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Emma Willard is an independent college-preparatory day and boarding school enrolling students in grades 9–12 and post-graduate studies. Class sizes are kept at a 16-student maximum; the typical student to teacher ratio is 6 to 1. 83% of the faculty hold advanced degrees. [4]
Emma Willard (née Hart; February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
The school was a precursor to the Emma Willard School, an all girl, private boarding and university preparatory day school opened by Willard in 1821 in Troy, New York. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2] [3] It now houses the Middlebury College Admissions Office.
Willard School may refer to: Emma Willard School, a day and boarding school for young women in Troy, New York; Frances E. Willard School, an elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Willard Elementary School, Natrona County, Wyoming; Willard Residential College, part of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
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In 1927, the New York State Board of Regents granted a separate charter for Russell Sage College and reaffirmed the status of Emma Willard as a secondary school. During World War II , an "emergency men's division" was created, and in 1942 the first graduate degree was conferred.
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In February 1911, Kellas took the position of headmistress at Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, at the recommendation of Agnes Irwin, the recently retired Dean of Radcliffe College. Emma Willard had just moved to a new campus, the gift of Margaret Olivia Sage. The school's standards and reputation had veered from its founder's original ...