Cushing Academy

Cushing Academy is a coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts serving grades 9 through 12 plus an optional postgraduate year. It was founded in 1865 in fulfilment of a bequest by Thomas Parkman Cushing and opened in 1875, and the Academy is sometimes cited as the oldest coeducational boarding school in the United States. Cushing Academy has approximately 400 students hailing from 30 states and 30 countries.