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The Frederick Gunn School is a private, coeducational, boarding and day prep school for students in grades 9–12 and postgraduate, located in rural Connecticut, United States. [3] The 220-acre (0.89 km 2 ) campus borders the village green of Washington , a small, historic town in Litchfield Hills .
Frederick William Gunn was born in Washington, Connecticut, on October 4, 1816. [8] The eighth and youngest son of a farmer and admired deputy sheriff, John Northrup (1772–1826), and his wife, Mary (Polly) Ford (1773–1827), Gunn was orphaned at age 10. His parents died "during the prevalence of an epidemic." [9]
Alumni of The Gunnery, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory boarding school in Washington, Connecticut of the New York metropolitan area. Pages in category "The Frederick Gunn School alumni"
Three other unit districts, in Atlanta, Danvers and Stanford, each had its own grade and high schools. [2] The new school district was approved by the voters by a ratio of 3-to-1 on November 12, 1966, and District 16 took over the school system on July 1, 1967. The voters then approved a bond issue of $4,000,000 in November 1967. [2]
In 1861, Frederick W. Gunn, the abolitionist founder of the Gunnery prep school, opened one of America's earliest summer camp's in Washington. [7] Slavery Safe Harbor. Washington was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Local residents provided a safe harbor for slaves fleeing captivity, and organized efforts to throw bounty hunters off the ...
Indian Creek Community Unit School District 425 is a unit school district in DeKalb County, Illinois and extending into Lee County, Illinois. As of 2016 [update] , it had 723 students. [ 2 ] It operates three public schools: Indian Creek Elementary in Shabbona for kindergarten through fourth grade; Indian Creek Middle School in Waterman for ...
The family are descendants of Thomas Wykeham, the great-nephew of William of Wykeham (c. 1320–1404) who left his fortune to his great-nephew. The inheritance included Broughton Castle which became the home of the Barons Saye and Sele, after Thomas Wykeham's granddaughter married William Fiennes, 2nd Baron Saye and Sele. [1]
It is composed of three schools: one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school, and altogether, as of the 2021–22 school year, accommodates 1,006 students. Students just entering the district first attend the Cumberland Elementary School, which serves them from kindergarten to grade four.