Shipley School

Hannah Shipley, Elizabeth Shipley, and Katharine Shipley, all sisters, founded The Shipley School in 1888 as a preparatory school for Bryn Mawr College, a women's college located directly across the street.[6] The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, highly educated Quaker women who created the school to pass on their values to similarly minded young women.[6] The school opened in the fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members.[6]

By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students.[6] At this time, about half of all Upper School students were boarders hailing from all over the country and from Europe, Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and Latin America.[6]

During the 1970s and 1980s, Shipley discontinued its boarding department and began to admit male students.[6] The last boarders graduated in 1982, and by 1984 the school was fully coeducational with equal numbers of girls and boys.[6]

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