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Tabor Academy is a four-year independent preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts.
The school was founded in 1876 by a bequest in the will of Elizabeth Taber, a wealthy widow. Tabor was reorganized in 1916 as an independent secondary school by Headmaster Walter H. Lillard. Two other headmasters followed Lillard, James E. Wickenden and Peter M. Webster. The current headmaster is Jay S. Stroud. He has served in that capacity since 1989.
The Tabor campus in the small town of Marion stretches along a half mile of Sippican Harbor on Buzzards Bay leading to the Atlantic. Tabor utilizes its waterfront location in a variety of ways. It is one of the few secondary schools in the United States to offer extensive programs in nautical science and oceanology. The school also owns Tabor Boy, a 92 foot Dutch Pilot Schooner, which is a certified school sailing vessel. Tabor Boy has logged tens of thousands of miles with her crews of Tabor students, from nearby Buzzards Bay to the Caribbean.
Tabor is primarily a boarding school with roughly 480 students enrolling each year. About 70 percent of those students live in dormitories on campus while the remaining 30 percent are day students who live at home and commute to school.
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