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The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school for students in ninth through twelfth grades. The school is located on in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, located north of Trenton. Lawrenceville is a member of the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized in 2006. Lawrenceville is also a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, founded in 1966. There is a seven-school overlap of membership between the two groups.〔Taylor Smith, "History of the Association," ''The Phillipian'', February 14, 2008〕 Lawrenceville is additionally a member of the G20 Schools group. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.〔("Lawrenceville School" ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. accessed July 27, 2011.〕 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 817 students and 113.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.2:1.〔(School Data for Lawrenceville School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 4, 2015.〕 Students came from 34 states and 40 countries. As of June 2014, its endowment stood at $374 million.〔(), Lawrenceville School. Accessed February 14, 2014.〕 Lawrenceville received 2,368 formal applications for entrance in fall 2014, of which 237 were enrolled.〔("The Lawrenceville School Prospectus" ). Issuu. Accessed February 15, 2011.〕 In its 2015 rankings, ''Business Insider'' ranked the school's tuition as the second-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. In the five years that the publication has report its rankings, it was the first time that Lawrenceville was not the top-ranked school.〔Danner, Christi; and Stanger, Melissa. ("The 50 most expensive private high schools in America" ), ''Business Insider'', September 15, 2015. Accessed November 19, 2015. "For the first time, The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, was not the most expensive on our list, but instead was overtaken by another northeastern school: the Salisbury School in Connecticut."〕 ==History== One of the oldest preparatory schools in the United States, 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 Nations. It went by several subsequent names, including the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, the Lawrenceville Academy, and the Lawrenceville Classical Academy, before the school's current name, "The Lawrenceville School", was set during its refounding in 1883. An area of the campus built then, including numerous buildings, has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark District, known as Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark.〔("Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark" ), National Park Service. Accessed July 27, 2011.〕 A newer portion of the campus, not intruding into that district, was built in the 1920s. In 1951, a group of educators from three of the premier prep schools in the United States (Lawrenceville, Phillips Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy) and three of the country's most prestigious colleges (Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University) convened to examine the best use of the final two years of high school and the first two years of college. This committee published a final report, ''General Education in School and College'', through Harvard University Press in 1952, which subsequently led to the establishment of the Advanced Placement program. Lawrenceville was featured in a number of novels by Owen Johnson, class of 1895, notably ''The Prodigious Hickey'', ''The Tennessee Shad'', and ''The Varmint'' (1910). ''The Varmint'', which recounts the school years of the fictional character Dink Stover, was made into the 1950 motion picture ''The Happy Years'' starring Leo G. Carroll and Dean Stockwell and was filmed on the Lawrenceville campus. A 1986 PBS miniseries was based on his Lawrenceville tales.〔Johnson, Malcolm. ("Regaining The Spirit Of Prep School Stories" ), ''Hartford Courant'', November 15, 2001. Accessed May 10, 2015. "The quintessential manifestations of these books for boys, still available and filmed for PBS in 1992, are Owen Johnson's ''The Lawrenceville Stories,'' which unfolded in a real prep school and centered on the fictional 'Dink' Stover, who metamorphosed into a hero and a member of Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society of the presidents Bush."〕 In 1959, Fidel Castro spoke at the school in the Edith Memorial Chapel.〔Fursenko, A. A.; and Naftali, Timothy J. (''One hell of a gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964'' ), p. 10. W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. ISBN 0-393-31790-0. Accessed July 27. 2011.〕 Other speakers have included boxer Muhammad Ali, former president of Honduras and alumnus Ricardo Maduro, first female President of Ireland Mary Robinson, playwright Edward Albee, legal scholar Derrick Bell, poet Billy Collins, playwright Christopher Durang, historians Niall Ferguson and David Hackett Fischer, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, poet Seamus Heaney, political analyst Arianna Huffington, novelist Chang-rae Lee, photographer Andres Serrano, poet Mark Strand, writer Andrew Sullivan, politician Lowell Weicker, ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, philosopher Cornel West, physicist Brian Greene, actor Chevy Chase, TV show host Jon Stewart, singer Jimmy Buffett, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus and Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Jacobs. Among Lawrenceville's prominent teachers over the years have been Thornton Wilder, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, who taught French at the School in the 1920s; R. Inslee Clark, Jr., who revolutionized Ivy League admissions at Yale in the 1960s; and Thomas H. Johnson, a widely published authority on Emily Dickinson and the modern discoverer of the now celebrated Colonial poet Edward Taylor, whose previously unpublished works he salvaged from oblivion in 1937.〔''The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor'', Rockland Editions, New York, 1939.〕 Faculty members have gone on to head institutions such as the Horace Mann School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Groton School, Pacific Ridge School, Milton Academy, Westminster School, the Peddie School, Riverdale Country School, the Hill School, Governor Dummer Academy, and the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria. Lawrenceville was all-male for much of its nearly 200-year history, 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.〔Quinn, Laura. ("When Prep School Goes Coed Following the Lead of Many Other Private Schools, Lawrenceville Finally Broke with Tradition to Admit Girls" ), ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', March 20, 1988. Accessed July 3, 2014. "But, after resisting the pressures that caused dozens of other private schools to go coeducational in the 1970s, Lawrenceville's trustees opened the gates to girls several months ago. Now 178 of the 725 students are female."〕 In 1999, the student body elected a female president, Alexandra Petrone; in 2003, Elizabeth Duffy was appointed the School's first female head master; and in 2005, Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Lawrenceville Class of 2002 and Brown University Class of 2006, became Lawrenceville's first alumna to win a Rhodes Scholarship. The school's weekly, student-run newspaper, ''The Lawrence'', is the third oldest secondary school newspaper in the United States, after the ''Phillippian'' and ''The Exonian'', Phillips Exeter Academy's and Phillips Academy Andover's weeklies, respectively. The Lawrence has been published regularly since 1881. Students comprise the editorial board and make all decisions for the paper, consulting with two faculty advisors at their own discretion. Other student run publications include The First Amendment, a monthly political magazine founded in 2010, LMAG a semesterly fashion magazine, and the Lit, an award winning literary magazine published three times a year. The Lit was founded in 1895 by author Owen Johnson, who went on to write the ''Lawrenceville Stories''. Also published annually are the Olla Pod, the yearbook, Lawrencium, the science research journal, and Prize Papers, a compilation of the best academic work in the English Department by that year's IVth Form class. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrenceville School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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