Nichols School

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Nichols School
Location
Buffalo, NY, USA
Information
Religion none
Headmaster Richard C. Bryan, Jr.
Enrollment

580 day
Faculty 71
Average class size 14 students
Student:teacher ratio 8:1
Type Private, Day, Grades 5-12
Campus Urban, 30 acres
Athletics N/A
Mascot Viking
Color(s) Green & White
Established 1892
Homepage http://www.nicholsschool.org/

Nichols School is a private, co-educational college-preparatory school located in Buffalo, New York, USA.

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[edit] History

Nichols School was founded in 1892 by William Nichols.

Our aim is to train minds, bodies and hearts for the work of life, and to carry into all we do the highest ideals of character and service. - Joseph D. Allen, 1909 (Second Headmaster)

[edit] Faculty

Faculty, chosen for their expertise, regularly publish in their academic field: 75% have master's degrees; 10% have doctoral degrees. Fourteen percent of the faculty are Nichols graduates. According to the school, they are committed to the school's educational mission and they have an average of 19.5 years of service. Teachers are involved in student life beyond their classrooms, serving as student advisors, coaches, club advisors and mentors. They recently hired a new Athletic Director.

[edit] Campus

Nichols School is located on 25 acres in North Buffalo, within walking distance of the Buffalo Zoo, Delaware Park, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The Nichols campus includes six separate buildings linked by tree-lined sidewalks and an indoor passageway. The campus consolidation project, completed in August 2001, joined the Middle and Upper school divisions. Each division has its own separate academic buildings, and shares dining, athletic, and performing arts facilities.

The Nichols campus currently includes "Regan Hall", Donaldson Hall (the Middle School), "The Glenn and Awdry Flickinger Performing Arts Center", "Mitchell Hall", "Albright Hall", "Moot Hall", "Scully Athletic Center and Laettner Gymnasium", "Dann Memorial Ice Rink". Other athletic facilities include five tennis and three international squash courts.

In 2006, the Nichols School Board of Trustees voted to proceed with a $21.3 Million "Nichols Future" capital campaign . This campaign consists of three major strategies which will alter the appearance of the campus. Strategy #1 calls for the construction of a new LEED gold accredited, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m²), $10.3 million math/science/technology center. Construction is expected to begin in September 2008 with the hope that the building will be completed for the 2009-2010 school year. Strategy #2 is a commitment to increase the school's endowment fund by an expected $5 million. Under Strategy #3, Nichols will reconfigure and increase its current athletic fields, as well as create an outer-ring traffic/parking system. During the Summer of 2008 Strategy #3 will near completion as in October 2007, Nichols completed the construction of two new synthetic turf playing fields. In early April 2008, construction crews began altering the parking/traffic flow of the campus to create the new outer-ring system. This construction is expected to be finished in time for the 2008-2009 school year.

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[edit] Academics

[edit] Artists and personalities

[edit] Athletes

[edit] External links

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