Editing Phillips Academy (section)

== Extracurriculars ==
Phillips Academy's extracurricular activities include music ensembles, a campus newspaper, an Internet radio station (formerly broadcasting as [[WPAA (Massachusetts)|WPAA]]), and a debate club. 

Andover's weekly student newspaper, ''The Phillipian'', claims to have been publishing since 1857.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://phillipian.net/about/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=The Phillipian}}</ref> If true, it would be the nation's oldest secondary school newspaper, ahead of Exeter's ''[[The Exonian]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://pdf.phillipian.net/1954/03111954.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023239/http://pdf.phillipian.net/1954/03111954.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=2011-01-17 |df=mdy}}</ref> However, the official school history questioned the 1857 date, noting that no further issues were published until 1878, the same year ''The Exonian'' began publishing.<ref>Allis, p. 301.</ref><ref name="Crimson 10th">{{cite news |date=May 1, 1928 |title=The Exonian's Anniversary |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1928/5/1/the-exonians-anniversary-pthe-faith-of/ |access-date=24 August 2023 |work=[[The Harvard Crimson]]}}</ref> According to the ''Phillipian'' website, the newspaper is "entirely uncensored and student run."<ref name=":12" />

The Philomathean Society is the nation's second-oldest high school debating society, after Exeter's Daniel Webster Debate Society.<ref>"{{cite web |title=Endowment.phillipian.net is almost here! |url=http://endowment.phillipian.net/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827001510/http://endowment.phillipian.net/ |archive-date=August 27, 2016 |access-date=2015-03-08 |df=mdy}}"</ref>

Andover students operate the Phillips Academy Poll, the first public opinion poll to be conducted by high school students. In 2022, the poll was featured by [[WHDH (TV)|Boston Channel 7 News]] and ''[[The New Yorker]]'', among others, after releasing polling results for the 2022 midterm elections.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dougherty |first=Justin |date=April 20, 2022 |title=Phillips Academy in Andover publishes first-ever public opinion poll conducted by high school students |url=https://whdh.com/news/phillips-academy-in-andover-publishes-first-ever-public-opinion-poll-conducted-by-high-school-students/ |access-date=June 20, 2022 |work=[[WHDH (TV)|7News Boston]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Helfand |first=Zach |date=2022-11-06 |title=Meet the New Nates: Two Day Students at Andover |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/meet-the-new-nates-two-day-students-at-andover |access-date=2024-03-17 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> The original pollsters graduated in 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Let's Discuss... |url=https://www.andover.edu/news/2022/poll-position |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Andover {{!}} An independent and inclusive coed boarding high school |language=en-US}}</ref> and the current status of the poll is unknown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Andover Poll |url=https://andoverpoll.com/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Andover Poll}}</ref>