Burr and Burton Academy (BBA) is a private, non-profit, co-educational, day and boarding school in Manchester, Vermont, United States. It was established in 1829 through a bequest from local businessman Joseph Burr.
In addition to serving local students and families, BBA offers a boarding program for international students.
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Admissions
Burr and Burton Academy accepts all students from designated "sending towns," which vote annually to approve the school's tuition and pay the cost through education funding. Admission is also open on an annual basis to students from other, non-sending towns, as well as through BBA's International Program.
Tuition for the 2023–24 school year is $19,987 for sending town students; $22,487 for non-sending town students; and $59,500 for boarding international students.
Notable alumni
James K. Batchelder, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
Jacob Benton, congressman
Charity Clark, Vermont Attorney General
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, educator, author, social reformer and poet
Carroll William Dodge, mycologist and lichenologist
Richard Erdman, artist
Fred A. Field, U.S. marshal for Vermont
Kevin Hand, astrobiologist and planetary scientist
John C. Hollister, tenth Connecticut adjutant general
Lyman Enos Knapp, politician and lawyer
Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist
John B. Page, governor of Vermont
Kelly Pajala, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
Frederick M. Reed, attorney and businessman
Joseph Wickham Roe, engineer and professor
Betsy Shaw, American snowboarder
Nathan B. Smith, New York lawyer and politician
Ormsby B. Thomas, congressman
Stephen A. Walker, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York
Mark Whalon, poet and author
Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Notable staff
Lyman Coleman, former principal
Harvey Dorfman, former coach
Richard C. Overton, former teacher
Charles C. Stroud, former teacher