Fay School

Fay School
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Location

48 Main Street Southborough , Massachusetts 01772 United States
Coordinates	42°18′17″N 71°31′59″W
Information
Type	Junior boarding school
Motto	Poteris Modo Velis (You Can If You Will)
Established	1866
Founders	Eliza Burnett Fay Harriet Burnett
Head of Upper School (7-9)	Jake Sumner
Faculty	80
Grades	K–9
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	475 total (325 day, 150 boarding)
Average class size	14
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Language	English
Campus	30 acre main campus, 36 acre athletic campus
Campus type	Suburban
Color(s)	Red and white
Athletics	Yes
Athletics conference	New England Preparatory School Athletic Conference
Mascot	Moose
Newspaper	Moosepaper
Yearbook	Pioneer
Website	www.fayschool.org

History

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Founding and early years

Fay School was founded in 1866 by sisters Eliza Burnett Fay and Harriet Burnett in a former parsonage of the Unitarian church, across from St. Mark's School, where Fay students traditionally attended secondary school.^[1] In its first school year, the school had only seven students: five day students and two boarders.

Expansion

Under Eliza Fay's son, Waldo B. Fay, the school grew sizably, adding a new dormitory, school room, and library. In 1922, the school was officially incorporated,^[1] and the ownership of the school was transferred from the Fay family to the newly formed board of trustees.^[2] The school became fully coeducational in 1977, having previously implemented a pilot program for girls in 1972. Girls had previously attended the school as day students through the late 19th century.^[3] The Root Academic Building, the main academic building of the campus, was constructed in 2001. Fay opened its Primary School (pre-K to 2nd grade) in 2010^[4]^[5] and moved its 6th grade into the Lower School program (now 3rd to 6th grade) in the 2012–13 school year.^[6]^[3]

Headmasters

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List of Fay School Headmasters
Name	Years in Office
Eliza Burnett Fay	1866-1896 (29–30 years)
Waldo B. Fay	1896-1918 (21–22 years)
Edward W. Fay	1918-1942 (23–24 years)
Harrison L. Reinke	1942-1969 (26–27 years)
A. Brooks Harlow Jr.	1969-1988 (18–19 years)
Stephen V. A. Samborski	1988-1990 (1–2 years)
Stephen C. White	1990-2008 (17–18 years)
Robert J. Gustavson Jr.	2008-2024 (16–17 years)
Susanna Whitaker Waters	2024-Incumbent (0–1 years) ^[2]

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Campus facilities

The school is situated on a 30-acre main campus, with a 36-acre athletic campus 1.5 miles away in Marlborough. Apart from the Root Academic Building, there are multiple other buildings at Fay: the Center for Creativity and Design, the Picardi Art Building, the Reinke Building, and the Harris Event Center, which contains the theater.^[7] Below the theater is the Harlow Gymnasium, which contains the locker rooms, four basketball courts, an indoor rock climbing wall, and a fitness room. In addition, there are six soccer fields, four tennis courts, two swimming pools, a football field, and the multi-purpose MacAusland Field.^[8] For meals, students go to the Camp Family Dining Hall, which is currently operated by SAGE Dining.^[9] There are currently seven dormitory buildings: two boy dorms and five girl dorms, housing its 150 boarding students from 7th to 9th grade.^[10]