Wheeler School

A 5.0 Rhode Island, US

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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	185	186	131	196	163
#1	Princeton University	3	1 admitted	1	1	1	7
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1		1	2	1	5
#3	Yale University	5	1 admitted	6	5	1	18
#3	Harvard College	2		1	5	4	12
#3	Stanford University	1		2	3	2	8
#6	University of Chicago	1			2	2	5
#7	Johns Hopkins University	4	1 admitted	2			7
#8	University of Pennsylvania			3	4	1	8
#9	Duke University			1	1		2
#10	Northwestern University	1		1	1		3
#12	Dartmouth College	2	2 admitted	1	4		9
#13	Vanderbilt University	1			2	1	4
#13	Brown University	22	5 admitted	17	19	6	69
#15	Washington University in St. Louis	3	1 admitted		3	3	10
#17	Cornell University	3		2	1		6
#18	Columbia University	1		4	6	1	12
#20	University of California: Berkeley	1		1		1	3
#20	University of California: Los Angeles		1 admitted			1	2
#22	Carnegie Mellon University		1 admitted				1
#22	Emory University	1	1 admitted		1	5	8
#22	Georgetown University	4	1 admitted	4	3	2	14
#25	University of Virginia	1		1	1	2	5
#25	University of Southern California	2	2 admitted	4	8	3	19
#25	University of Michigan	4	1 admitted	1	4	3	13
#25	New York University	6	3 admitted	2	5	7	23
#28	Wake Forest University			2	2		4
#29	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1	1 admitted				2
#29	Georgia Institute of Technology				1		1
#32	University of California: Santa Barbara		1 admitted				1
#32	Tufts University	9	3 admitted	4	6	4	26
#34	College of William and Mary					1	1
#34	University of California: Irvine		2 admitted				2
#34	University of California: San Diego		1 admitted	1	1		3
#34	University of Rochester			1	2	1	4
#36	Boston College	7	5 admitted	5	12	8	37
#38	University of California: Davis	2	1 admitted	1			4
#38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1	3 admitted				4
#41	Boston University	10	10 admitted	7	9	9	45
#44	Case Western Reserve University	1	2 admitted			2	5
#44	Tulane University	1	1 admitted	2	4	4	12
#44	Northeastern University	18	14 admitted	7	9	13	61
#44	Brandeis University	5	3 admitted	2	4	4	18
#48	University of Texas at Austin				1		1
#51	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	2	2 admitted	2	3	1	10
#51	Purdue University		1 admitted			1	2
#51	Villanova University	2	1 admitted	2	2		7
#51	Lehigh University		1 admitted		2		3
#55	University of Washington		1 admitted				1
#55	University of Miami	4	1 admitted	2	1	2	10
#55	Santa Clara University	1	1 admitted				2
#62	Rutgers University			2	2		4
#62	George Washington University	7	9 admitted	2	3	4	25
#62	Syracuse University	4	7 admitted	3	5	8	27
#62	University of Pittsburgh	2	1 admitted			3	6
#67	University of Connecticut	3	1 admitted	3	2	2	11
#67	University of Massachusetts Amherst	1	5 admitted	1	2		9
#67	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	4	2 admitted	2	6	3	17
#69	University of Minnesota: Twin Cities					2	2
#72	Indiana University Bloomington	2	1 admitted	1	1	1	6
#72	Fordham University	1	5 admitted	2	4	11	23
#72	American University	2	3 admitted	4	5	3	17
#72	North Carolina State University		1 admitted				1
#75	Michigan State University					1	1
#77	Baylor University	2	2 admitted	2			6
#77	Clemson University	1	1 admitted	1	1		4
#82	University of California: Santa Cruz					1	1
#83	Gonzaga University		1 admitted				1
#84	Marquette University				1	1	2
#89	University of Delaware	1	1 admitted			1	3
#89	Elon University		2 admitted		1		3
#89	Texas Christian University	1	1 admitted			1	3
#96	Florida State University					1	1
#97	Clark University	2	1 admitted	5	5	6	19
#99	Auburn University			1	1		2
#105	University of San Francisco		1 admitted				1
#105	University of Utah		1 admitted				1
#105	University of Oregon		2 admitted				2
#105	University of Arizona	1	4 admitted				5
#105	University of Denver	2	3 admitted			1	6
#105	Rochester Institute of Technology		3 admitted		3		6
#105	Miami University: Oxford		2 admitted			1	3
#105	Drexel University	2	10 admitted	2	2	1	17
#115	University of South Carolina: Columbia	1	1 admitted	1			3
#115	Loyola University Chicago		1 admitted			4	5
#121	Temple University	1	1 admitted		1		3
#121	University of Vermont	3	12 admitted	2	5	6	28
#121	University of Kansas		1 admitted				1
#121	Chapman University	1	1 admitted	3	3		8
#121	Arizona State University	1			1		2
#137	University of New Hampshire		4 admitted				4
#137	University of Alabama		1 admitted				1
#137	University of Kentucky	1	1 admitted				2
#137	DePaul University		1 admitted				1
#151	San Diego State University	1	1 admitted				2
#151	Simmons University		1 admitted				1
#176	Catholic University of America		1 admitted				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
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1					1
	University of Tennessee: Knoxville		1 admitted				1
	University of Colorado Boulder	1	7 admitted	1	1	1	11

		Matriculation
Ranking	University/College	2020-2023	2019-2022	2018-2020	2016-2019	2017	Total
	All schools	83	41	86	102	47
#1	Williams College	7	2 admitted	4	5	4	22
#2	Amherst College	1	2 admitted	1	1		5
#3	Pomona College	1		2	3		6
#4	Swarthmore College	1		1	3		5
#5	Wellesley College	3	1 admitted	5	5	2	16
#6	Bowdoin College				1	1	2
#6	United States Naval Academy			1	1		2
#9	Claremont McKenna College	2	1 admitted				3
#9	Middlebury College			1	4	1	6
#9	Carleton College			1	1	1	3
#13	Vassar College	4	2 admitted	3	2		11
#13	Smith College	1	1 admitted	2	2	2	8
#15	Davidson College	2		1			3
#15	Hamilton College	3	2 admitted	1	2	1	9
#15	Grinnell College	2	2 admitted	2	3	1	10
#18	University of Richmond	1	1 admitted		1	1	4
#18	Barnard College	6	2 admitted	4	3	1	16
#18	Wesleyan University	1		3	5	1	10
#18	Colgate University	5	1 admitted	2	2		10
#18	Haverford College	1		2	3		6
#24	Colby College	4	3 admitted	3	4	2	16
#25	Bates College	4	2 admitted	6	7	2	21
#27	Colorado College	1		3	4	2	10
#27	Macalester College	2	2 admitted	2	1		7
#31	Bryn Mawr College	2		1			3
#31	Kenyon College		1 admitted	1	2	1	5
#33	College of the Holy Cross	4		6	3	1	14
#33	Pitzer College	2		4	4	1	11
#35	Mount Holyoke College					1	1
#36	Oberlin College			1		2	3
#37	Bucknell University	2	2 admitted	3	2	1	10
#37	Occidental College	1	1 admitted			1	3
#38	Union College					2	2
#39	Lafayette College	1	1 admitted			1	3
#39	Denison University	1					1
#39	Skidmore College	5	2 admitted	3	5	3	18
#39	Trinity College	1		3	6	6	16
#45	Furman University		1 admitted	1	1		3
#47	Gettysburg College					1	1
#50	The University of the South			1	1		2
#51	Dickinson College	2		1	3	1	7
#55	Connecticut College	6	3 admitted	7	6	1	23
#60	Bard College	3	1 admitted	1	1	1	7
	Union College		3 admitted	3	4		10
	Franklin & Marshall College		1 admitted		1	1	3
	United States Military Academy	1	1 admitted				2

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

IB: No

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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