Tabor Academy
Tabor Academy is a four-year private non religious secondary preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts.
Tabor offers an extensive academic program with both secondary school level courses as well as advanced placement (first year college) courses. The array of courses include languages (classic and modern); math; english literature; and sciences with a unique program in marine biology.
Aside from football, soccer, hockey, basketball, wrestling, and other classic sports, Tabor Academy is blessed by its location on the shores of Sippican Harbor to be able to offer an extensive program in sailing. Tabor's sailing program includes a fleet boat racing program (using 420's and Lasers) as well as team aboard a 93 foot long schooner; the Tabor Boy. The Tabor Boy program is an excellent opportunity for students to lean teamwork and discipline.
Tabor Academy, a boarding school, has approximately 450 students. About 80 percent live in dormitories on campus with the remaining living at home with their parents and commuting to the school. Those students who do commute are highly encouraged to participate in the whole of the school's programs and not to just embark on the academics and then dissapear home at the end of the school day. All students are required to take part in a team sport as well as meet the academic requirements.
The resident students on Tabor's campus reside in small dormitories, called houses, which comprise up to about 6 to 20 students living with one or two faculty members and their families. Tabor is engaged in a program to migrate from the use of large dormitories (one with close to 50 students) to smaller dormatory units in order to allow for closer relationships between the students and faculty members. However, this does not mean that these groups are isolated. Tabor does strongly encourage community wide activities. For example, there is one community wide dining facility in which all students (including commuting students) eat their meals together.
