Bryn Mawr School
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The Bryn Mawr School (BMS) is an independent, nonsectarian, college-preparatory school for girls from preschool through grade twelve. Founded in 1885, BMS is located in the Roland Park community of Baltimore, Maryland.
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[edit] Faculty
In 2005-2006, Bryn Mawr has 78 full-time and 19 part-time faculty teaching in grades kindergarten through 12. The student to faculty ratio is 8:1, and the average faculty tenure at Bryn Mawr is approximately 13 years. In addition, approximately 57 percent of the faculty hold advanced degrees and 18 percent represent minority groups.
[edit] Academics
Coordination with the nearby Gilman School and Roland Park Country School at the Upper School level offers Bryn Mawr girls a wide range of electives and the opportunity for coed classes. Coordinate classes are concentrated at the junior and senior levels; offerings in some foreign languages begin in ninth grade although most students take Latin and French or Spanish in middle school.
[edit] Athletics
The athletics program provides a wide range of offerings for girls – 15 sports in the Upper School, including crew and squash and 12 sports at the Middle School level.
[edit] Fall
- Varsity/JV Soccer
- Varsity/JV Volleyball
- Cross country running
- Varsity/JV Tennis
- Varsity/JV & Fresh-Soph Field Hockey
[edit] Winter
- Varsity/JV Basketball
- Varsity/JV Squash
- Indoor Soccer
- Indoor Track and field
- Swim team
[edit] Spring
[edit] Traditions
Life at Bryn Mawr is centered on countless traditions, including:
- Celebration of the school flower, the daisy, which appears on the school seal, on class rings, and in the baskets carried by all graduating seniors.
- An annual all-school calisthenic exercise ceremony on the hockey field, called "Gym Drill"
- An annual spring fair called the "Bazaar"
- The requirement that all graduating seniors must give a speech at daily Convocation
- An annual fall celebration of the five pioneering female founders of the school
- A uniform for all girls in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade
[edit] Notable alumni or faculty
- Julia Randall, an American poet
- Esther Boise Van Deman, a leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Edith Hamilton, a noted writer on the classics
