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Providence, Rhode Island United States |
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41°49′59.2″N 71°23′54.36″W / 41.833111°N 71.3984333°WCoordinates: 41°49′59.2″N 71°23′54.36″W / 41.833111°N 71.3984333°W View on Google Maps |
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Type | Private |
Religious affiliation(s) | Quaker |
Established | 1784 |
Head of school | Matt Glendinning |
Faculty | 216 |
Enrollment | 771 total |
Average class size | 13 students |
Student to teacher ratio | 8:1 |
Campus | Urban, 33 acres (130,000 m2) |
Color(s) | White and Navy Blue |
Athletics | 30 sports |
Mascot | Quaker |
Average SAT scores | Math - 750, Writing - 780, Reading - 720 |
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Moses Brown School
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Location | 250 Lloyd Avenue Providence, Rhode Island |
Area | 30 acres (12 ha) |
Built | 1819 |
Architect | Greene, John Holden; Brown, Joseph |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Second Empire |
NRHP Reference # | 80000088 |
Added to NRHP | July 24, 1980 |
41°49′59.2″N 71°23′54.36″W / 41.833111°N 71.3984333°WCoordinates: 41°49′59.2″N 71°23′54.36″W / 41.833111°N 71.3984333°W
Moses Brown School is a highly selective Quaker school located in Providence, Rhode Island offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. It was founded in 1784 by Moses Brown, a Quaker abolitionist, and is the 8th oldest preparatory school in the country . The school motto is “For the Honor of Truth” and the school song is "Beneath the Elms," a reference to the large grove of elm trees that still surrounds the school to this day.
Moses Brown (1738–1836) was a member of the Brown family, a powerful mercantile family of New England, a co-founder of Brown University, and a New England abolitionist and industrialist. He went on to become a pioneering advocate of abolition of slavery in the United States.