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Welcome to Governor Dummer Academy
America's oldest independent boarding school.

One Elm Street
Byfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
508-465-1763 Voice
508-462-1278 Fax
Home: www.gda.org

Campus and Facilities

The Academy's academic facilities are located in six classroom buildings. The Schumann Science Center houses lecture rooms and laboratories for the study of biology, chemistry, physics and earth and marine science. The Academy's science computer facility is headquartered in nearby Noyes Library. Parsons Schoolhouse is the locus of GDA's mathematics and foreign language departments, containing the Wang-Goodhue Computer Center, the language laboratory and classrooms. The history and English departments are centered in the Frost Building, which also contains GDA's 18,000-volume main library (with access to several million more volumes through computer database technology), microcomputer-based writing laboratory and Academy archives.

The Kaiser Visual Arts Center houses the Academy's photography lab and art and ceramics studios, in addition to the Carl Youngman Gallery, where student and professional work is displayed. The Thompson Performing Arts Center contains GDA's auditorium, music practice rooms, electronic music studio and studio/classroom for jazz band and music history and theory classes.