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Private boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania

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| revenue = $1.44 billion On November 15, 1909, he and his wife, Catherine Hershey, signed over a piece of farmland, forming the Hershey Industrial School. The first four boys were admitted in September 1910. In 1918, following Catherine's death three years prior, Milton put most of his fortune—including his share of his company's stock—into a trust for the school, valued at $60 million altogether. and 1034 boys in 1937. In 1934, a junior senior high school building was opened at the site with a capacity for 1500 students. By then the school had acquired about 10,000 acres of land. The school's name was changed from Hershey Industrial School to Milton Hershey School in 1953, reportedly to eliminate the possibility of "industrial" connoting a reform school. The school's selection of students broadened in the 1960s and 70s. Following a 1968 decision upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which ordered the racial desegregation of Girard College, Milton Hershey School admitted its first non white student. School official James E. Bobb, however, stated that the decision to admit racial minorities was unrelated to the ruling. In 1976, the school expanded its definition of orphanhood to include "social orphans", those with single or divorced parents. In November of that year, the school successfully petitioned the Dauphin County Court on allowing girls based on their charter. The first eight girls arrived in March 1977. by September 1978, female students made up 10% of the 1300 students. Cyndi Jacobsen wrote in 1989 in The Sentinel that "students chafe under the rules, the lack of privacy and individuality, and the anachronistic dairy barns  [b]ut graduates tend to look back at their experience as a survival test". She said that house parents varied widely in their treatment, with some "rigid and authoritarian" and others "warm and affirming." Later that year, the school's longtime tradition of requiring all grade 9–12 students to milk cows, twice daily, was rescinded, with strong approval from students and the board. Director of secondary education John Storm justified the change, stating that "the school revolved around the milking program, when in fact we wanted it to revolve around educational opportunities". In 2002, the school had about 1,500 students; over the next two decades, the school grew to about 2,000 students. In late 2011, a 13 year old was denied admission to the school because he was HIV positive. While the school initially defended its decision, citing safety concerns, an anti discrimination lawsuit filed by the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania led to a settlement of $700,000 for the boy's family and a reversal of the policy. In 2013, 14 year old student Abbie Bartels committed suicide shortly after being denied attendance at the school's eighth grade graduation. While the family brought a lawsuit against the school, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit refused in early 2021 to revive the lawsuit, agreeing that the case was tragic but that the school could not be held responsible for her death. In 2016, eleven former students sued the school for invasion of privacy, alleging that an employee had hidden a camera in a bathroom for senior male students. The employee admitted to filming the boys' showering and was sentenced to a year in prison. In 2017, former student Adam Dobson sued the school after the school expelled Dobson for attempting suicide. Dobson later stated that he was forced to watch a religious gay conversion video. A court dismissed the lawsuit in 2020. In 2017, Milton Hershey School received its first accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) for its campus security. In 2020, Milton Hershey School received its second CALEA accreditation recognizing the school's Central Monitoring staff for excellence in Public Safety Communications.

Milton Hershey School's endowment was worth around $15 billion in 2020, about half of which comes from the school's controlling share of The Hershey Company's stock; the school is the US's wealthiest private school (besides universities and colleges). Only about 1.5% of this sum is used per year for educational programs, spending about $118,400 per year on each student. The proportionally low spending has been controversial. Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor John Core called it "ludicrous", and Georgetown University law professor Brian Galle called it "indefensibly low". Galle said the low spending was because the school "can't seem to conceivably find any way to spend this pile of money". School officials countered that the school must adhere to the spending limits of Hershey's original deed. In 2020, Milton Hershey School invested $350 million to fund the development of up to six cost free early childhood resource centers in Pennsylvania. Named Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning, the first center will open in 2023, and serve children from birth to age five from economically disadvantaged and at risk backgrounds.

In 2017, Milton Hershey School created a partnership with Penn State University, its seventh such partnership to offer graduates of Milton Hershey School support at the college level as first generation college students. Other similar partnerships are with Mansfield University, Shippensburg University, East Stroudsburg University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Millersville University.

The school is split into three cohorts: pre K through 4th grade, 5th through 8th grade, and 9th through 12th grade. The school offers college scholarships for some students and has special partnerships with about twenty colleges for student transitions. 85 to 90 percent of students continue to post secondary education.

According to the school's website, students are admitted on five criteria: having a family income less than twice the federal poverty level, being age 4 to 15, having an IQ over 80, lacking serious behavioral problems, and being able to "benefit from the school's program". The school is cost free for students. Each year, an average of 12.5% of the student population leaves, mostly by graduating or being removed by their parents. A quarter to a third of departures are expulsions.

The school's address is 1201 Homestead Lane, Hershey, Pennsylvania, just off U. S. Highway 322. as of 2015, the school trust owns of land, about of which are school campuses. Of the eight campuses, the main campus is by far the largest at 3,340 acres.

In 2016, Milton Hershey School's science curriculum supervisor Dr. Jaunine Fouche received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. In 2017, the Law, Public Safety and Security program at Milton Hershey School was recognized as the Advance CTE National Program of Excellence. In 2019, Milton Hershey School's elementary innovation lab instructor Joel Crowley received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.