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The school page currently displays an evaluation card that includes an overall rating and ratings across five key categories, totaling 46 data points. The five categories are: Geographic Community, Academic Strength, Matriculation Level, Extracurricular Activities, and FindingSchool Reviews. Visitors can easily view the overall score and ratings for each dimension (ranging from A+ to C). For boarding schools, detailed total score rankings are also included

The data used for evaluations and rankings comes from three primary sources: official school data, public data, and user-submitted data on FindingSchool.

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The entire scoring system is based on mathematical models derived from statistical analysis of samples from hundreds of schools across various levels. Each data point receives a corresponding rating based on its percentile position within the overall predicted distribution.

  • In the boarding school evaluation:: A- and above account for 45% of the total, B- and above account for 40%, C accounts for 15%.

  • In the day school evaluation: A- and above account for 30% of the total, B- and above account for 51%, C and others account for 19%.

2025 Evaluation Methodology

1. [30% - Matriculation Dimension] : Ivy League admission rate, admission rate for Top 25 National Universities and Top 5 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 50 National Universities and Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 100 National Universities and Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges, along with a summary of historical admissions data.

2. [24% - Academic Dimension]: Course offerings (AP, IB, Honors, and Advanced courses), percentage of teachers with a master’s degree or higher, percentage of AP exam scores of 3, 4, or 5, average scores on standardized tests (SAT and ACT), scores in AMC math competitions, and results in FRC robotics competitions.

3. [14% - Extracurricular Activities]: Alumni donation rate, number of clubs and activities, ratings for competitive sports teams, and ratings for arts programs.

4. [12% - FindingSchool Reviews] : FindingSchool website rating, review comments on FindingSchool, and historical rating trends.

5. [8% - Geographic Community]: State resource evaluation, density score of nearby top universities, distance to the nearest international airport, convenience of local amenities, transportation convenience, city crime rate, and educational level of the local population.

Overall
A-
Matriculation B+
Academics A-
Extracurriculars A
Community B
Reviews A
Ranked #1 in northern New England by the Washington Post in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018, John Bapst School is a private, non-religious day and boarding school serving about 500 boys and girls in grades 9-12. Applicants are accepted into all four grades.
Featuring a caring school community in the small, safe city of Bangor (city population 33,000), John Bapst serves day students (90%) from 35 towns and cities in Maine and boarding students (10%) from foreign countries like China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and Vietnam.

John Bapst is accredited by the NEASC and is a member of NAIS, iTEP, TABS and Enrollment Management Association, formerly SSATB (Secondary SAT Board). The staff includes 49 teachers, 2 college counselors, and 10 on-campus houseparents. Headmaster Dr. Armistead is in his 16th year at John Bapst. In recent years, graduates have attended many Top 100 World Universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, MIT, McGill, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UC-Berkley etc. Art and music graduates are studying at Pratt, Parsons, Fashion Technology Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, Berklee College of Music and Los Angeles College of Music. The school's strong technology program includes coding, cyber-security, robotics, and engineering. International students have captained teams in math, robotics, tennis, basketball, and chess. John Bapst has a strong AP program (25 courses taught on campus) and a culture that encourages students to join in American school life through drama, Model UN, Key Club (for community service), sports, and many other opportunities.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$52900
Enrollment
500
International Students
13%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
72%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:11
Endowment
$0.25 millions
AP
26
Average SAT Score
1336
Average ACT Score
26
Class Size
16
Boarding %
13

Matriculation

Matriculation

(2023)
Ranking University/College Students
#6 Stanford University 1 +
#13 Dartmouth College 1 +
#28 New York University 1 +
#28 Tufts University 1 +
#42 Boston University 1 +
#49 Northeastern University 1 +
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 +
#59 University of Washington 1 +
#103 University of Arizona 1 +
Arizona State University 1 +
#117 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 +
#117 University of Vermont 1 +
LAC #25 Bates College 1 +
LAC #30 Mount Holyoke College 1 +
#219 University of Maine 1 +
#234 Suffolk University 1 +
Husson University 1 +
Lasell College 1 +
Maine Maritime Academy 1 +
Saint Anselm College 1 +
Salem State University 1 +
University of Toronto 1 +
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2018-2022 2021 2020 2018-2019 Total
All schools 15 59 75 28 48
#1 Princeton University 1 admitted 1 2
#3 Harvard College 1 admitted 1 2
#3 Stanford University 1 + 1 admitted 1 1 + 4
#6 University of Pennsylvania 1 admitted 1 + 2
#7 Duke University 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 admitted 1 2
#9 Northwestern University 1 admitted 1
#9 Brown University 1 admitted 1 + 2
#12 Columbia University 1 admitted 1 2
#12 Cornell University 1 admitted 1
#15 University of California: Berkeley 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#15 University of California: Los Angeles 1 admitted 1 2
#18 Vanderbilt University 1 admitted 1
#18 Dartmouth College 1 + 1 admitted 1 + 3
#22 Georgetown University 1 admitted 1
#22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 admitted 1
#24 University of Virginia 1 admitted 1 + 2
#24 Carnegie Mellon University 1 + 1
#24 Emory University 1 admitted 1
#24 Washington University in St. Louis 1 admitted 1 2
#28 University of California: Davis 1 admitted 2 1 1 + 5
#28 University of Florida 1 admitted 1 + 2
#28 University of California: San Diego 1 admitted 1 1 3
#28 University of Southern California 1 admitted 1 2
#33 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 admitted 1 + 2
#33 University of California: Irvine 1 admitted 1 2
#35 New York University 1 + 1 admitted 1 1 1 + 5
#35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 admitted 1
#35 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 admitted 1 + 2
#39 Boston College 1 admitted 1 + 2
#40 Rutgers University 1 admitted 1 + 2
#40 University of Washington 1 + 1 admitted 1 1 + 4
#40 Tufts University 1 + 1 admitted 1 3
#43 Boston University 1 + 1 admitted 4 1 1 + 8
#47 Texas A&M University 1 admitted 1 + 2
#47 Wake Forest University 1 + 1
#47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1 admitted 1 2
#47 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 1 3
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 + 1 admitted 1 3
#51 Purdue University 1 admitted 1 1 3
#53 Case Western Reserve University 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#53 Northeastern University 1 + 1 admitted 1 1 + 4
#53 Florida State University 1 1
#53 University of Minnesota: Twin Cities 1 1
#53 College of William and Mary 1 admitted 1
#58 SUNY University at Stony Brook 1 admitted 1
#58 University of Connecticut 1 1 + 2
#60 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 admitted 1
#60 North Carolina State University 1 1 + 2
#60 Michigan State University 1 admitted 1 2
#67 University of Massachusetts Amherst 1 admitted 1
#67 Syracuse University 1 admitted 1 2
#67 George Washington University 1 admitted 1
#67 Villanova University 1 admitted 1
#73 Indiana University Bloomington 1 admitted 1 1 1 + 4
#77 Brigham Young University 1 + 1
#82 University of Illinois at Chicago 1 admitted 1 + 2
#82 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#86 New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 1
#89 University of South Florida 1 1
#89 Fordham University 1 admitted 2 1 + 4
#97 University of California: Santa Cruz 1 1
#98 Illinois Institute of Technology 1 + 1
#98 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 + 1 1 + 3
#105 San Diego State University 1 + 1
#105 Arizona State University 1 + 1
#105 University of Colorado Boulder 1 admitted 2 1 + 4
#105 American University 1 admitted 1 + 2
#115 University of Arizona 1 + 1 1 + 3
#115 University of New Hampshire 1 1 1 + 3
#124 University of Denver 1 + 1
#124 Fairfield University 1 + 1
#133 University of Vermont 1 + 1 admitted 4 1 + 7
#151 University of Rhode Island 1 1
#151 Simmons University 1 1
#163 Rowan University 1 + 1
#195 University of Louisville 1 + 1
#236 University of North Dakota 1 + 1
#249 University of Maine 1 + 1 admitted 24 1 + 27
#249 Suffolk University 1 + 1
#260 University of New England 2 1 + 3
#269 University of Nevada: Las Vegas 1 + 1
#280 California State University: East Bay 1 + 1
#361 Husson University 1 + 1 admitted 13 1 + 16
Penn State University Park 1 admitted 1 2
University of Maryland: College Park 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
Liberty University 1 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2018-2022 2021 2020 2018-2019 Total
All schools 3 15 5 9 19
#2 Amherst College 1 admitted 1
#3 United States Naval Academy 1 1 + 2
#4 Wellesley College 1 admitted 1 2
#9 Bowdoin College 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#11 Middlebury College 1 admitted 1
#11 United States Military Academy 1 1
#16 Vassar College 1 admitted 1
#16 Smith College 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#24 Bates College 1 + 1 admitted 2
#25 Colby College 1 admitted 1
#27 College of the Holy Cross 1 + 1
#30 Bucknell University 1 admitted 1 2
#30 Bryn Mawr College 1 + 1
#33 Colorado College 1 admitted 1
#34 Mount Holyoke College 1 + 1 admitted 1 3
#38 Skidmore College 1 1 + 2
#39 Denison University 1 1
#45 Union College 1 1 + 2
#46 Dickinson College 1 admitted 1
#46 Connecticut College 1 admitted 1 1 + 3
#46 Furman University 1 + 1
#46 DePauw University 1 admitted 1
#56 Wheaton College 1 + 1
#59 Wofford College 1 + 1
#75 St. John's College 1 1 + 2
#86 Stonehill College 1 + 1
#89 Saint Anselm College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#100 Sarah Lawrence College 1 + 1
#100 Earlham College 1 + 1
#100 Augustana College 1 + 1
#124 Hollins University 1 + 1
#152 Emmanuel College-Boston-MA 1 1
#163 Gordon College 1 + 1
Oberlin College 1 admitted 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2018-2022 2021 2020 2018-2019 Total
All schools 1 4 5 0 0
#1 University of Toronto 1 + 1 admitted 3 5
#2 University of British Columbia 1 admitted 1
#3 McGill University 1 admitted 1 2
#5 University of Alberta 1 1
#12 Dalhousie University 1 admitted 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2018-2022 2021 2020 2018-2019 Total
All schools 0 2 0 0 0
#5 University of Edinburgh 1 admitted 1
#25 London School of Economics and Political Science 1 admitted 1

AP Scores

(2021)
Number of students took AP test
230
18%
23%
28%
Score 5
Score 4
Score 3
Other scores

Academics

AP

(26)
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Comparative Government and Politics
Computer Science A
English Language and Composition
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Comparative Government and Politics
Computer Science A
English Language and Composition
English Literature and Composition
European History
French Language and Culture
Human Geography
Latin
Spanish Language and Culture
Statistics
Biology
Chinese Language and Culture
Macroeconomics
Psychology
United States History
Environmental Science
Studio Art: 2-D Design
Physics C: Mechanics
Music Theory
United States Government and Politics
Art History
Studio Art: 3-D Design
Studio Art: Drawing
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Sports

(18)
Alpine Skiing
Baseball
Basketball
Cheerleading
Cross Country
Diving
Alpine Skiing
Baseball
Basketball
Cheerleading
Cross Country
Diving
Field Hockey
American Football
Golf
Ice Hockey
Lacrosse
Orienteering
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Wrestling
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(35)
Art Club
Book Club
Chess Team
Chinese Club
Civil Rights Team
Coding club
Art Club
Book Club
Chess Team
Chinese Club
Civil Rights Team
Coding club
Cyber-Security Team
French Club
Gaming Club
Guitar Club
High School Quiz Show
Junior Classical League
Key Club
Knitting and Crocheting Club
Math Team
Media Lab
Model UN
National Honor Society
National History Day
Newspaper
Outing Club
Philosophy Club
Photography Club
Residential Life Council
Robotics Team
Science Club
Spanish Club
Student Ambassadors
Student Environmental Action Committee
Student Senate
Tai Chi Club
Technology Club
Tenor/Bass Ensemble
Yearbook
Youth in Government
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Arts

(25)
Acting
Band
Jazz
Music Theory
Piano
Singing
Acting
Band
Jazz
Music Theory
Piano
Singing
Ceramics
Digital Photography
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Studio Art
Chamber Orchestra
Choir
Drama
Art History
Film History
Illustration
Design
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School Link

Contact Info

http://www.johnbapst.org
100 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401
207-947-0313
ydeng@johnbapst.org
Maine

Basic Info

Co-ed
Boarding Grades: 9-12
Urban
ESL: Yes
Year Founded: 1928
Boarding Rate: 13%
Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Deadline: Rolling
Interview: Skype, On Campus, Admission Travel to China, Zoom, Wechat
Other Accepted Scores: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEFL Jr. iTEP, SSAT, Duolingo, Vericant
School Code:
TOEFL: B213

Frequently Ask Questions about John Bapst School

Tell me a bit about John Bapst School.
John Bapst School is Co-ed private boarding school located in Maine, US. It was founded 1928 , and currently has about 500 students, 13.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.johnbapst.org.
Does John Bapst School have rigorous academic requirements?
John Bapst School is offering 26 AP courses.

In recent years, 23 of their students score 4 and 5 in AP exams.

John Bapst School also have 72% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do John Bapst School students typically go for their colleges?
Based on the most recent matriculation data, 14% go to top 50 US universities and colleges*, 1% go to top 25, and about 3% go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

*Ranking is based on the 2024 US News College Ranking.
What is the application requirement for John Bapst School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, John Bapst School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for John Bapst School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for John Bapst School in 2024 is $52,900 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at ydeng@johnbapst.org .
Where is John Bapst School located?
John Bapst School is located in the State of Maine of USA.
How popular is John Bapst School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, John Bapst School is among the most popular schools, within top 288 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also John Bapst School has been favorited by 63 users.
How to start with an application with John Bapst School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about John Bapst School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit John Bapst School’s official site: http://www.johnbapst.org or call them at 207-947-0313.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to John Bapst School?
Yes, here are few: George Stevens Academy, Maine Central Institute and Foxcroft Academy.

What is the FindingSchool rating for John Bapst School?
The overall rating for John Bapst School is A-.

The section ratings of John Bapst School are:
B+ for Matriculation
A- for Academics
A for Extracurriculum
B for Community
A for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, is the cultural and financial heart of New England. With a rich history dating back to the American Revolution, it is home to iconic landmarks such as the Freedom Trail, the Boston Common, and the Massachusetts State House. The city boasts prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT and is known for its vibrant arts scene, diverse neighborhoods, and thriving economy. Boston's blend of historical significance and modern innovation makes it one of the most influential cities in the U.S.
Population (2022) 609,023
Cost of Living Higher than average 54%
Nearby Airport Logan International Airport

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