Lawrenceville School
 Lawrenceville School  (School)   | |
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| Formation | 1810 |
| Headquarters | US |
| One of the oldest and most expensive preparatory schools in the United States | |
The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, preparatory school located in Mercer County, New Jersey.
One of the oldest preparatory schools in the United States[1] In its 2015 rankings the year before, Business Insider had ranked the school's tuition as the 2nd most expensive private high school tuition in the United States, with tuition and fees of $48,700 behind the $49,092 charged by Connecticut's Salisbury School.[2]
History
Lawrenceville was founded in 1810 as the Maidenhead Academy by Presbyterian clergyman Isaac Van Arsdale Brown. As early as 1828, the school attracted students from Cuba and England, as well as from the Cherokee Nation. It had several names, including the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, the Lawrenceville Academy, and the Lawrenceville Classical Academy, before its current name, "The Lawrenceville School," was adopted during its refounding under the John Cleve Green Foundation in 1883. An 18-acre (7.3 ha) area of the campus built then, including the Hamill House and numerous other buildings, has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. This portion of the campus includes buildings designed to a master plan by Peabody and Sterns, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted.[3] An addition to the campus outside of that district was built in the 1920s. Lawrenceville's student body was almost entirely white for its first 150 years, with the first African American student admitted in 1964.[4]
Lawrenceville was all-male until the Board of Trustees voted to make the school coeducational in 1985. The first girls were admitted in 1987, and 178 of the 725 students were female during the 1987-88 school year.[5]
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Akerlof | 17 June 1940 | US | Academic Economist | American economist married to Janet Yellen. Was given the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. | |
| William Walton Butterworth | 7 September 1903 | 31 March 1975 | US | Diplomat | American diplomat to China, and to Canada during the 1963 regime change. |
References
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-elite-boarding-schools-in-america-2016-2
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-elite-boarding-schools-in-america-2016-2
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090225013516/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1954&ResourceType=District
- ↑ http://thelawrencevilleschool1.weebly.com/about.html
- ↑ http://articles.philly.com/1988-03-20/news/26277323_1_private-schools-lawrenceville-school-girls
