Pingry School

The Pingry School is a coeducational, independent, college preparatory country day school in New Jersey, with a Lower School (K-5) campus in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, and a Middle (6-8) and Upper School (9-12) campus in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township. The school was founded in 1861 by John F. Pingry.[6] The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1998 and is considered one of the most prestigious in the state and country.[7]

This article is about the K-12 school in New Jersey. For the secondary school in Massachusetts, see Pingree School.

The Pingry School
Location
Basking Ridge and Short Hills
,
NJ

United States
Coordinates40°37′11.9″N 74°34′02″W
Information
TypePrivate Day school
MottoMaxima reverentia pueris debetur.
The greatest respect is due students.
Established1861
HeadmasterMatt Levinson
Faculty177 (on FTE basis)[1]
Enrollment1,027 (as of 2009-10)[1]
Average class size16 students in Lower School, 14 in Middle School, 13 in Upper School[2]
Student to teacher ratio5.8:1[1]
Campus240 acres (97 ha)
Color(s)Blue and
White[3]
Athletics20 varsity sports
Athletics conferenceSkyland Conference
MascotBig Blue (bear)
Team nameBig Blue[3]
Endowment$86.9 million[4]
Budget$46,084,899[4]
Tuition$39,523 (2017–18 for 9-12)[5]
Websitepingry.org

The school has an endowment of $86.9 million.[4]

Pingry's 177 full-time faculty have 13 doctorates and half have master's degrees, with an average tenure at Pingry of 13 years.[8] A total of 73% of faculty have advanced degrees.

The school has a student-initiated Honor Code, which dates back to 1925. Violation of the Honor Code are judged by the student-run Honor Board.

Pingry requires its students to complete ten hours of community service each school year.

Niche ranks Pingry 2nd on their list of 2020 Best Schools in New Jersey and 2020 Best Private High Schools in New Jersey.[9]

Student body

The school currently enrolls 1,129 students; 288 at Short Hills and 841 at Basking Ridge; 270 in the Middle School and 571 in the Upper School.[10] Students come from 100 area communities in twelve counties and over 90 municipalities in New Jersey.[11]

As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,129 students and 118.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.1:1. At the Lower School, every class is strictly 16 students.[1]

History

Pingry was founded by Reverend John Francis Pingry, a Presbyterian minister, in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1861 to provide both scholastic training and moral education for boys. The outbreak of the American Civil War that year caused enrollment to dry up at the Pingry Select School for Boys, an academy John Pingry had founded in 1854 in Roseville. After learning that Elizabeth's only professional educator had decided to enlist in the Union Army, John Pingry moved to Elizabeth where he founded the Pingry School.[12] Although Pingry gave talks on Proverbs and used the Bible for instructional purposes, the school has never been affiliated with any church or denomination.

The School moved from the Elizabeth schoolhouse to the famous Parker Road Campus in 1893. After Pingry retired in 1893, several headmasters with relatively short tenures held his position.

In 1917, C. Mitchell Froelicher became headmaster, but he was pushed out in 1920 because of his German-sounding name and the anti-German sentiment surrounding World War I. Charles Bertram Newton became the headmaster of the school, and his tenure lasted until 1936. Newton became famous for championing the Country Day School philosophy, and Pingry became a much more modern school under his tenure.

In 1925, the Honor Code was written. It was revised in 1988.

From 1936 to 1961, E. Laurence Springer was headmaster, and his tenure was the longest in Pingry's history. He oversaw the move to Pingry's Hillside Campus. The School moved to the edge of Hillside, New Jersey in 1953.

Early in the 1970s, two important changes occurred: Pingry began the transition to a coeducational school. The first female students, who graduated in 1976, were succeeded by other young women who today represent half the student body.

Secondly, Pingry grew again by merging with the Short Hills Country Day School to become a school with grades from Kindergarten through grade 12. Today over 250 children attend the Pingry Short Hills Campus. In this period of about twenty years, David C. Wilson and H. Wescott Cunningham each served as headmaster.

In 1983, the school moved to Martinsville, a rural area in the Watchung and Somerset Hills. The campuses are approximately 25 minutes apart, and both are located near the New York metropolitan area, which continues to provide many outside resources to supplement the classroom.[13] The old campus in Hillside is now used as a campus of Kean University. In 2013, the Martinsville location was renamed to "Basking Ridge" in an effort to make it easier to locate the campus using automated mapping tools.[14]

In 1987, John Hanly became Headmaster. He served until 2000, and was well-liked and remembered by members of the community. Today, the Hanly Lecture on Ethics and Morality holds his name.

John Neiswender became Headmaster after Hanly, and served until 2005.

Nathaniel Conard was Headmaster from July 2005 to mid-2019.

In late 2018, The School announced that Matt Levinson, of University Prep in Seattle, would be Head of School after Conard retired in mid-2019.

Since Pingry's day, there have been 16 headmasters. Currently, Matt Levinson holds the post, his appointment effective mid-2019.

Pingry's motto is Maxima reverentia pueris debetur, a Latin phrase literally meaning "the greatest respect is owed to the boys." Since becoming co-educational, the school has modified the motto's translation to "the greatest respect is due to the students." Dr. John Pingry's personal motto, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7), hangs as a sign in the C.B. Newton Library located at the Basking Ridge Campus.

In April 2020, the school received an unspecified amount in federally backed small business loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The school received scrutiny over this loan, which meant to protect small and private businesses. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted that the schools should return the money, but the Matt Levinson stated they were keeping it, despite having an $80+ million endowment.[15][16]

The Honor Code

Pingry's Honor Code is as follows:

Pingry believes that students should understand and live by standards of honorable behavior, which are essentially a matter of attitude and spirit rather than a system of rules and regulations. Decent, self-respecting behavior must be based on personal integrity and genuine concern for others and on the ethical principles which are the basis of civilized society.

The members of the Pingry community should conduct themselves in a trustworthy manner that will further the best interests of the school, their class, and any teams or clubs to which they belong. They should act as responsible members of the community, working for the common good rather than solely for personal advantage. They should honor the rights of others, conducting themselves at all times in a moral and decent manner while at Pingry and throughout their lives as citizens of and contributors to the larger community of the world.

Violations are judged by the student-run Honor Board. The Honor Code is included on every assignment and assessment, and is followed with strict standards. All students sign the Honor Code at Convocation every year, and are expected to continue to follow the Code upon leaving Pingry.

Academics

Pingry students can take multivariable calculus, calculus based statistics, number theory, and discrete mathematics in the math department. English courses are taught entirely with discussion- and project-based methods. The School attracts faculty from various industries, including finance, computer science, and engineering. There are twenty faculty who have been at the school for 25 years or more. The vast majority of faculty have PhDs, EdDs, Masters degrees, or MBAs from schools such as UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Pingry has a 1:1 laptop policy

Pingry's math team has performed very well at the lower and middle school levels. The lower school team got second place at the national mathleague.org competition. The middle school team also got fourth place in the state Mathcount competition. Currently, there is not a high-school math team yet as of late 2019.

Students at Pingry have done very well at the AMC competition series. The school had 3 AIME qualifiers in 2018, with one being a 7th grader.

Extracurricular activities
  • Independent Research Team: Selective club of groups working on novel research projects from genetics to microbiology to artificial intelligence, using the school's state of the art labs and technological resources
  • QuizBowl: Pingry's Academic team has won and placed at many tournaments, including the National Academic Championship and QUnlimited's QuizNet. They have also emerged victorious at local tournaments.
  • Speech and Debate Team
  • Orchestra / Band: All ensembles at Pingry are instructed by professional musicians
  • Student Government

Athletics

The Pingry School Big Blue[3] competes in high school interscholastic sports independent of any athletic conference, under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

The school offers 33 varsity teams, with a total of over 70 teams covering seventh to 12th grade. Many of the school's athletes have been recognized as athletic scholars, and many have gone on to play for college teams. In addition, the school's facilities include two full-court gymnasiums, a 25-meter indoor pool, a state of the art weight and aerobics room with full-time trainers, athletic training room with full-time staff, full locker rooms for women, men and visiting teams, The Miller Bugliari '52 World Cup Field (which has hosted World Cup practices for the '95 Italian National team, the '02 United States National team, and the '13 Ecuadorian National Team) for soccer and baseball, Parsons Field ( which offers stadium seating, a press-box and a scoreboard with a sound system) for football, lacrosse and track and field events, 212 acres (0.86 km2) total that allow for a cross-country course, 12 tennis courts, and numerous practice fields including the John Taylor Babbitt '07 Memorial Field. The Miller A. Bugliari Athletic Complex was opened in 2017 and features 8 squash courts, 2 basketball gyms, and a weight room.[17]

Pingry competes in the Skyland Conference which is composed of eighteen public and parochial high schools covering Essex County, Morris County and Somerset County in west central New Jersey, under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[18] Pingry is also a member of the New Jersey Independent School Athletic Association. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had previously participated in the Colonial Hills Conference which included public and parochial high schools covering Essex County, Morris County and Somerset County in west Central Jersey.[19]

Pingry's soccer program is renowned for its consistency and ability to attract top players, partly due to alumnus Coach Miller Bugliari's reputation and current standing as the second-winningest boys' soccer coach in the nation. In 2007 the Men's team climbed to fifth nationally. The 2006 team won the Parochial A State title by beating Christian Brothers Academy, as well as Don Bosco Prep, Delbarton, and Seton Hall Prep along the way. These four teams accounted for each of the previous four years' playoff losses. The girls' soccer team won the 2001 Parochial North A state sectional championship with a 1–0 win vs. Immaculate Heart Academy.[20]

Ted Li has been Pingry's head fencing coach since 1975. Li has held many key positions that have allowed him to guide the development of the sport, serving as armourer for multiple United States Fencing Association international teams and NCAA National Championships. Mr. Li was also Chef de Contrôle and technical advisor for three Olympic Games (Los Angeles 1984, Atlanta 1996, and Sydney 2000) and for multiple World Championships in addition to holding the British Fencing Association's "Master Armourer" certification. Three Pingry fencers were selected in 2000 as Star-Ledger Fencers of the Century. Numerous Pingry fencers have earned district and state championship honors and Pingry teams have won many District titles. Pingry fencing captured the New Jersey state championship in 1989. Pingry fencing has produced at least two Olympians, Lee Shelley and Dan Kellner.

In 2006, the boys' lacrosse team won the Somerset County Championship, the school's third title in four years, by defeating Ridge High School. The team compiled a 17–3 record (best in school history), winning the Waterman Conference title as well as the Non-Public B state title against Morristown-Beard School by a score of 6–5.[21] In the Tournament of Champions, they avenged their regular season overtime loss to Hunterdon Central Regional High School by a score of 8–6, but lost to Mountain Lakes High School in the semi-finals. Mountain Lakes went on to lose to the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, Delbarton School, who accounted for Pingry's season-opening loss. Following the tournament, Pingry was ranked No. 4 overall by The Star-Ledger, head coach Mike Webster was named Coach of the Year by the same periodical, four members were named to the All-State team and eight members were named to the All-Conference team.

The 2003 field hockey team won the Group I state championship with a 2–1 win over New Egypt High School in the tournament's final match.[22] The 2004 team repeated as Group I champion, defeating New Egypt High School in the tournament final.[23] In the 2005 and 2006 school years, the Pingry school Men's Cross Country team won the Conference Championship as well as the Non-Public B state championship. Pingry Girls' Ski Team won the state championships in 2007 and in 2008 after taking second in 2006. Also, both Boys' and Girls' Track and Field won the state championships in 2007. In 2011, the girls' lacrosse team beat Haddonfield by 3 goals (16-13) to take the NJSIAA Group 1 South Jersey state title. They went on to lose by one to Glen Ridge in the NJSIAA Group 1 State Final (8-7).

Pingry's boys' swimming team has won ten consecutive NJSIAA Non-Public B state championships in a streak spanning from 2008 to 2017.[24] Pingry also won three state titles from 1995 to 1997. In addition, the team has also won six NJISAA Prep A titles (2010–2013, 2016–17) and won the Somerset Country championships in 2010, 2012, and 2017. The perennially successful swimming program has also produced many successful collegiate swimmers, including FINA World Aquatics Championships swimmer and three-time Southeastern Conference 100 m breaststroke champion Nic Fink.

The Pingry Middle School squash team won the 2013 Middle School Nationals, after reaching their previous best of sixth place overall in 2012. Pingry won their first two rounds by scores of 5–0 vs. Bala Cynwyd / Welsh Valley and Greenwich Country Day School. In the semi-finals, Pingry knocked off second-seeded The Haverford School A team by a score of 3–2. In the finals, the team played Brunswick School, the top-ranked middle school team in the country and defending champion. After winning the first two matches, the team held on to win the championship by a 3–2 margin.[25]

Facilities

Pingry added a middle school building to the Basking Ridge Campus. In early 2007, Forms I and II (grades 7 and 8) moved into the new building. Grade 6 was moved from the Short Hills campus to this new facility at the beginning of the 2007–2008 school year. The building's most notable feature is its specially designed large common area, which is used by the community as an assembly area and by the students as a place to gather informally. This new building shares the cafeteria, the library, the arts wing, the Student Technology and Publishing Center, and the athletic facilities with the upper school.

The Pingry School's Basking Ridge campus used to have a modern-looking turquoise and pink architecture. The turquoise bricks that used to compose the school's central clock tower were originally supposed to be navy blue, but by the time the incorrectly colored paint arrived it was too late to make a change. The main building was designed by the architecture firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. The building has now completed construction, which involved removing the tiles from the clock tower and replacing them with the type of stones used in the making of the new middle school building mentioned previously. This construction project also involved the repair of the roof.

There are places for refreshments and snacks in the main building. The cafeteria is open almost the entire day. The bookstore, re-located to the second level, also sells snack food. In addition, students can purchase items such as binders, pens, or even shirts, sweatshirts and other Pingry emblazoned apparel, if needed during the day. The Bookstore is open from 8:00 A.M. until 4:00 pm. There is a vending machine, which is always open, located next to the Student Technology and Publishing Center on the lower floor.

Sports facilities include the Bristol Gymnasium (competition space), the Hyde & Watson Gymnasium (general purpose), the Beinecke Pool (swimming), a fitness facility (weight room and cardio studio), a multi-sport turf field, tennis courts, an eight-lane track, a football field, a cross country running trail, two baseball diamonds, and numerous fields used for soccer, field hockey, and lacrosse. In January 2017, the Miller A. Bugliari '52 Athletics Center opened, with eight squash courts and the state of the art Greig Family memorial exercise weight and conditioning facility.

Student publications

Accreditation

The Pingry School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools,[7] the National Association of Independent Schools, the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools[26] and the New Jersey Department of Education. The Pingry School is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

Notable alumni

Pingry is known for its high number of alumni in high-level positions in the financial services and legal industries.

Sexual abuse scandal

Initial allegations

On March 29, 2016, The Pingry School sent a letter to "parents of current students, the entire alumni and school trustees" informing them that the School had "recently learned from a few of our alumni that students were sexually abused by Thad Alton, an employee of Short Hills Country Day School from 1972 to 1974 and, following the merger of the two institutions, an employee of The Pingry School from 1974 to 1978."[70] The letter stated that Pingry had hired a security firm to conduct an investigation on behalf of the school.[70] The letter was signed by Headmaster Nathaniel E. Conard and Jeffrey N. Edwards, chair of the board of trustees.[70]

At that time, Crew Janci LLP,[71] "a law firm that specializes in suing schools and youth organizations for their negligent handling of sexual abuse[,] announced it has been investigating Alton's tenure at Pingry for over a year."[72] Crew Janci LLP's investigation on behalf of the victims was "credited with persuading the 166-year-old [Pingry] school to launch its own investigation[.]"[73] Crew Janci's website made clear that its investigation on behalf of the victims would continue, despite the announcement of the Pingry School's commissioning of an investigation.[74]

On April 1, 2016, The Star-Ledger revealed court documents indicating that Alton had previously been convicted for his sexual abuse of Pingry students.[72] The spokesperson for the Pingry School was quoted as responding to this information by saying: "I'm afraid such a conviction is news to us" and that "[i]t wasn't until recently that the [Pingry] school's current administration knew anything about this situation in the '70s, which prompted us to act[.]"[72]

A news article published on April 8, 2016, detailed how Alton moved from Pingry School in 1978 to The Peck School, "10 miles away in Morristown."[75] The Peck School sent a letter to its alumni explaining "that Alton had nothing but 'positive job references' when he was hired, fresh from six years at the Short Hills Country Day School, which merged with Pingry."[76]

After leaving the Peck School in 1979, Alton continued on as an educator at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York until he was arrested in December 1989 in relation to his sexual abuse of more than 50 children.[77]

On April 27, 2016, The Star- Ledger ran a report of interviews with several of the victims.[78] Then, on April 28, "Pingry Survivors" – a group of individuals who were sexually abused as children while at Pingry— posted an open letter to the "Pingry Community."[79]

In their open letter, the Pingry Survivors stated their goals as follows: "(1) For the Pingry Community to learn the whole truth about the extent of the problem of child sexual abuse at the Pingry School – including a complete and accurate disclosure about the School's response at the time of the abuse (and since); (2) For The Pingry School to hear, understand, and acknowledge the suffering of each victim and to make meaningful amends; and, (3) For The Pingry School to dedicate itself to ensuring that this history can never be repeated (including an independent review of policies, practices, and culture, as well as implementation of meaningful changes)."[79] The Pingry Survivors went on to say that they "hope that we and the current Pingry School leadership – with the support of the greater Pingry Community – can find a path forward that is collaborative and allows for true healing and reconciliation."[79]

Outcome

During the year following Pingry's announcement of its investigation in March 2016, the school's child sexual abuse scandal was mentioned in multiple national media reports on private schools with pervasive sexual abuse in their pasts, including Vanity Fair[80] and The New York Times.[81]

On March 28, 2017, The Pingry School released a letter announcing that it had concluded its "independent investigation into the sexual abuse allegations and circumstances surrounding Thad Alton's tenure." The school posted a "Report to the Pingry Community" on a website other than its official page called "www.pingryresponse.org."[82] It is unclear whether the school received a more comprehensive investigative report. The "Report to the Pingry Community" substantiated 27 victims of child sexual abuse by Alton, as well as abuse by other former Pingry faculty and staff.[83]

The school announced that their investigator's report "affirms the abuse by former Pingry teacher and assistant Lower School principal Thad Alton.[84] Pingry's investigative report revealed that at least one "school board member learned of Alton's activities in 1979," but that the Pingry School "never shared the information with its faculty, alumni or the family of its students."[73]

The school acknowledged in its letter that "the culture, structure, and policies of the school... allowed such atrocities to occur in the past."[84] The school asserted:

"[W]e are deeply sorry for the pain the survivors have suffered, and are grateful to them for coming forward. In our commitment to ongoing efforts to fully understand and address these troubling events in Pingry's past, we will be engaging with survivors to learn how we can best support them. Our hope is to heal as a community and continue to foster the culture of safety and well-being that our students deserve. This healing requires our continued partnership, collaboration, and candor."[84]

In the days after the release of the Pingry School's report, victims of abuse at Pingry went to the media with their stories about the abuse and the impact it had on their lives.[85][86] In some of those media reports, the "Pingry Survivors" group asserted "their school knew what was going on" with the abuse at the time it was occurring.[73]

Alton has never been criminally prosecuted for his sexual abuse of most of the Pingry victims. He lives in Manhattan and is a registered sex offender in the State of New York.[87]

On December 4, 2017, an article appeared on the front page of The New York Times detailing Pingry's attempts to invoke to statute of limitations to avoid compensating former students who were victims of sexual abuse at the school.[88]

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