Milton Hershey School
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1201 Homestead Lane Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°16′12″N 76°37′36″W / 40.27000°N 76.62667°WCoordinates: 40°16′12″N 76°37′36″W / 40.27000°N 76.62667°W |
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| Type | Private boarding school |
| Established | November 15, 1909 |
| President | Peter G. Gurt |
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Elementary Division: Carol Schilling |
| Faculty | 130 |
| Grades | Pre-K-12 |
| Enrollment | Admission process |
| Number of students | >2,000 |
| Campus size | 2,640 acres |
| Campus type | Rural |
| Color(s) | Gold & Brown |
| Athletics | football, soccer, track and field, cross country, baseball, softball, field hockey, swimming, diving, wrestling, cheerleading, basketball, hockey |
| Affiliation | The Hershey Company |
| Information | Office of Admissions: (800) 322-3248 |
| Endowment | >U.S. $7.8 Bn; provided by the Milton Hershey School Trust |
| Website | mhskids.org |
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Elementary Division: Carol Schilling
Middle Division: Nadine Krempa
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic (pre-K through 12) boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely Hershey and his wife, Catherine Sweeney Hershey. The school was originally established for impoverished, healthy, Caucasian, male orphans, while today it serves students of various backgrounds. The Milton Hershey School Trust, which funds the school, owns controlling interest in The Hershey Company and owns the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company (HE&R) which oversees many of the area hotels along with a theme park called Hersheypark. With over twelve billion dollars in assets,} the Milton Hershey School is one of the wealthiest schools in the world. The school is overseen by a Board of Managers.
The school currently serves more than 2,000 students. A member of CORE: Coalition for Residential Education, it is the largest residential education program in the US.
“It was Kitty's idea,” Milton Hershey always said when he spoke of the Hershey Industrial School. “If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.”
Fifteen years younger than her husband, Catherine Hershey developed an undiagnosable illness circa 1901, and was increasingly sickly for years. Hershey’s father, Henry, had been highly intelligent, but not too realistic; his get-rich schemes never worked too well. Hershey did not cope well with the instability; he had attended seven different schools, yet never made it into the fifth grade, so when Kitty was unable to bear children, the Hersheys decided to give needy kids the kind of upbringing he never had. Milton and Catherine Hershey established a home and a school for “poor, healthy white, male orphans between the ages of 8 through 18 years of age.”
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