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Interschool
The New York Interschool Association Inc., is a consortium of eight independent schools in Manhattan that serves students, teachers, and administration. Overview The Interschool is designed primarily for the coming together of the eight Manhattan private schools to do interschool activities, and also to the widely known Faculty Diverse Search and the Teachers Fellows and posting resumes for one of the member and associated schools. Teachers and professors may apply to any of the member or associated schools through Interschoo History Interschool's mission, in 1971, was to provide "school programming" to the single-sex independent schools in Manhattan. Member school activities From the Interschool's homepage: Faculty Diverse Search FDS seeks to recruit and select an outstanding pool of candidates of color for 25 New York City independent schools to consider for their faculty and administrative openings. Openings are for teachers of all grades, both entry-level and experienced. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Browning School
The Browning School is an independent school for boys in New York City. It was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. It offers instruction in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The school is a member of the New York Interschool consortium. History The school was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. Arthur Jones succeeded Browning as headmaster, in 1920, moved the school from West 55th Street to its present location on East 62nd Street, and also expanded extracurricular activities. Jones retired in 1948; Lyman B. Tobin, a Browning teacher for more than 30 years, became the school's third headmaster. In 1952, upon Tobin's retirement, the school named teacher Charles W. Cook (class of 1938), as its fourth headmaster. Under his 36-year leadership, the Browning School expanded rapidly. After a lengthy fundraising drive, the school bought the adjoining carriage house and rebuilt it, and the new building opened in 1960. The school's expansion continued in 1967, with the building of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brearley School
The Brearley School is an all-girls private school in New York City, located on the Upper East Side neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan. The school is divided into lower (kindergarten – grade 4), middle (grades 5–8) and upper (grades 9–12) schools, with approximately 50 to 60 students per grade. In addition to being a member of the New York Interschool Association, Brearley is considered a sister school of the all-boys Collegiate School, the all-girls Spence School and the nearby all-girls Chapin School, with which it shares an after-school program and some classes. History Samuel A. Brearley founded The Brearley School in 1884, and remained the head of school until 1886, when he died of typhoid fever. James G. Croswell was the next head until his death in 1915. Since 1926, Brearley has been headed by women, first by Millicent Carey McIntosh. In December 2011, Jane Foley Fried replaced former headmistress Stephanie J. Hull who had resigned for undisclosed reasons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegiate School (New York)
("Unless God, then in vain") nl, Eendracht maakt macht("In unity there is strength") , established = , streetaddress = 301 Freedom Place South , city = New York , state = New York , country = United States , zipcode = 10069 , campus = Urban , type = Private, day, college prep , gender = Boys , affiliations = Ivy Prep School League New York Interschool , headmaster = David S. Lourie , founder = The Rev. Jonas Michaelius and the Dutch West India Company , chairman = Jonathan Youngwood ’85 , faculty = 108 , students = 661 , grades = K- 12 , nickname = Dutchmen , colors = Orange and blue , newspaper = The Journal , yearbook = The Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapin School (Manhattan)
Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school originally enrolled 78 students, who were taught by seven teachers. It developed from a small elementary school Chapin and Alice Wetmore founded in 1894 that was explicitly intended to prepare young girls for success at the Brearley School, which had been created 10 years earlier. Chapin ran the educational side of "Primary Classes for Girls" and Wetmore ran the business end. The two ended their partnership in 1901, and Miss Chapin's School was born. Chapin's first high school diplomas were granted in 1908, and the last boys attended in 1917. According to archival sources recounted in ''And Cheer for the Green and Gold'', Chapin was an early feminist and suffragette who focused heavily on character development and intended the school to offer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity School (New York)
Trinity School (also known as Trinity) is a highly selective independent, preparatory, co-educational day school for grades K–12 located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, United States, and a member of both the New York Interschool and the Ivy Preparatory School League. It is regarded as one of the most elite private high schools in the United States, sending over 40% of graduating students to the Ivy League and other top schools. Founded in 1709 in the old Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, the school is the fifth oldest in the United States and the oldest continually operational school in New York City. It has a highly competitive admissions process. In 2011, ''The New York Times'' reported that the acceptance rate for Trinity's kindergarten was 2.4% and the high school's acceptance rate was comparable. History Trinity School traces its founding to 1709, when founder William Huddleston opened the school to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spence School
, motto_translation = Not for school, but for life we learn , founder = Clara B. Spence , tuition = $60,880 (2022-2023) , chair = , head_label = , head = , principal_label = Head of School , principal = Ellanor "Bodie" Brizendine , viceprincipal_label = , viceprincipal = , viceprincipal_label1 = , viceprincipal1 = , viceprincipal_label2 = , viceprincipal2 = , streetaddress = 56 East 93rd Street (Lower School)22 East 91st Street (Middle/Upper School) , city = New York City (Manhattan) , state = New York , country = U.S. , zipcode = 10128 , campus = Urban , faculty = 210 (2014–15) , class = , enrollment = 736 , enrollment_as_of = 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightingale-Bamford School
The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side, Nightingale-Bamford is a member of the New York Interschool consortium. Overview Nightingale's Lower School includes grades K-4. Middle School includes grades 5–8, while Upper School includes grades 9–12. As of 2021, Nightingale enrolls 686 students, the student-faculty ratio is 6:1, and the average class size is 12 students. Nightingale is typically ranked among the best all-girls private schools in the United States, and, like many private schools in Manhattan, is ranked as one of the most expensive. History Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford founded the school in 1920. NBS was originally named ''Miss Nightingale's School'', officially becoming "The Nightingale-Bamford School" in 1929. Since 1920, NBS has graduated nearly 3,000 alumnae. As of 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalton School
The Dalton School, originally the Children's University School, is a private, coeducational college preparatory school in New York City and a member of both the Ivy Preparatory School League and the New York Interschool. The school is located in four buildings within the Upper East Side of Manhattan. In November 2021, it was announced that José Manuel De Jesús would replace Interim Head of School Ellen Stein as Head in July 2022. Former Head of School Jim Best resigned in April 2021 after 16 years at the school. History The Dalton School, originally called the Children's University School, was founded by Helen Parkhurst in 1919. Parkhurst's "Dalton Plan", to which the school still adheres, reflected the Progressive Education movement that had begun in the late 19th century. After experimentation in her own one-room school with Maria Montessori, Helen Parkhurst visited other progressive schools in Europe including Bedales School and its founder and headmaster John Haden Badley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convent Of The Sacred Heart (New York)
Convent of the Sacred Heart is an American independent Roman Catholic all-girls' school in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Teaching from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, it is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side at East 91st Street and Fifth Avenue. The school is housed in the former Otto H. Kahn House and James A. Burden House, both of which are New York City-Designated Landmarks, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History Founded in 1881 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic congregation established in France in 1800, the school is one of New York City's oldest private schools for girls. The school was originally housed in a Manhattan brownstone on Madison Avenue at East 54th Street. By the 1930s, the school had outgrown its Madison Avenue space and moved into the Otto H. Kahn House. In 1940, the society acquired the James A. Burden House next door. Membership and accreditation In addition to being a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Red School House
The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, also referred to as LREI, is a school in Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Elisabeth Irwin in 1921 as the Little Red School House and is one of the city's first progressive schools. Created as a joint public-private educational experiment, the school tested principles of progressive education that had been advocated since the turn of the 20th century by John Dewey. The founders postulated that the lessons of progressive education could be applied successfully in the crowded, ethnically diverse public schools of the nation's largest city. History The school was founded in 1921 as a joint private-public educational experiment by reformer Elisabeth Irwin, and was well known as a testing ground for new concepts in education. In 1932, after the onset of the Great Depression caused the Public Education Association to withdraw the funding that had allowed the school to exist within the New York City public school sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Mann School
, motto_translation = Great is the truth and it prevails , address = 231 West 246th Street , city = The Bronx , state = New York , zipcode = 10471 , country = United States , coordinates = , type = Private school , established = , head_of_school = Thomas M. Kelly , grades = PK– 12 , enrollment = 1,793 (2021–22) , teaching_staff = 210.0 ( FTE) (2015–16) , ratio = 8.1 (2015–16) , conference = Ivy Preparatory School League NYSAISAA , nickname = Lions , mascot = The Lion , newspaper = The Record , yearbook = The Mannikin , affiliations = New York Interschool , website = , campus_type = Urban , colors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Grammar And Preparatory School
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School ("Columbia Grammar", "Columbia Prep", "CGPS", "Columbia") is the oldest nonsectarian independent school in New York City, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (5 West 93rd Street). The school serves grades Pre-kindergarten to 12 and offers a college preparatory curriculum. It was founded in 1764 by what is now Columbia University to teach future freshmen English, Greek, and Latin grammar.Sullivan, McDonald and Dixon, Ross, ''Columbia Grammar School 1764–1964: A Historical Log''. 1965, p. 1. The school was originally called The Grammar School of King's College, after the original name of Columbia University. When the college changed its name during the American Revolution, so did the school, to Columbia Grammar School. The school dissolved its formal ties with Columbia in 1865.Sullivan, McDonald and Dixon, Ross, ''Columbia Grammar School 1764–1964: A Historical Log''. 1965, p. 31. The word "preparatory" was added in 1969. The schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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