Miss Porter's School

Miss Porter's School
Address
60 Main St Farmington , Connecticut 06032 United States
Coordinates	41°43′21″N 72°49′46″W / 41.72250°N 72.82944°W / 41.72250; -72.82944
Information
Other name	MPS, Porter's, Farmington
Type	Independent, boarding
Motto	Latin: PVELLÆ VENERVNT ABIERVNT MVLIERES (“They come as girls; they leave as women.) Latin: VERITATEM SCIENTIAM HVMANITATEM ("Through truth, knowledge; through knowledge, humanity.") Latin: HIC REPPERERVNT ("Let it be made famous.")
Established	1843 (181 years ago) (1843)
CEEB code	070210
Head teacher	Katherine G. Windsor
Faculty	52
Grades	9–12
Gender	Girls
Enrollment	325 total 212 boarding 113 day (2014)
Average class size	10
Student to teacher ratio	7:1
Campus size	55-acre (220,000 m2)
Campus type	Township
Houses	Minks   Possums   Squirrels
Color(s)	Green and white
Athletics	18 Interscholastic teams
Athletics conference	NEPSAC Founders League
Mascot	Fighting Daisy
Rival	The Ethel Walker School
Accreditation	NAIS MTC The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) International Coalition of Girls’ Schools (ICGS) OSG University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Newspaper	Salmagundy
Yearbook	Daeges Eage
Endowment	$142.3 million
Tuition	$66,825 boarding $53,475 day (for 2021–2022)[1]
Website	porters.org

Miss Porter's School (MPS) is a private college preparatory school for girls founded in 1843 in Farmington, Connecticut. The school draws students from many of the fifty U.S. states, as well as from abroad. International students comprised 14% in the 2017–2018 year. The average class size was 10 students in 2017.^[2]