Chapin School (Manhattan)

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Location
The Chapin School

New York City, New York, U.S.
Information
Religion	No religious affiliation
Headmistress	Patricia T. Hayot
Type	Day School
Tuition	$29,100/annually per student
Mascot	Alligator
Color(s)	Green and Gold
Established	1901
Homepage	http://www.chapin.edu

The Chapin School, founded by Maria Bowen Chapin,^[1] 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). The school is a member of the New York Interschool. Tuition annually per student is $27,100.

1 History
2 Notable alumnae
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The Chapin School originally opened in 1901, at 12 West 47th Street as Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls with an enrollment of 78 students and seven teachers. Following two moves to 58th Street (in 1905) and 57th 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 84th Street (in 1928).

The first Chapin diplomas were awarded in 1908, and 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.

The school's emblem, the wheel, is modeled after the wheel that was meant to kill Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but miraculously fell apart. The wheel is claimed to symbolize a Chapin student's spirit of endurance and moral fortitude. The girls leave assembly in a wheel pattern.

The current Chapin uniform includes a green jumper, green shorts, and a white collared shirt for the Lower School, a green skirt, a white collared shirt, and green shorts for the Middle School, and a plaid skirt and any colored shirt, except for colors with red in them (red, pink, purple, ect.) for the Upper School. For Middle and Lower school, there are light and dark green skirts and jumpers.The light green skirts are generally worn in the spring and the early fall, while the dark green skirts are worn in late fall and winter. It is a rule that all shirts must cover the midriff. Nail polish is allowed in Upper School, but not in middle school. Excessive makeup and headgear can never be worn. Girls are allowed to wear appropriately colored tights, knee socks, ballet flats, boots, headbands, and scarves in Upper school.

The Chapin School has a longstanding tradition of green/gold field day. Every year, all the fourth graders and new students fifth grade and above are placed on either the green or the gold team. This is done at a special assembly, in which all of the new team members are given either a green or gold ribbon. As many daughters of former students attend the school, girls are assigned to the same team as their relatives. For example, if a girl's grandmother was a green, the girl will be a green also. Throughout the school year, the girls compete in Green vs. Gold games. At the end of the year the final color winner is announced and a banner with the winner is hung up in the gym.

The school is currently undergoing construction for the first time since 1997. The addition consists of two-and-a-half floors that will contain new language, science, a green house, and art facilities to account for the growth in student body. The construction will be finished in 2008, before the start of the 2008-2009 school year. Therefore, there will be nine and a half floors in the school.

Chapin ranked fourteenth at sending students to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.[1] The school placed third in a Wall Street Journal ranking of college placement at a sampling of eight universities and liberal arts colleges: MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins.[2]