About Milton Academy

Milton Academy (also known as Milton) is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day researcher in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade. It is a terribly selective school, accepting unaccompanied 14% of applicants in the 2020-21 learned year. Historically, it has been an unofficial feeder instructor for Harvard University.

Milton is a supporter of the Independent School League (ISL). Milton’s historic energetic rival is Noble and Greenough.

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and an well-to-do suburb of Boston. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. In 2007, 2009, and 2011, Money magazine listed Milton as 7th, 5th, and 2nd, respectively, on its annual list of the “Best Places to Live” in the United States.

Milton is located between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills. It is bordered by Boston’s Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods to the north and its Hyde Park neighborhood to the west; Quincy to the east and south; Randolph to the south, and Canton to the west.