Shipley School

The Shipley School
Address
814 Yarrow Street Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania 19010 United States
Coordinates	40°01′29″N 75°18′54″W / 40.0248°N 75.3150°W / 40.0248; -75.3150
Information
Former name	The Misses Shipley’s School Preparatory to Bryn Mawr College
Type	Independent college-preparatory school
Motto	Latin: Fortiter in Re; Leniter in Modo (Courage for the deed; Grace for the doing)
Religious affiliation(s)	Nonsectarian[1]
Established	1894; 130 years ago (1894)
Founders	Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley
Status	Open[1]
CEEB code	390485
NCES School ID	01197377[1]
Head of school	Michael G. Turner[2]
Faculty	130.8 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	814[1] (2019–2020)
• Pre-kindergarten	13
• Kindergarten	25
• Grade 1	28
• Grade 2	36
• Grade 3	34
• Grade 4	38
• Grade 5	42
• Grade 6	39
• Grade 7	65
• Grade 8	70
• Grade 9	111
• Grade 10	105
• Grade 11	98
• Grade 12	103
Average class size	14[3]
Student to teacher ratio	6.2[1]
Campus type	Suburban[1]
Color(s)	Green & Blue
Athletics conference	Friends' Schools League
Mascot	Gator
Accreditation	ASN[1]
Newspaper	The Beacon
Endowment	$31.60 million[4]
Annual tuition	$41,975[5]
Revenue	$36.44 million[4]
Website	www.shipleyschool.org

The Shipley School is an independent pre-K–12 college preparatory school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 10 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia.

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.^[6] The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, highly educated Quaker women who created the school to pass on their values to similarly minded young women.^[6] The school opened in the fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members.^[6]

By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students.^[6] 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.^[6]

During the 1970s and 1980s, Shipley discontinued its boarding department and began to admit male students.^[6] The last boarders graduated in 1982, and by 1984 the school was fully coeducational with equal numbers of girls and boys.^[6]

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).

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• Robb Armstrong, author of Jump Start comic strip^[7]
• Gavin Becker, American singer, songwriter and actor^[8]
• David Corenswet, American actor, screenwriter, and producer^[9]
• Alice Elliot Dark, American writer^[10]
• Lydia Denworth, award-winning science writer and contributing editor for Scientific American^[11][12]
• Helen Fisher, anthropologist^[13]
• Tad Friend, journalist^{[citation needed]}
• Jessica Knoll, author^[14][15]
• Victoria Legrand, of the dream pop duo Beach House^[16]
• Dave Lieberman, chef and physician^{[citation needed]}
• Marshmello, American electronic music producer/DJ^[17]
• Madeline Miller, author^[18]
• Pamela Miller, American politician, first woman mayor of Lexington, Kentucky^[19]
• Vinton Liddell Pickens, American county planner and artist^[20]
• Roxana Robinson, American novelist and biographer^[21]
• Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
• Nancy Schwartzman, documentary filmmaker and author^[22]
• Nancy Talbot, American businesswoman
• Sarah Megan Thomas, American actor, writer, and film maker^[23]
• Dana Veraldi, artist^{[citation needed]}
• Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex activist and writer^[24]
• Beatrice Wood, artist and studio potter^{[citation needed]}

• Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley, 1894–1916
• Alice Howland and Eleanor Brownell, 1916–1941
• Mildred and J. Russell Lynes, 1941–1944
• Margaret Bailey Speer, 1944–1965
• Isota Tucker Epes ’36, 1965–1972
• Nancy E. Lauber, 1972–1979
• Frederic L. Chase III, 1979–1985
• Gary R. Gruber, 1985–1992
• Steve Piltch, 1992–2019
• Michael G. Turner, 2019–2024
• Steve Lisk, 2024-2025 (interim)