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Noble and Greenough School is #18 on the Forbes list.
Location: Dedham, Mass.
Founded: 1866
Ivy/MIT/Stanford pipeline*: 27%
Student/Faculty ratio: 6:1
Faculty holding advanced degrees: 60%
Endowment: $73 million
Notable alumni: Louis Agassiz Shaw, inventor of iron lung; JFK attended lower school
Historically known as a feeder school for Harvard University. Began admitting girls in 1975.
* Based on percentage of graduates over the last five years (unless otherwise noted) matriculating into Ivy League schools (Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University) as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.