Princeton Day School
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Colross, the school administration building, a Georgian mansion relocated from Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
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| Location | |
| Princeton, NJ | |
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| Type | Private, day |
| Motto | Semper Luceat |
| Established | 1899 www.pds.org |
| Head of School | Paul Stellato |
| Faculty | 122.3 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | PreK–12 |
| Enrollment | 904 (in K–12 and 17 in preK, as of 2013–14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7.4:1 |
| Campus | 103 acres (0.42 km2) |
| Color(s) |
Blue and white |
| Athletics | 22 interscholastic sports |
| Athletics conference | Patriot Conference |
| Team name | Panthers |
| Average SAT scores | 645 Verbal 649 Math 654 Essay |
| Endowment | $43,000,000 |
| Tuition | $27,280 (PreK–4) / $31,890 (5–6) / $33,430 (7–12) |
| Website | www |
Princeton Day School is a private coeducational day school located in Princeton, New Jersey, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades The largest division is the Upper School (grades 9–12), with an enrollment of approximately 400. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1989.
As of the 2013–14 school year, the school had a total enrollment of 904 students (in grades K-12, plus 17 in pre-K) and 122.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.4:1.
Of the 2011 graduating class of Princeton Day School seniors, a third were honored as semi-finalists or commended scholars in the National Merit Scholarship Program. In the five years through 2011, the most common schools for members of the PDS graduating classes were University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Lehigh University, New York University and Boston University.
The school is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools.
Founded in 1899, Miss Fine's School in Princeton prepared girls for college with a curriculum including English, French, Latin, history and mathematics, at a time when women were not expected to attend college, and when only one out of eight children in America went to school at all. For years, the institution was, quite literally, Miss Fine's School; in addition to serving as Headmistress, taught all the subjects but French, maintained an individual interest in her students, and even "tended the furnace....often leaving in the middle of Latin class to do it."
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