Wardlaw-Hartridge School
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The Wardlaw-Hartridge School is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in Edison, New Jersey, United States, serving 700 students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade (as of June 2006).[citation needed]
The Wardlaw-Hartridge School is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
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[edit] History
[edit] The Wardlaw School
The Leal School for Boys in Plainfield was founded in 1882. In 1916, Charles Digby "Pop" Wardlaw moved from teacher to Head and purchased the school, and changed its name to The Wardlaw School.
[edit] The Hartridge School
The Misses Scribner and Newton's School for Girls was founded in 1884. The school name was changed to The Hartridge School, when Miss Emelyn Hartridge became the school's Head and owner in 1903.
[edit] The Wardlaw-Hartridge School
The two schools merged in 1976. The resulting coeducational Wardlaw-Hartridge school remained a two-campus school until 1997. The former Hartridge campus became the Oakwood campus for the K - 7 Lower School, while the former Wardlaw Country Day Upper School campus became the home to the Upper school for grades 8 - 12.
In 1991, many students of the Vail-Deane School were assimilated into the Wardlaw-Hartridge School, and the two schools' Alumni Associations were merged.
In 1997, the consolidation on a single campus was completed when the Lower School moved into a new building on the Upper School campus in Edison.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Archibald Cox — US Solicitor General (1961-1965); First Special Prosecutor of Richard Nixon
- Mary McCormack (1969) — Actress
[edit] External links
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