MacDuffie School

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Address
The MacDuffie School
One Ames Hill Drive Springfield, MA, 01105 USA
Information
Founder	John and Abigail MacDuffie
Head of school	Kathryn Gibson
Faculty	35
Average class size	11
Student:teacher ratio	6:1
Grades	6-12
Song	The Magnolia Song
Motto	Veritas (Truth)
Mascot	Mustangs
Team name	Mustangs
Yearbook	The Magnolia
Newspaper	The Magnet
Established	1890
Homepage	http://www.macduffie.com

The MacDuffie School is a private school for grades 6-12 located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1890 by John and Abigail MacDuffie as an all-girls college preparatory school and remained so until the fall of 1991. Enrollment is around 215 students, the majority being day students; the school also accepts boarding students into the Ames Hill Boarding Program.

Much of MacDuffie's current campus was developed between 1956 and 1968, under the stewardship of headmaster Ralph D. Rutenber, when several large homes and an athletics field were acquired. The school is located on a secluded 15-acre campus on Ames Hill Drive in Springfield.

The school prides itself on small classroom sizes with an average class size of 11 and a teacher/student ratio of 6:1. The 2005-2006 enrollment count for the school reached 226 students that hail from 27 different cities and towns within Massachusetts and from five Connecticut cities and towns. International students live in the five boarding houses located on campus.

The school is not religiously affiliated and the current headmaster since 2000 is Mrs. Kathryn Gibson. According to the headmaster, the MacDuffie School is "...a rigorous college preparatory school whose mission is to foster in all students the intellectual habits of mind, high ethical standards and respect for diversity required for becoming effective individuals in their personal and work lives and moral and responsible participants in the world beyond."

Tom Addicks sits as the assistant head of the school. Many consider him instrumental in the success of the school in recent years. A former math teacher, Tom has had a strong influence in the current financial status of the school, the campus beauty and the student spirit.

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