A grand dame amongst New York City’s illustrious day schools, Spence has been educating young women since 1892 and has an enviable record in preparing pupils for placement in some of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The Spence School was established with a view to providing a classical education to girls
Established in 1920 by Frances Nightingale and Maya Bamford, the school was originally known as Miss Nightingale’s School. As one of the country’s leading college-preparatory schools, Nightingale-Bamford has achieved great admiration for its focus on developing young women for entry into the greatest universities and colleges in North America and has an illustrious roster of
Founded as the Children’s University School by acclaimed educator Helen Parkhurst, The Dalton School has grown to become one of the most famous names in American education, originating The Dalton Plan system of education . Located in Manhattan’s salubrious Upper East Side, The Dalton School offers K-12 preparatory education to young men and women in
One of the oldest schools in North America, Collegiate was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1628 to prepare boys for college entry with a classical, latin education in keeping with the endowed free schools of the United Kingdom. Collegiate School competes in a host of sports through the Ivy Preparatory School League and
Initially established in 1901 as a feeder school preparing girls for entry into The Brearley School, Chapin is a full K-12 all girls school in New York City with an international reputation for excellence. The school has long-been associated with the upper echelons of New York society and is considered one of the leading college preparatory
The Ivy Preparatory School League (as distinct from the separate Ivy League university conference) is an athletic conference consisting of eight private day schools in New York City offering varsity competition in a range of sports for both boys and girls. Many of the participating schools are members or associates of the prestigious New York Interschool network.
The Browning School was founded in the late 19th Century as part of a global trend towards establishing private schools tasked with the delivery of an educating befitting gentlemen. The school’s alumni list is a veritable who’s who of Manhattan society through the ages and the school still regularly receives pupils from those dynastic families
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A renowned Knickerbocker institution, The Brearley School has been educating the daughters of Manhattan society since it was founded in 1884 from it’s imposing Upper East Side campus. Brearley regularly places as the top all-girls private school in the United States and excels at ensuring pupils place at Ivy League colleges and top-tier Liberal Arts
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Founded in 1971, New York Interschool is a network and consortium of some of the leading private schools in New York City and serves to support the mutual development, administration and staffing needs of its eight member institutions. It is unique, as compared to other such consortia, in its’ focus on the development and training of faculty staff and, particularly, the promotion of diversity. In addition to the eight member schools, the consortium works with a number of associated schools.
Established in 1754 as King’s College by Royal Charter issued by King George II, Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, research-intensive university offering degree programmes from undergraduate to post-doctoral level. Located in uptown Manhattan’s Morningside Heights, Columbia is an academic powerhouse with a global renown. As the oldest institution of higher learning in New York State and the fifth oldest in the United States, Columbia’s story is deeply intertwined with the birth of the nation – originally located in a small schoolhouse in lower Manhattan, its purpose was to train the future leaders of the British colonies but instead produced many of the revolutionary heroes of American independence with alumni including Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and Gouverneur Morris. Maintaining its tradition as an educator of American leaders, the college counts three former Presidents amongst its alumnus and another as a former President of the University. The university changed its name to Columbia College following the War of Independence and to reflect its patriotism to the republic and moved to its uptown location in 1897.
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