Frazer School Physics Team wins national Physics Bowl championship

Press release from the Frazer School

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Frazer School Physics Team recently earned the highest score in the USA, and the highest score in the world, in the 2025 AAPT Physics Bowl.

In this competition, students take a 40-question, 45-minute physics test, and then the five highest scores from each school are added together to make the team scores. The physics team at the Frazer School is used to putting up high scores and setting the bar in Gainesville for excellence, and their recent global accomplishment will raise the bar even higher.

The AAPT, the organization responsible for choosing the USA Physics Olympiad team, hosts the Physics Bowl. Only Americans are allowed to participate in the USA Physics Olympiad, so they host the Physics Bowl for any pre-collegiate students in the world who want to test their mettle. This year there were 12,275 students taking the exam, representing more than 1,000 teams from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cambodia, China, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, and the United States, according to Physics Bowl Academic Coordinator Jon Anderson. 

Physics teacher Marc Moody says, “An accomplishment like this takes years of work. Physics is very challenging, and it is easy to get frustrated when the answers don’t just come to you right away. Most of these kids have been studying physics for four years or more, and I am incredibly proud of their determination and of their achievements.”