Chapin School, Private girls school in Upper East Side, New York, United States.
The Chapin School is a private girls school on the eastern edge of Manhattan that teaches students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The building on East End Avenue includes modern classrooms, science labs, and a computer room for digital projects.
Maria Bowen Chapin founded the school in 1901 as one of the first independent girls schools in New York. She started with a small number of students in a rented room before moving to the current building on the Upper East Side.
The name honors the founder who taught girls at the turn of the 20th century. Students wear school uniforms and attend daily assemblies where they sing together and listen to announcements.
Visits are only possible by prior arrangement, as this is an active school with daily classes. The building is located in a quiet residential area near the East River, accessible by public transport or on foot.
Students in the lower grades learn coding from first grade and carry out field observations in Central Park. The building has a rooftop garden where children study urban ecology and grow their own plants.
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