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]

The Shipley School has three divisions: Lower School (pre-kindergarten through grade 5), Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and Upper School (grades 9 through 12).

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• Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley, 1894–1916
• Alice Howland and Eleanor Brownell, 1916–1941
• Mildred and J. Russell Lynes, 1941–1944
• Margaret Bailey Speer, 1944–1965
• Isota Tucker Epes ’36, 1965–1972
• Nancy E. Lauber, 1972–1979
• Frederic L. Chase III, 1979–1985
• Gary R. Gruber, 1985–1992
• Steve Piltch, 1992–2019
• Michael G. Turner, 2019–present