{{Infobox school | name = Tabor Academy | image = | established = 1876 | type = Private, boarding | head_name = Headmaster | head = Anthony "Tony" Jaccaci | city = Marion | state = Massachusetts | country = US | motto = All-A-Taut-OVincit Semper Veritas(Truth Always Conquers) | campus_type = Suburban | enrollment = 514 | faculty = 86 | class = 12 students | ratio = 6:1 | athletics = 23 interscholastic, 15 instructional & club | colors = Crimson & Black | mascot = Seawolves | athletics_conference = New England Preparatory School Athletic Council | homepage = TaborAcademy.org}} Tabor Academy is an independent preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts, United States. Tabor is known for its marine science courses. Tabor's location on Sippican Harbor, Buzzards Bay, has earned it the name of "The School by the Sea". The Wall Street Journal in 2007 ranked Tabor as one of the world's top 50 schools to prepare students to gain acceptance to America's most elite universities. Tabor participates in the Independent School League (ISL) and is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council . History Taber's vision Tabor Academy was founded in 1876 as a school for children from Marion, Massachusetts, by a bequest in the will of Elizabeth Sprague (Pitcher) Taber, a wealthy widow and benefactress of the town. Article 27 of her will stated, "I have lately caused to be erected on a lot owned by me in Marion Lower Village, a building ... to be known as 'The Tabor Academy'." She named the school after Mount Tabor, a mountain of biblical importance near the Sea of Galilee. From its creation, the academy was co-educational just as Mrs. Taber had intended, established "to provide better and more complete facilities than had heretofore existed or were likely to exist for thorough education in the higher branches of English knowledge". The first headmaster was Clark Phelps Howland of Yale University, who reported in 1884 that "It is the aim of the school to give thorough instruction, and to encourage in its pupils a desire for the real rather than the showy, and to develop the moral as well as the intellectual element." The initial tuition fee for the Academy was $24, or $300 for students who wished to board in the headmaster's home. While Elizabeth Taber did not stipulate any particular religious affiliation for the