount Holyoke College University of Arizona, The Wentworth Institute of Technology Eckerd College Muhlenberg College University of California, Berkeley Wesleyan University Eastern Connecticut State University New England Institute of Technology University of California, Davis Western New England University Elon University New York Institute of Technology University of California, Irvine Westfield State University Emerson College New York University University of California, Los Angeles Wheaton College, MA Emmanuel College Newbury College University of California, Riverside Whittier College Emory University Nichols College University of California, San Diego Worcester Polytechnic Institute Endicott College Northeastern University University of California, Santa Barbara Worcester State University Fairfield University Northwestern University University of Chicago

110 Shore Drive, Worcester, MA 01605 Tel: 508.854.9228 | Fax: 508.854.9298 [email protected] CEEB Code: 222480