SALEM ACADEMY – Winston-Salem, NC Private Boarding School School Profile www.visitwinstonsalem.com Population 225,000 Salem Academy was established in 1772 and offers college preparatory education for girls in grades 9-12. With twenty AP and honors courses offered, academic achievement is at the center of the school. Sports, theatre, music and the arts, community work - all of these are important because they Salem Winston-Salem bring fullness and happiness into the lives of the students. The school campus offers college level athletic facility; fine arts center with two performance auditoriums and a black box theater. Salem’s AP English Literature teacher and Director of Studies is one of 8 people across the United States who write the AP exam. In addition, she serves as a question leader, one of the highest levels of AP exam readers. In 2012 the average SAT was 1820 and the graduating class was awarded 1.1 million in university scholarships! In Winston-Salem Airport Code – GSO Number of Students School Website Teacher/Student Ratio 160 www.salemacademy.com 1:7 Dormitories and Student Residences Athletics Students live two to a room. Some of the dorm rooms are Girls Fall Field Hockey, Tennis, Volleyball, Cross suite-style, with two roommates sharing a bathroom with Country two other roommates. Others have a hall bath. All dorm Winter Swimming, Basketball, Fencing rooms have two beds, two desks, two dressers, and two Spring Soccer, Track, Golf closets. Extracurricular Activities Foreign Languages Student Government, Academic Honor Societies, Key Club Latin, Spanish (Community Service), Film Club, Language Clubs, Equestrian, Dance Classes, Dances with Boys Schools, Ski Trips, Sporting Advanced Placement Courses Events, Theater, Symphony, Ballet Performances, Museums, English Literature and Composition, English Language Hiking, and Shopping and Composition, US History, World History, Spanish, Biology, Minimum TOEFL 70 Chemistry, Statistics, Calculus ESL Available/Level Yes, Intermediate to Advanced AB, Calculus BC Arts Theater, Visual Art, Chorus College preparatory education for girls in small class size setting. Welcome to Salem Academy! University Acceptance Rate 100% University Acceptances Wake Forest University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dartmouth College, College of William and Mary, Duke University, Middlebury College, Davidson College, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in Saint Louis, UCLA, Pratt Institute, New York University, Arizona State University, Emory University, Boston College, The George Washington University, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor QUICK FACTS Estimated Start Date Late August Estimated End Date Late May School Uniform Required No Diploma Offered Yes Private Boarding School Program.