Nightingale-Bamford School

The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford.[2] Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side,[3] Nightingale-Bamford is a member of the New York Interschool consortium.

"Miss Nightingale's School" redirects here. For the nursing school set up by Florence Nightingale, see Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery.
The Nightingale-Bamford School
(2019)
Address
20 East 92nd Street NY, NY

New York City
,
NY

U.S.
Coordinates40°47′05″N 73°57′24″W
Information
TypePrivate, Girls
Established1920
FounderFrances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford
Faculty92 (65 of which are full-time) [1]
GradesK-12
Enrollment560
Color(s)Silver and Blue
MascotNighthawks
NewspaperThe Spectator
WebsiteNightingale.org

Overview

Nightingale's Lower School includes grades K-4. Middle School includes grades 5-8, and Upper School includes grades 9-12. Nightingale holds a small size of 560 students, approximately 45 pupils per grade level. The student-faculty ratio is 7:1 and the average class size is that of 10 students for academic and up to 13 for PE and the like.[4]

History

Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford founded the school in 1920. NBS was originally named Miss Nightingale's School; officially becoming "The Nightingale-Bamford School" in 1929. Since 1920, NBS has graduated nearly 3,000 alumnae.[5] As of 2008, the School endowment is at $74.9 million.[6]

Faculty

Paul Burke has been head of school since July 2012. He succeeded Dorothy Hutcheson, who was head of Nightingale for the prior 20 years.[7]

Academics

Nightingale features a traditional, rigorous curriculum. Like its contemporaries, the school has a preponderance of required courses until upper school, when electives are increasingly offered.

Students have excelled in a variety of these electives as well as many extracurricular activities. For example, in April 2013, a team of five upper school students won first place at Technovation Challenge, the world's largest tech competition for girls. The $10,000 prize was used to develop and market their winning app.[8] The next year, a Nightingale team won first place in the middle school division of the 2014 Technovation Challenge and also sent their upper school team to the finals hosted by Intel. In addition, Nightingale has a debate program, which won second place at States in 2016.

Admissions

Nightingale's admissions process has received some media attention in the past few years.[9]

Financial aid

As of the 2008-2009 school year, 32% of the NBS student body received financial assistance with $2.8 million in grants being awarded.[6]

Rankings

Nightingale is typically ranked among the best all-girls private schools in the United States, and, like many private schools in Manhattan, is ranked as one of the most expensive. [10]

Diversity

Nightingale-Bamford has a diverse community for an independent school with over 30% of the student body being students of color.[4] The school has a program called Cultural Awareness for Everyone, or informally CAFE. CAFE touches on the basis of not only race, but also class, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and age.[11] To keep diversity at the school a priority, Nightingale recruits actively from an inner-city program called Prep for Prep. Prep for Prep is a leadership development program that offers promising students of color access to a private school education based in New York City.[12]

Partner schools

Nightingale-Bamford has no official partner or brother school. However, the school has activities with St. David's and Allen-Stevenson (both boys schools) and is a member of Interschool, which organizes programs and activities for eight New York City independent schools: Trinity, Dalton, Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin, Spence, Nightingale-Bamford, and Browning.[13]

Notable alumnae

In pop culture
  • Nightingale-Bamford received mention in the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You.
  • In the Gossip Girl book series by NBS alumna Cecily von Ziegesar '88, the character's elite all-girls school Constance Billard School for Girls, is based upon Nightingale-Bamford and the lives of the girls who attend the School. "[Constance Billard] is completely based on Nightingale," von Ziegesar told ABC News. "But I exaggerated to make it more entertaining."[19]
  • Nightingale-Bamford is mentioned in the book How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff.
  • Mentioned briefly in Bunheads by Sophie Flack
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References
  1. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  2. "History". About Nightingale. Nightingale-Bamford School. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  3. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  4. "Admissions FAQ". Admissions. Nightingale-Bamford School. 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  5. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  6. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  7. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  8. Contributors, Insights (2013-05-10). "Meet the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs". Wired.
  9. Hymowitz, Kay S. (2001). "Survivor: The Manhattan Kindergarten". City Journal. The Manhattan Institute. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  11. "Home - The Nightingale-Bamford School". Nightingale.org. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  12. "Prep for Prep". https://www.prepforprep.org/. External link in |website= (help)
  13. http://www.facultydiversitysearch.org/
  14. Archived June 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  15. Bumiller, Elisabeth (1999-07-20). "PUBLIC LIVES; A Top Adviser to a Much-Advised First Lady". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  16. "ABOUT SHOSHANNA".
  17. "A Touch of Magic: American Prodigy Beatriz Stix-Brunell Comes Into Her Own at The Royal Ballet". Pointe Magazine. 24 September 2012.
  18. "Sarah Thompson". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
  19. "'Gossip Girl' Triumphs Over 'O.C.,' Say New York Preppies - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
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