Portsmouth Abbey School is a private, coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12, located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Founded by a group of Benedictine monks in 1926 as Portsmouth Priory School, the school offered a classical education to boys. Using the British "public" school model, the Priory School employed a form system, and supplemented a student's education with athletics after classes. Portsmouth's education has emphas...
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Portsmouth Abbey School is a private, coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12, located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Founded by a group of Benedictine monks in 1926 as Portsmouth Priory School, the school offered a classical education to boys. Using the British "public" school model, the Priory School employed a form system, and supplemented a student's education with athletics after classes. Portsmouth's education has emphasized the classics. In modern times, it has included a humanities curriculum as part of a student's fourth form, or sophomore, year. The school is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.
The school's mission has tried to emphasize the importance of reverence for God and the human person, respect for learning and order, and responsibility for the shared experience of community life. The school has one full four-year academic merit scholarship, for applicants with test scores in the 90th percentile or above. There have been annual...
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