Oakwood Friends School
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| Coordinates | 41°39′20″N 73°55′37″W / 41.6555°N 73.9269°WCoordinates: 41°39′20″N 73°55′37″W / 41.6555°N 73.9269°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Boarding & Day |
| Founded | 1796 |
| Dean | Sara Sandstrom |
| Principal | Anna Bertucci |
| Head of school | Charles Cianfrani |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Gender | Co-ed |
| Average class size | 15 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 1:8 |
| School color(s) | Orange & Green |
| Mascot | Lions |
| Accreditation | New York Yearly Meeting |
| Newspaper | Oak Leaves |
| Endowment | $3 Million |
| Website | http://www.oakwoodfriends.org/ |
Oakwood Friends School is a college preparatory school located at 22 Spackenkill Road in Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded in 1796, it was the first college preparatory school in the state of New York. First located in Millbrook, New York under the name of Nine Partners Boarding School.
In 1794, the New York Yearly Meeting appointed a committee of twenty-five to establish a school; their first meeting was on January 13, 1795. On May 1 of that year the New York Yearly Meeting purchased a house and ten acres from Joseph Mabbet, a Quaker from Connecticut, for 1600 pounds, a down payment of 214 pounds was made from the donors: Tripp Mosher, Isaac Thorn, William Thorn, Joseph Talcott, Shadrach Richetson and Jonathan Deuel. With plans of opening a school for the children of nearby Quaker families, it opened on December 20, 1796, and was given the name, Nine Partners School in Mechanic which is now in South Millbrook, New York. By founding the school it made it the state’s first co-educational boarding and day school. The school’s first superintendent was R. Tripp Mosher and its first principal was Jonathan Talcott, a children’s book publisher. The school had a total of one hundred students: 70 boys and 30 girls. Children between the ages of seven and fourteen years old for girls and up to age fifteen for boys. A teacher at the school was Jacob Willets who was one of the first pupils its opening day of the school, became the head teacher in 1806 and taught until 1828. He was the author of an arithmetic, geography and an atlas, textbooks which were highly recommended and extensively used throughout the academic day. He and his wife Deborah, who was also a former pupil, and became teacher of grammar and mathematics, were head teachers together and contributed to the success during the early years of the school’s opening. Another teacher and former pupil, was Lucretia Coffin Mott who entered the school at age thirteen in 1806 and graduated in 1810. While there, she met teacher James Mott, son of one of the founders, whom she married in 1811. Lucretia later led abolition and women’s suffrage campaigns as well as working as a teaching assistant. Around that same era, a notable student of the school was Daniel Anthony, who would one day become the father of Susan B. Anthony, another famed early pioneer of women’s suffrage.
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