Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark
| The Lawrenceville School | |
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Lawrenceville, NJ United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°17′39″N 74°43′30″W / 40.29414°N 74.72494°WCoordinates: 40°17′39″N 74°43′30″W / 40.29414°N 74.72494°W |
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| Type | Private, Day & Boarding, College-prep |
| Motto |
Virtus Semper Viridis ("Virtue Always Green") |
| Established | 1810 |
| Head Master | Stephen Sheals Murray |
| Faculty | 113.3 FTEs |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 817 (as of 2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7.2:1 |
| Campus | 700 acres (2.8 km2) |
| Color(s) | Red and Black |
| Athletics conference | Mid-Atlantic Prep League, New Jersey Independent Schools Athletic Association |
| Sports | 21 sports teams |
| Mascot | Big Red |
| Rival | The Hill School |
| Accreditation | MSA |
| Average SAT scores | 670 critical reading 700 math 690 writing |
| Endowment | $381 Million (as of June 2016) |
| Affiliations |
NJAIS ESA TSAO |
| Website | www |
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Lawrenceville School
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Memorial Hall at Lawrenceville School
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Location in Mercer County, New Jersey
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| Location | Main Street, Lawrenceville, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°17′42″N 74°43′45″W / 40.29500°N 74.72917°W |
| Area | 17.74 acres (7.18 ha) |
| Architect | Peabody & Stearns; Frederick Law Olmsted |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne, Romanesque |
| NRHP reference # | 86000158 |
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| Added to NRHP | February 24, 1986 |
| Designated NHLD | February 24, 1986 |
The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school for students in ninth through twelfth grades. The school is located on 700 acres (2.8 km2) in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
Lawrenceville is a member of the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized in 2006. Lawrenceville is also a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, founded in 1966. There is a seven-school overlap of membership between the two groups. Lawrenceville was additionally formerly a member of the G20 Schools group. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 817 students and 113.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.2:1. The school's enrollment was 55.0% White, 9.9% Black, 6.0% Hispanic, 21.3% Asian and 7.8% two or more races. Students came from 34 states and 40 countries.
In 2010 Lawrenceville announced that Janie Woods, who died at age 87 in 2007, and her husband, Henry C. Woods Jr., had bequeathed the school $60 million, the largest donation in its 200-year history. As of October 2014, its endowment stood at $374 million.
Lawrenceville received 1,894 formal applications for entry in fall 2016, of which 354 were offered admission.
One of the oldest preparatory schools in the United States, Lawrenceville was founded in 1810 as the Maidenhead Academy by Presbyterian clergyman Isaac Van Arsdale Brown. As early as 1828, the school attracted students from Cuba and England, as well as from the Cherokee Nation. It had several names, including the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, the Lawrenceville Academy, and the Lawrenceville Classical Academy, before its current name, "The Lawrenceville School," was adopted during its refounding in 1883. An 18-acre (7.3 ha) area of the campus built then, including numerous buildings, has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark District, known as the Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark. An addition to the campus outside of that district was built in the 1920s. Lawrenceville's student body was almost entirely white for its first 150 years, with the first African American student admitted in 1964.
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