Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth Hall School is an all-girls private college preparatory school for grades 5-12 in Nashville, Tennessee. Known around the United States as one of the most prestigious all-girls schools, it serves to educate young women and foster these ideals: to Think Critically, Lead Confidently, and Live Honorably. Harpeth Hall is recognized even at the global scale for the scholarship and leadership embedded in the young women who graduate from this most intellectually challenging and stimulating college preparatory school.

Harpeth Hall has a collaborative partnership with the all-boys Montgomery Bell Academy located nearby. The two schools participate in joint drama productions and other co-curricular activities.

History

Ward-Belmont

Harpeth Hall’s history dates back to 1865 with the founding of Ward Seminary for Young Ladies. The school eventually merged with Belmont College for Young Women in 1913 and formed Ward-Belmont College.

In the spring of 1951, Ward-Belmont was forced to close when the board of directors transferred ownership of the school to the Tennessee Baptist Convention. A group of concerned citizens organized to see that a quality educational opportunity for girls continued locally. This group purchased the 26-acre (110,000 m²) Estes estate at the corner of Hobbs and Estes Roads. One of the founders suggested the name of the new school be Harpeth Hall, because an early settler in Middle Tennessee had given the name Harpeth to the sloping hills and little river valley to the south of the campus.

Hall School

Hall School may refer to:

The Hall School, Hampstead

The Hall School is an independent boys' preparatory school in Belsize Park, Hampstead, London, currently teaching boys from age 4 to age 13.

Description

The school, across its three buildings, has a roll of over 450 boys, approximately 50 in each Year from Years 1-8 and 32 in Reception.

Reception to Year 3 (ages 4-8) are based in the Junior School, Year 4 and 5 (ages 9-10) in the Middle School and Years 6 to 8 (ages 11-13) in the Senior School.

The school operates a house system of four houses: Blue, Green, Orange and Purple. These are used throughout the school for academic, physical and musical competitions.

The school is known for its pink uniform consisting for many years of a pink school blazer, cap and tie. Alumni will recognise the schoolboy terrorizing, recalled by food critic and old boy Giles Coren in his January 2010 article in The Times.

History

The school originated as Belsize School, founded in 1889 by the Revd Francis John Wrottesley, who with his wife had taken fee-paying pupils at their home in nearby 18 Buckland Crescent since 1881. The Wrottesleys sold their school in 1898 to the Revd D. H. Marshall, who took over an adjoining house in 1903, when there were 58 boys, including 10 boarders. In 1905 Marshall bought the Allen Olney girls' school, which his wife continued at Buckland Crescent.

Hall School (Hall, Indiana)

Hall School in Hall, Indiana was designed by Henry H. Dupont and built in 1911. It is located at 5955 West Hurt Road at Hall in Gregg Township. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is an example of the Craftsman architecture in the vernacular. The building has 2-floors with six classrooms and additions built in 1957 and 1971. The Morgan County Historic Preservation Society, an affiliate of Indiana Landmarks, nominated the school to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, a year before the building went vacant due to school consolidation.

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