Wheeler School

A 5.0 Rhode Island, US

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Overall

Matriculation A+

Academics B+

Extracurriculars B

Community A+

Reviews B+

Founded in 1889, The Wheeler School is an independent day school for girls and boys from Nursery through Grade Twelve.
Although preparation for college is a primary goal of the Upper School, our program in all divisions is intended to be both academically rigorous and developmentally appropriate.
Our goal is to build relationships based on appreciation and trust.

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Current School

Tuition

$46955

Enrollment

800

International Students

Faculty with Advanced Degrees

67%

Teacher-Student Ratio

1:6

Average SAT Score

1320

Average ACT Score

Class Size

Matriculation

(2020-2023)

Ranking	University/College	Students
#1	Princeton University	3
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1
#3	Harvard College	2
#3	Stanford University	1
#3	Yale University	5
LAC #1	Williams College	7
#6	University of Chicago	1
#7	Johns Hopkins University	4
#10	Northwestern University	1
LAC #2	Amherst College	1
#12	Dartmouth College	2
#13	Brown University	22
#13	Vanderbilt University	1
#15	Washington University in St. Louis	3
LAC #3	Pomona College	1
#17	Cornell University	3
#18	Columbia University	1
#20	University of California: Berkeley	1
LAC #4	Swarthmore College	1
#22	Emory University	1
#22	Georgetown University	4
#25	New York University	6
#25	University of Michigan	4
#25	University of Southern California	2
#25	University of Virginia	1
LAC #5	Wellesley College	3
#29	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1
#32	Tufts University	9
#36	Boston College	7
#38	University of California: Davis	2
#38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1
#41	Boston University	10
#44	Brandeis University	5
#44	Case Western Reserve University	1
#44	Northeastern University	18
#44	Tulane University	1
LAC #9	Claremont McKenna College	2
#51	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	2
#51	Villanova University	2
#55	Santa Clara University	1
#55	University of Miami	4
#62	George Washington University	7
#62	Syracuse University	4
#62	University of Pittsburgh	2
LAC #13	Smith College	1
LAC #13	Vassar College	4
#67	University of Connecticut	3
#67	University of Massachusetts Amherst	1
#67	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	4
#72	American University	2
#72	Fordham University	1
#72	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	1
#72	Indiana University Bloomington	2
#72	Reed College	2
LAC #15	Davidson College	2
LAC #15	Grinnell College	2
LAC #15	Hamilton College	3
#76	Willamette University	1
#77	Baylor University	2
#77	Clemson University	1
#84	Bennington College	2
#89	Stonehill College	3
#89	Texas Christian University	1
#89	University of Delaware	1
#89	Ursinus College	1
LAC #18	Barnard College	6
LAC #18	Colgate University	5
LAC #18	Haverford College	1
LAC #18	University of Richmond	1
LAC #18	Wesleyan University	1
#94	Lewis & Clark College	2
#97	Clark University	2
#105	Drexel University	2
#105	University of Arizona	1
#105	University of Denver	2
#115	Fairfield University	1
#115	University of South Carolina: Columbia	1
LAC #24	Colby College	4
	Arizona State University	1
#121	Chapman University	1
#121	Temple University	1
#121	University of Vermont	3
LAC #25	Bates College	4
#130	Eckerd College	1
LAC #27	Colorado College	1
LAC #27	Macalester College	2
#137	University of Kentucky	1
#151	San Diego State University	1
LAC #31	Bryn Mawr College	2
LAC #33	College of the Holy Cross	4
LAC #33	Pitzer College	2
#166	Quinnipiac University	3
#182	University of Rhode Island	4
LAC #37	Bucknell University	2
LAC #37	Occidental College	1
LAC #39	Denison University	1
LAC #39	Lafayette College	1
LAC #39	Skidmore College	5
LAC #39	Trinity College	1
#234	Suffolk University	1
LAC #51	Dickinson College	2
LAC #55	Connecticut College	6
LAC #60	Bard College	3
	Babson College	1
	Bentley University	1
	Berklee College of Music	1
	Bridgewater State University	1
	Bryant University	1
	Champlain College	1
	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	1
	Culinary Institute of America	1
	Deep Springs College-Dyer-NV	1
	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Daytona Beach Campus	1
	Emerson College	2
	Franklin Pierce University	1
	High Point University	2
	Ithaca College	1
	Johnson & Wales University: Providence	1
	Lesley University	1
	Loyola University Maryland	1
	Lynn University	1
	Maryland Institute College of Art	1
	McGill University	5
	MCPHS University	1
	Parsons The New School for Design	1
	Providence College	6
	Rhode Island College	1
	Rhode Island School of Design	2
	Roger Williams University	2
	Rollins College	1
	Salve Regina University	2
	School of Visual Arts	1
	The New School College of Performing Arts	2
	United States Military Academy	1
	University of Colorado Boulder	1
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1
	University of Maryland: College Park	3
	University of St. Andrews	1
	University of Tampa	1
	University of Toronto	1
	University of Warwick	1
	Wentworth Institute of Technology	1
	Wheaton College-Norton-MA	1

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		Matriculation
Ranking	University/College	2020-2023	2019-2022	2018-2020	2016-2019	2017	Total
	All schools	197	217	148	211	163
#1	Princeton University	3	1 admitted	1	1	1	7
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1		1	2	1	5
#3	Harvard College	2		1	5	4	12
#3	Stanford University	1		2	3	2	8
#5	Yale University	5	1 admitted	6	5	1	18
#6	University of Pennsylvania			3	4	1	8
#7	Duke University			1	1		2
#9	Johns Hopkins University	4	1 admitted	2			7
#9	Northwestern University	1		1	1		3
#9	Brown University	22	5 admitted	17	19	6	69
#12	University of Chicago	1			2	2	5
#12	Cornell University	3		2	1		6
#12	Columbia University	1		4	6	1	12
#15	University of California: Los Angeles		1 admitted			1	2
#15	University of California: Berkeley	1		1		1	3
#18	Vanderbilt University	1			2	1	4
#18	Dartmouth College	2	2 admitted	1	4		9
#21	University of Michigan	4	1 admitted	1	4	3	13
#22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1	1 admitted				2
#22	Georgetown University	4	1 admitted	4	3	2	14
#24	Emory University	1	1 admitted		1	5	8
#24	Carnegie Mellon University		1 admitted				1
#24	University of Virginia	1		1	1	2	5
#24	Washington University in St. Louis	3	1 admitted		3	3	10
#28	University of Southern California	2	2 admitted	4	8	3	19
#28	University of California: Davis	2	1 admitted	1			4
#28	University of California: San Diego		1 admitted	1	1		3
#33	University of California: Irvine		2 admitted				2
#33	Georgia Institute of Technology				1		1
#35	New York University	6	3 admitted	2	5	7	23
#35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1	3 admitted				4
#35	University of California: Santa Barbara		1 admitted				1
#39	Boston College	7	5 admitted	5	12	8	37
#40	Tufts University	9	3 admitted	4	6	4	26
#40	Rutgers University			2	2		4
#40	University of Washington		1 admitted				1
#43	Boston University	10	10 admitted	7	9	9	45
#47	University of Rochester			1	2	1	4
#47	Lehigh University		1 admitted		2		3
#47	Wake Forest University			2	2		4
#48	University of Texas at Austin				1		1
#51	Purdue University		1 admitted			1	2
#53	Case Western Reserve University	1	2 admitted			2	5
#53	Northeastern University	18	14 admitted	7	9	13	61
#53	College of William and Mary					1	1
#53	University of Minnesota: Twin Cities					2	2
#53	Florida State University					1	1
#58	University of Connecticut	3	1 admitted	3	2	2	11
#60	North Carolina State University		1 admitted				1
#60	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	2	2 admitted	2	3	1	10
#60	Santa Clara University	1	1 admitted				2
#60	Brandeis University	5	3 admitted	2	4	4	18
#60	Michigan State University					1	1
#67	University of Pittsburgh	2	1 admitted			3	6
#67	University of Massachusetts Amherst	1	5 admitted	1	2		9
#67	George Washington University	7	9 admitted	2	3	4	25
#67	Villanova University	2	1 admitted	2	2		7
#67	Syracuse University	4	7 admitted	3	5	8	27
#67	University of Miami	4	1 admitted	2	1	2	10
#73	Tulane University	1	1 admitted	2	4	4	12
#73	Indiana University Bloomington	2	1 admitted	1	1	1	6
#76	University of Delaware	1	1 admitted			1	3
#82	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	4	2 admitted	2	6	3	17
#82	University of California: Santa Cruz					1	1
#86	Clemson University	1	1 admitted	1	1		4
#86	Marquette University				1	1	2
#89	Temple University	1	1 admitted		1		3
#89	Fordham University	1	5 admitted	2	4	11	23
#93	Auburn University			1	1		2
#93	Gonzaga University		1 admitted				1
#93	Baylor University	2	2 admitted	2			6
#98	University of Oregon		2 admitted				2
#98	Rochester Institute of Technology		3 admitted		3		6
#98	Texas Christian University	1	1 admitted			1	3
#98	Drexel University	2	10 admitted	2	2	1	17
#105	Arizona State University	1			1		2
#105	San Diego State University	1	1 admitted				2
#105	University of Colorado Boulder	1	7 admitted	1	1	1	11
#105	American University	2	3 admitted	4	5	3	17
#105	University of Tennessee: Knoxville		1 admitted				1
#115	University of Arizona	1	4 admitted				5
#115	University of Utah		1 admitted				1
#115	University of San Francisco		1 admitted				1
#115	University of New Hampshire		4 admitted				4
#124	Fairfield University	1	2 admitted	1			4
#124	University of Denver	2	3 admitted			1	6
#124	University of South Carolina: Columbia	1	1 admitted	1			3
#133	University of Vermont	3	12 admitted	2	5	6	28
#133	Chapman University	1	1 admitted	3	3		8
#133	Miami University: Oxford		2 admitted			1	3
#133	Elon University		2 admitted		1		3
#137	University of Alabama		1 admitted				1
#142	Loyola University Chicago		1 admitted			4	5
#142	Clark University	2	1 admitted	5	5	6	19
#151	University of Kansas		1 admitted				1
#151	DePaul University		1 admitted				1
#151	Simmons University		1 admitted				1
#151	University of Rhode Island	4	18 admitted	5	4		31
#159	University of Kentucky	1	1 admitted				2
#163	St. John's University			1	1		2
#163	University of Mississippi			1	1		2
#170	Quinnipiac University	3	2 admitted	2	2		9
#178	Catholic University of America		1 admitted				1
#178	Washington State University			1	1		2
#201	The New School College of Performing Arts	2	1 admitted	2			5
#209	Sacred Heart University			1	2		3
#209	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth		2 admitted				2
#227	Kent State University		1 admitted				1
#227	Western Carolina University			1	1		2
#236	University of North Dakota		1 admitted				1
#249	Pace University		1 admitted				1
#249	Suffolk University	1	1 admitted	1	2		5
#249	University of Maine		1 admitted				1
#269	Florida Institute of Technology			1	1		2
#280	Southern Illinois University Carbondale		1 admitted				1
#342	Lesley University	1					1
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1					1
	Ohio State University: Columbus Campus		1 admitted				1
	Penn State University Park		1 admitted			1	2
	University of Maryland: College Park	3	3 admitted		1	2	9

		Matriculation
Ranking	University/College	2020-2023	2019-2022	2018-2020	2016-2019	2017	Total
	All schools	97	65	94	116	47
#1	Williams College	7	2 admitted	4	5	4	22
#2	Amherst College	1	2 admitted	1	1		5
#3	United States Naval Academy			1	1		2
#4	Swarthmore College	1		1	3		5
#4	Pomona College	1		2	3		6
#4	Wellesley College	3	1 admitted	5	5	2	16
#9	Bowdoin College				1	1	2
#9	Carleton College			1	1	1	3
#11	Grinnell College	2	2 admitted	2	3	1	10
#11	Middlebury College			1	4	1	6
#11	Barnard College	6	2 admitted	4	3	1	16
#11	Wesleyan University	1		3	5	1	10
#11	Claremont McKenna College	2	1 admitted				3
#16	Davidson College	2		1			3
#16	Smith College	1	1 admitted	2	2	2	8
#16	Vassar College	4	2 admitted	3	2		11
#16	Hamilton College	3	2 admitted	1	2	1	9
#21	Haverford College	1		2	3		6
#21	Colgate University	5	1 admitted	2	2		10
#24	Bates College	4	2 admitted	6	7	2	21
#25	University of Richmond	1	1 admitted		1	1	4
#25	Colby College	4	3 admitted	3	4	2	16
#27	Macalester College	2	2 admitted	2	1		7
#27	College of the Holy Cross	4		6	3	1	14
#30	Lafayette College	1	1 admitted			1	3
#30	Bryn Mawr College	2		1			3
#30	Bucknell University	2	2 admitted	3	2	1	10
#33	Colorado College	1		3	4	2	10
#34	Mount Holyoke College					1	1
#35	Occidental College	1	1 admitted			1	3
#35	Franklin & Marshall College		1 admitted		1	1	3
#36	Oberlin College			1		2	3
#38	Skidmore College	5	2 admitted	3	5	3	18
#38	Union College					2	2
#39	Kenyon College		1 admitted	1	2	1	5
#39	Denison University	1					1
#39	Trinity College	1		3	6	6	16
#39	Pitzer College	2		4	4	1	11
#45	Union College		3 admitted	3	4		10
#46	Furman University		1 admitted	1	1		3
#46	Dickinson College	2		1	3	1	7
#46	Connecticut College	6	3 admitted	7	6	1	23
#51	The University of the South			1	1		2
#59	St. Lawrence University		2 admitted				2
#63	Gettysburg College					1	1
#67	Reed College	2	3 admitted				5
#70	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	1	2 admitted		2		5
#72	Bard College	3	1 admitted	1	1	1	7
#75	Wheaton College-Norton-MA	1	2 admitted	2	4		9
#75	Willamette University	1		1			2
#86	Stonehill College	3	2 admitted	1	1		7
#86	Ursinus College	1					1
#89	University of Puget Sound		2 admitted	1	1		4
#89	Saint Anselm College		2 admitted				2
#93	Whittier College		1 admitted				1
#93	Washington College				1		1
#93	Lewis & Clark College	2	2 admitted				4
#100	Sarah Lawrence College		1 admitted	1	3		5
#112	Bennington College	2	1 admitted	1	1		5
#130	Eckerd College	1	1 admitted				2
#139	Hampshire College			1	1		2
#152	Emmanuel College-Boston-MA		3 admitted				3
	United States Military Academy	1	1 admitted				2

		Matriculation
Ranking	University/College	2020-2023	2019-2022	2018-2020	2016-2019	2017	Total
	All schools	6	5	2	2	0
#1	University of Toronto	1	2 admitted				3
#3	McGill University	5	3 admitted	2	2		12

		Matriculation
Ranking	University/College	2020-2023	2019-2022	2018-2020	2016-2019	2017	Total
	All schools	2	1	0	0	0
#1	University of Oxford		1 admitted				1
#15	University of Warwick	1					1
#33	University of St. Andrews	1					1

AP Scores

(2018)

Number of students took AP test

150

Number of tests taken

321

75%

Score 5

Score 4

Score 3

Other scores

Academics

AP

(9)

Biology	Chemistry
Environmental Science	Calculus AB
Calculus BC	Computer Science A

Sports

(11)

Baseball	Basketball
Cross Country	Field Hockey
Golf	Gymnastics

Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(9)

Academic Decathlon	Chess Team
Debate Team	Math Team
Mock Trial Program	Model Legislature

Arts

(8)

Ceramics	Digital Photography
Drawing	Graphic Design
Painting	Printmaking

Contact Info

https://www.wheelerschool.org

216 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906-2246

401-421-8100

JeanetteEpstein@wheelerschool.org

Rhode Island

Basic Info

Co-ed

Day S. Grades: Nursery-12

Suburban

ESL: No

Year Founded: 1889

Campus Size: 125 acres

Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Deadline: Rolling

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Population (2022) 609,023

Cost of Living Higher than average 54%

Nearby Airport Logan International Airport

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