Shipley School
| The Shipley School | |
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| Location | |
| 814 Yarrow Street, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Coeducational Independent College Preparatory School |
| Motto |
Fortiter in Re; Leniter in Modo "Courage for the deed; Grace for the doing" |
| Established | 1894 |
| Head of school | Steve Piltch |
| Enrollment | 846 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7:1 |
| Color(s) | Baby Blue and Forest Green |
| Mascot | Gator |
| Information | (610) 525-4300 |
| Website | http://www.shipleyschool.org |
The Shipley School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school with approximately 1,000 students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Shipley is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, approximately 12 miles west of Philadelphia.
In October 2017, The Shipley School was named 8th in the 2017 Best Private K-12 Schools in Philadelphia Metro by Niche. In January 2014, The Shipley School was named 25th in the top 25 SAT scores in the country by Niche (company). In September 2006, The Shipley School was named the number one coeducational school in the Philadelphia area and the number two school overall by Philadelphia Magazine.
In 1889, three sisters—Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley—founded Shipley to prepare girls for Bryn Mawr College, which is located directly across the street. The Shipley sisters were strong-minded, well-educated Quaker women and envisioned the school as far more than a mere finishing school. When the school opened in the Fall of 1894, with six students and nine faculty members, a philosophy of education was established that would guide the school for over a hundred years, up to the present time.
By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded its purpose and student body admitting approximately 340 students and sending its graduates to many traditional women's colleges. At this time, about half of all Upper School students were boarders hailing from all over the country and from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Shipley discontinued its boarding department and began to admit male students. The last boarders graduated in 1982, and by 1984 the school was fully coeducational with equal numbers of girls and boys. Starting in the 1990s, and increasingly since then, Shipley has augmented their traditional teaching methods and facilities with growing technological expertise and equipment.
Shipley's curriculum, increasingly interdisciplinary and project-based, is designed specifically to give students the tools to succeed in college and in life in the 21st century.
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