Shipley School Explained

The Shipley School
Motto:Latin: Fortiter in Re; Leniter in Modo
Motto Translation:Courage for the deed; Grace for the doing
Address:814 Yarrow Street
Zipcode:19010
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Former Name:The Misses Shipley’s School Preparatory to Bryn Mawr College
Founders:Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley
Status:Open
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Head Of School:Michael G. Turner[1]
Faculty:130.8
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Enrollment:814
Enrollment As Of:2019–2020
Grade Prek:13
Gradek:25
Grade1:28
Grade2:36
Grade3:34
Grade4:38
Grade5:42
Grade6:39
Grade7:65
Grade8:70
Grade9:111
Grade10:105
Grade11:98
Grade12:103
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Average Class Size:14[2]
Ratio:6.2
Campus Type:Suburban
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Colors: Green & Blue
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Accreditation:ASN
Newspaper:The Beacon
Endowment:$31.60 million[3]
Annual Tuition:$41,975[4]
Revenue:$36.44 million
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The Shipley School is an independent pre-K12 college preparatory school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 10 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia.

History

Hannah Shipley, Elizabeth Shipley, and Katharine Shipley, all sisters, founded The Shipley School in 1888 as a preparatory school for Bryn Mawr College, a women's college located directly across the street. The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, highly educated Quaker women who created the school to pass on their values to similarly minded young women. The school opened in the fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members.[5]

By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students. At this time, about half of all Upper School students were boarders hailing from all over the country and from Europe, Asia, Russia, 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.

Campus

The Shipley School has three divisions: Lower School (pre-kindergarten through grade 5), Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and Upper School (grades 9 through 12).

Notable alumni

Heads of School[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Welcome from the Head of School . Admissions . The Shipley School . 1 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Stats at a Glance . About . The Shipley School . 1 March 2022.
  3. Web site: Form 990 . Internal Revenue Service . 1 March 2022 . 2019.
  4. Web site: Tuition 2022-2023 . Affording Shipley . The Shipley School . 1 March 2022.
  5. Web site: Shipley's History . About . The Shipley School . 1 March 2022.
  6. Shipley School honors alumni, continues 125th Anniversary Celebration with special programming this spring . Lower Merion . 17 October 2020 . Main Line Media News . May 21, 2019 . en . dead . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926051132/https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/entertainment/young-villanova-singer-to-perform-at-world-cafe-live/article_75451840-eee6-5720-ba8b-dcdd59db20ea.html.
  7. Web site: Stein. Linda. 3 December 2013. Young Villanova singer to perform at World Cafe Live. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210926051132/https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/entertainment/young-villanova-singer-to-perform-at-world-cafe-live/article_75451840-eee6-5720-ba8b-dcdd59db20ea.html. 26 September 2021. 2020-07-20. Main Line Media News. en. "I started writing my own music when I was 6," he said. "That really ignited my passion for music," said the Villanova native who is in ninth grade at The Shipley School..
  8. Web site: Gray . Ellen . 2020-05-29 . Philly’s David Corenswet is making it in Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ . 2024-01-17 . www.inquirer.com . en.
  9. Web site: 2022-09-08 . July Book Releases from Shipley Alumnae Authors . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  10. Web site: Episode 02 - The Science of Friendship with Lydia Denworth '84 . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  11. Web site: Stories by Lydia Denworth . 2024-01-17 . Scientific American . en.
  12. Web site: 2023-03-06 . 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award Presented to Helen Fisher ’63, PhD . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  13. News: Gensler. Howard. 28 March 2016. Shipley alumna Jessica Knoll says gang rape in her best-selling novel was real. Philadelphia Inquirer. 23 June 2020. Jessica Knoll, author of the best-selling novel Luckiest Girl Alive revealed Tuesday that the harrowing gang rape she depicted in her book wasn't fiction at all. It had happened to her, when she was a student at the prestigious Shipley School in Bryn Mawr..
  14. News: Anton . John . School . 14 July 2021.
  15. Web site: Beach House - Victoria Legrand - LSQ Podcast on Spotify. January 12, 2021. Spotify.
  16. Web site: Wisehart . Morgan . The Death of the High School Band . 2020-07-20 . Radnorite . You know a kid who's released a few songs, your friend has some locked diss tracks posted, not forgetting the mash-ups created by your next door neighbor, Chris Comstock, A.K.A Marshmello (Shipley; class of 2010)..
  17. Web site: 2011-05-12 . Alumni Spotlight on Madeline (Emmy) Miller ’96: Rewriting Homer's Iliad . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  18. Web site: Instagram . 2024-01-17 . www.instagram.com.
  19. News: 1915-05-15 . Death Comes to Vinton Liddell . 2021-08-27 . The Charlotte News . 5 . Newspapers.com.
  20. Web site: 2024-01-05 . Roxana Barry Robinson ’64: High Praise for Latest Novel . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  21. Web site: 2023-01-05 . Nancy Schwartzman ’93: 2023 Sundance Film Festival Selection . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  22. Web site: 2020-11-02 . Sarah Megan Thomas ’97: Filming—and Playing—Strong, Ambitious Women . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  23. Web site: 2023-03-06 . 2023 Young Alumni Award Presented to Alicia Roth Weigel ’08 . 2024-01-17 . The Shipley School . en.
  24. Web site: Shipley's History Shipley School . 2024-01-17 . www.shipleyschool.org.