Dexter School

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Founded in 1926, the Dexter School is located in Brookline, Massachusetts. The expansive campus is also home to its "sister school", Southfield School.

Dexter's motto is Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow. Dexter strives to develop in each student academic and athletic skills, moral and spiritual attitudes and habits, and self-discipline so that each boy may make positive contributions to today's society. A range of offerings is available to students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. The curriculum is challenging, yet the faculty provides a wide range of academic offerings and individualized programs.

The 36-acre campus on the Boston-Brookline border provides a setting and facilities which serve the school community. Of particular note is the Clay Center for Science and Technology which is available to astronomers and provides students with extraordinary classroom opportunities as well as a world-class astronomical observatory. The Briarwood Marine Science Center on Cape Cod offers an exciting extended-campus resource where students are able to investigate the ocean environment.

Dexter's athletic programs feature a combination of intramural and interscholastic offerings. In Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 2 physical education is a "daily" activity. Intramural competition is introduced in Grade 3 through Grade 6 during which students compete in many different sports with the goal of instilling a spirit of sportsmanship and teamwork. Beginning in Grade 7, athletes choose from a variety of interscholastic sports. Dexter teams compete against many schools throughout the New England area. The school uses four fields on campus, including a new multi-purpose turf field installed in 2005. Two hockey rinks, the Lincoln Pool, and the Dalrymple Gymnasium provide indoor athletic facilities.

Historically, students have been drawn from some of Boston's oldest families, causing the school to have a reputation for being one of the breeding grounds for young Brahmins, or members of Boston's storied WASP Establishment. Traditionally, most Dexter graduates have gone on to ISL boarding and day schools, the most popular of which are Belmont Hill, Noble & Greenough, Roxbury Latin, St. George's School, Brooks, and Groton.

William Phinney has been head of school for over 50 years and is the longest serving headmaster of any private school in the country.