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| The Chapin School | |
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| Location | |
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| New York, NY, USA | |
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| Type | Day School |
| Religious affiliation | No religious affiliation |
| Established | 1901 |
| Headmistress | Patricia T. Hayot |
| Color(s) | Green and Gold |
| Mascot | Alligator |
| Tuition | $30,750 |
| Website | http://www.chapin.edu |
The Chapin School, founded by Maria Bowen Chapin,1 is a private school for girls located in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
In Chapin’s liberal arts curriculum, students are instructed and supported by a dedicated faculty. Class sizes are small in each of the three divisions: Lower School (Kindergarten through grade 3), Middle School (grades 4 through 7), and Upper School (grades 8 through 12). The school is a member of the New York Interschool. Tuition annually per student is $30,750.
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History
The Chapin School originally opened in 1901, at 12 West 47th Street as Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls with an enrollment of 78 students and seven teachers. Following two moves to 58th Street (in 1905) and 57th Street (in 1910), the school eventually relocated from midtown Manhattan to its present location on the Upper East Side at 100 East End Avenue and 84th Street (in 1928).
The first Chapin diplomas were awarded in 1908, and 1917 marked the last year that boys were included in the school.
The school's motto, Fortiter et Recte (Bravely and Rightly), shows Miss Chapin's determination to get women to speak up, just as she did in her suffragette days.
The school's emblem, the wheel, is modeled after the wheel that was meant to kill Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but miraculously fell apart. The wheel is claimed to symbolize a Chapin student's spirit of endurance and moral fortitude. The students leave assembly, which is called prayers, in a wheel pattern.
The Chapin School has a longstanding tradition of green/gold field day. Every year, all the fourth graders and new students fifth grade and above are placed on either the green or the gold team. This is done at a special assembly, in which all of the new team members are given either a green or gold ribbon. As many daughters of former students attend the school, girls are assigned to the same team as their relatives. For example, if a girl's grandmother was a green, the girl will be a green also. Throughout the school year, the girls compete in Green vs. Gold games. At the end of the year the final color winner is announced and a banner with the winner is hung up in the gym.
The school has recently finished undergoing construction for the first time since 1997. The addition consists of two-and-a-half floors that will contain new language, science, a green house, and art facilities to account for the growth in student body. The construction was finished for the 2008-2009 school year. Therefore, there will be eight and a half floors in the school.
Chapin ranked 14th at sending students to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.2 In late 2007, the school placed third in a Wall Street Journal ranking of college placement at a sampling of eight universities and liberal arts colleges: MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins.3
Notable alumnae
- Stockard Channing4
- Anna Roosevelt Halsted
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Queen Noor of Jordan
- Lilly Pulitzer
- Samantha Ronson
- Delia Sherman
- Sunny von Bulow
- Vera Wang5
- Sigourney Weaver
- Christine Todd Whitman6
- Jane Wyatt7
- Ivanka Trump
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis attended
References
- ^ Online history of the Chapin School
- ^ http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html
- ^ Staff writer (2007-12-28). "How the Schools Stack Up". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2008-07-25.
- ^ Stockard Channing's NNBD biography
- ^ About Vera Wang
- ^ Christine Todd Whitman's NNBD biography
- ^ Jane Wyatt's NNBD biography
- Noerdlinger, Charlotte Johnson. And Cheer for the Green and Gold: An Anecdotal History of the Chapin School. New York: The Chapin School, 2000.
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