Coal Hill School
Coal Hill School is a fictional school in the television series Doctor Who, on Coal Hill Road in the Shoreditch area of London.
"An Unearthly Child"
The Coal Hill School is the setting of the very first episode of the series, "An Unearthly Child", first broadcast in November 1963. The episode takes place in the same year. In the episode, two teachers at the school, science teacher Ian Chesterton and history teacher Barbara Wright, discover that one of their students, Susan Foreman, is a time traveller who has been attending the school as her grandfather, the First Doctor (the central character of the series), makes repairs on their time machine, the TARDIS. The school was a constructed set shot inside Studio D at Lime Grove Studios.
Writer Kim Newman interprets Coal Hill School as a secondary modern school, which he notes is unusual for British children's television in the early 1960s; educational settings in children's television of the time were more commonly "fantasy fee-paying schools" like Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School. However, Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles interpret the lack of uniforms at Coal Hill as an indication that it is an early comprehensive school.
The Hill School
The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school for boys and girls located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The Hill is part of an organization known as the Ten Schools Admissions Organization (TSAO). This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions. Member schools include The Hill School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield Academy, The Lawrenceville School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, St. Paul's School, Loomis Chaffee, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Phillips Academy Andover. The Hill is also accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
As of July 2015, The Hill's endowment was approximately $155 million.
History
The Hill School was founded in 1851 by the Rev. Matthew Meigs as the Family Boarding School for Boys and Young Men. The School opened on May 1, 1851, enrolling 25 boys for the first year. The Family Boarding School was the first of its kind in America. According to Paul Chancellor’s The History of The Hill School: 1851-1976, “He [Meigs] wanted to stress that he was not founding still another academy, but a type of school quite new and rare in America. There is a tendency to think that the boys’ boarding school as we know it existed as long as there have been private schools. It has not. Most of the 12 to 15 schools generally considered the “core” group were established in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of this whole group of schools, The Hill was the first to be founded as a family boarding school, i.e., a school where the students lived on campus, as opposed to boarding with families in the town. Upholding The Family Boarding School tradition are the approximately 30 percent of today's Hill students who have a legacy connection. Today's student body includes young women who were first admitted to The Hill in 1998.
Hill School (South Dartmouth, Massachusetts)
The Hill School is a historic school building (now a private residence) at 4 Middle Street in the Padanaram village of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The two-story wood frame structure was built c. 1806, and was established by the area's early settlers as a cooperative venture. It has a "3/4" facade, with three asymmetrically-placed windows on each floor, and an off-center entry between two of them, with no window above. The building was moved about 450 feet (140 m) in 1912 to its present location.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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Hill School (Virginia)
Coordinates: 38°57′55″N 77°44′06″W / 38.9654°N 77.7349°W / 38.9654; -77.7349
The Hill School (founded 1926) is a private school for kindergarten through grade eight located in Middleburg, Virginia.
Facilities
The school's 137-acre (0.55 km2) campus includes three classroom buildings, an administrative building and library, a performing arts center, an art building, a music/lunchroom building, a natural sciences center, and an athletic center. Also on campus are a jogging trail, orchard, arboretum, five athletic fields, and several natural features including ponds, streams, and wetlands. The school's facilities serve as a community resource; many programs and teaching symposia are open to the public, and the theatre is open to community participation.
Faculty and Staff
The faculty has experience that ranges from 1 to 38 years and on average is about 14 years. The student to teacher ratio is 7:1. Kindergarten through third grade classrooms have two full-time homeroom teachers.
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