The Chapin School (Manhattan)

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The Chapin School
Image:Chapin.png
Established	1901
School type	Day School
Religious affiliation	No religious affiliation
Headmistress	Dr. Patricia T. Hayot
Location	New York City, New York, USA
Color(s)	Green and Gold
Mascot	Alligator
Homepage	http://www.chapin.edu

The Chapin School, founded by Miss Maria Bowen Chapin, is a private school for girls located in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

In Chapin’s liberal arts curriculum, students are instructed and supported by a dedicated faculty. Class sizes are small in each of the three divisions: Lower School (Kindergarten through grade 3), Middle School (grades 4 through 7), and Upper School (grades 8 through 12).

1 History
2 Facilities
3 Notable alumnae
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The school originally opened in 1901, at 12 West Forty-seventh Street as Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls with an enrollment of seventy-eight students and seven teachers. Following two moves to Fifty-eighth Street (in 1905) and Fifty-seventh Street (in 1910), the school eventually relocated from midtown Manhattan to its present location on the Upper East Side at 100 East End Avenue and Eighty-fourth Street (in 1928).

The first Chapin diplomas were awarded in 1908.

1917 marked the last year that boys were included in the school.

The school's motto, Fortiter et Recte (Bravely and Rightly), shows Ms. Chapin's determination to get women to speak up, just as she did in her suffragette days. Many Chapin students are the daughters of Chapin alumnae.

The school's emblem, the wheel, is modeled after the wheel that killed Saint Catherine of Alexandria and is claimed to symbolise a Chapin student's spirit of endurance and moral fortitude. The girls leave assembly in a wheel pattern.

Chapin is an all-girls school, although has traditionally been considered amongst the many sister schools of The Collegiate School, an all-boys school in New York City.