The 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 850 students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Through our commitment to educational excellence, we develop within each student a love of learning and a desire for compassionate participation in the world. Shipley is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, approximately 12 miles west of Philadelphia.
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.
The Shipley School, a Pre-Kindergarten - grade 12 coeducational day school, is committed to educational excellence and dedicated to developing in each student a love of learning and a compassionate participation in the world. Through a strong college preparatory curriculum in the humanities and sciences, the school encourages curiosity, creativity, and respect for intellectual effort. Shipley upholds and promotes moral integrity, a sense of personal achievement and worth, and concern for others at school and in the larger community.
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