Proctor Academy

Proctor Academy is a co-educational, residential, college-preparatory school located in Andover, New Hampshire. The school was founded in 1848 as Andover Academy. In 1881, it changed its name to Proctor Academy, in honor of its most generous benefactor and trustee, John Proctor. Today, Proctor has an average of 325 students each year, four-fifths of whom are boarders. The school’s student population comes from academically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Proctor Academy is dedicated to a rigorous academic schedule, while making a policy of promoting active and experiential learning. Proctor offers its students the chance to live and study in environments as varied as a Navaho reservation in the Southwest; a schooner at sea; or a cultural immersion program in France, Spain, or Morocco.

Ocean Classroom is one of the programs produced by Proctor Academy, in partnership with the Ocean Classroom Foundation. Ocean Classroom is a fully accredited semester-at-sea program for high school students. The program consists of an average of twenty students who live, work and study aboard the schooner Spirit of Massachusetts. Over the course of the semester, the students explore the ocean and ports along the United States’ Atlantic Seaboard and the Caribbean Sea. Their curriculum combines academic studies with personal challenges, seafaring adventure and international travel. Specific areas of study include the ecology of the sea, marine mathematics, maritime history, literature of the sea and seamanship/navigation.

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