page_title: Peddie School
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Peddie School / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: The Annenberg Science Center at The Peddie School
context_page_description: The Peddie School is a college preparatory school in Hightstown, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is a non-denominational, coeducational boarding school located on a 280-acre campus, and serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades, plus a small post-graduate class. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
  In its 2015 rankings, Business Insider ranked the school's tuition as the 18th most expensive private high school tuition in the United States, with tuition and fees of $44,800. The site ranked Peddie 13th on its 2015 list of the Most Elite Boarding Schools In The US, with rankings based on the size of each school's endowment, average SAT scores and selectivity. The school is also extremely selective, with an acceptance rate of 22%.
  As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 551 students and 78.5 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 7.0:1. The school's student body was 59.3% White, 16.0% Asian, 12.9% Black, 6.0% Hispanic and 5.8% two or more races. Peddie had 62% of students in residence.
context_section_description: Annenberg Hall, formerly Memorial Hall, houses the English, mathematics, and foreign language departments.
  In fall 2015, the Digital Fabrication Laboratory opened, since named the Izzo Design Laboratory. The renovated boiler plant, a 4300-square-foot building, houses an engineering lab with advanced fabrication capabilities including a CNC mill, CNC laser, 3D printer and a robotics studio.
  In 2005, The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Science Center opened. The 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m²), US$19-million facility features 11 laboratory classrooms, a fully equipped DNA and Special Projects laboratory, a dedicated advanced experimental physics facility, a psychology seminar room, and 10 "genius" Smart Boards. The "genius" SMART boards are normal whiteboard surface boards, unlike normal SMART Boards, though capable of capturing any drawing on the board using special barcoded markers. Ceiling-mounted mobile fume-hoods are located above each table in the Biology and Chemistry department laboratories.
  The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Science Center replaced science classrooms at the previously modern Caspersen Science Building, originally built in the late 1960s. It was subsequently remodeled and renamed Caspersen History House in 2006; it houses the history and some English department facilities.
  The Swig Arts Center facilitates the school's visual art, music and theater programs.
  The William Mount-Burke Theatre in Geiger-Reeves Hall hosts both student performances and outside ones as well.
  The Ayer Memorial Chapel has been host to a variety of speakers, including Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. President Gerald Ford, Colin Powell and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
  The Peddie Golf Club is an 18-hole, par 72 golf course located on the Peddie School campus.
  Student life is centered around the Caspersen Campus Center which houses the dining hall, the bookstore, and the student grill.
caption: The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Science Center
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