Spotlight on The Lawrenceville School

Today's spotlight takes us to The Lawrenceville School. Situated in a scenic southern New Jersey town just five miles from Princeton, Lawrenceville was founded in 1810 as the Maidenhead Academy. In 1883 after operating under several other names it sorted itself out as The Lawrenceville School and has been so ever since.

What makes the school special besides, of course, Big Red athletics? Several things. How about a house system devised years ago by one of the early headmasters. Or the Olmstead designed Circle? (Frederick Law Olmstead was the famous landscape architect who designed Central Park). Or the Harkness Table teaching style? Or the fact that it was a boys' school until 1985 when it finally admitted girls. The school embraced coeducation/equality so thoroughly that it appointed its first female head master in 2003.

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