Schools known for Ice Hockey.
28 schools editorially verified as known for ice hockey — with the pathway to prove it (fixtures record, national-squad output, dedicated facility). Elite Sport 80 members appear first.
- 01ProfileFaribault, MN, United StatesBoarding + Day
A quiet Rice County campus since 1858, whose two NHL-sized rinks have fed the sport's pro and Olympic pipelines for decades.
- 02ProfileLillehammer, NorwayDay
Built into Lillehammer's 1994 Olympic ski halls, pairing the Norwegian curriculum with elite biathlon, cross-country and ski jump training.
- 03ProfileWilcox, SK, CanadaBoarding + Day
On the Saskatchewan prairie, hockey, faith and academics share equal billing beneath the campus's landmark Tower of God
- 04ProfileExeter, United StatesBoth
Every class gathers around the same oval table Edward Harkness endowed in 1930, still central to Exeter's discussion-driven classrooms.
Also known forrowing - 05ProfileAndover, United StatesBoth
Founded in 1778 as the nation's oldest incorporated boarding school, its Harkness tables still turn lectures into conversation.
- 06ProfileLawrenceville, United StatesBoth
Since 1936, oval Harkness tables replace lectures with discussion, while a century-old House system anchors campus life
- 07ProfileDeerfield, United StatesBoth
In a preserved 1797 village along the Deerfield River, seniors close their English studies not with an exam, but a spoken meditation.
Also known forsquash - 08ProfileWallingford, United StatesBoth
A Wallingford campus where an I.M. Pei arts center anchors a rare, dedicated Arabic and Middle Eastern studies track.
- 09ProfileLakeville, United StatesBoth
On its 827-acre Berkshire campus, a 287-acre working farm supplies the dining hall and anchors the science curriculum.
- 10ProfileRolle, SwitzerlandBoarding
Term time splits between Lake Geneva and the Alps, a 140-year migration built around bilingual IB and French Baccalaureate study.
- 11ProfileMilton, United StatesBoth
Eight miles from Boston, a 1798 charter still runs on Harkness-table debate rather than lecture halls.
- 12ProfileWatertown, United StatesBoth
On 226 acres in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills, a 19-percent-acceptance boarding school still lives by one motto: to serve, not be served.
Also known forsquash - 13ProfileWindsor, United StatesBoth
On a river-cut 'Island' campus, seniors trade classrooms for client work each spring in the Innovation Trimester.
- 14ProfileBoston, United StatesGirlsDay
Founded in 1886 as Boston's only grade 5-12 school for girls, set amid Longwood's teaching hospitals and research campuses.
- 15ProfileWashington, D.C., United StatesBoysBoth
On the grounds of Washington National Cathedral, this all-boys school pairs daily chapel singing with a coordinate program next door.
- 16ProfileDedham, United StatesBoth
Founded in Boston in 1866, this Charles River campus pairs rigorous academics with hands-on EXCEL leadership training.
- 17ProfileConcord, United StatesBoth
A secular alternative to New England's church-affiliated academies since 1901, on an Olmsted-designed campus in historic Concord.
- 18ProfileRye, United StatesDay
Founded in 1869 as a girls' seminary in Westchester, this campus still measures success by its motto: not for self, but for service.
- 19ProfileBloomfield Hills, United StatesBoth
A National Historic Landmark campus designed by Eliel Saarinen houses college-prep classrooms inside Michigan's storied arts-and-science community
Also known forlacrosse - 20ProfileMinneapolis, United StatesDay
Forged from a 1974 merger of three Twin Cities schools, prized today for a nationally recognized debate program across its Hopkins and Minneapolis campuses.
Also known forfootball - 21ProfilePittsburgh, United StatesBoth
Born in 1883 from Pittsburgh steel money, now a four-campus prep school rooted around Fox Chapel's Croft and Morewood boarding houses.
- 22ProfileBasking Ridge, United StatesDay
A 1861-founded New Jersey day school whose soccer pitches were deemed fit to host Morocco's 2026 World Cup training camp.
- 23ProfileBethesda, United StatesBoysDay
An all-boys campus of 75 wooded acres near D.C., where a teacher-coach-mentor model pairs AP rigor with 22 varsity sports.
- 24ProfileMorristown, United StatesBoysDay
On a 187-acre abbey campus outside Morristown, Benedictine monks still guide a rigorous, near-1,500-year-old liberal arts tradition.
- 25ProfilePrinceton, United StatesDay
Formed by a 1965 merger of two century-old Princeton schools, pairing STEAM rigor with a rare four-year architecture program across 106 acres.
- 26ProfileToronto, CanadaGirlsBoth
A 22-acre Anglican foundation since 1894, where ten storied houses anchor a rigorous, wellbeing-driven liberal arts curriculum for girls in midtown Toronto.
- 27ProfileShawnigan Lake, CanadaBoth
On a 270-acre Vancouver Island campus, ten boarding houses hold Canada's largest full-time boarding community, a tradition since 1916.
- 28ProfileZuoz, SwitzerlandBoth
At 1,750 metres in the Engadine, IB and Swiss Matura classes share the calendar with cricket on Europe's highest pitch, in play since 1922.
