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that is ranked one of the top high schools in the United States (by the Wall Street Journal). The school is a non-sectarian, co-educational pre-K–12 day school with programs in the arts, humanities, and sciences (its high school offers 200+ classes yearly). The students number 1,012 from preschool through 12th grade, as well as 324 faculty, administration, and staff members. The campus, located in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, includes a central 15-story building with a 19th-century facade housing the 4th through 12th grades; a lower school building for the first through third grades; two adjoining brownstones, one of which houses the school's fine arts department; and a preschool and kindergarten located near the main campus. Annual tuition as of 2022 is between $48,000 and $52,000 depending on grade level.

History

Saint Ann's School was founded in 1965 with 63 students and seven teachers in the basement of the St. Ann's Episcopal Church under the aegis of the vestry of the church and several interested parents. In 1966, the Church purchased the former Crescent Athletic Club House, a building designed by noted Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman, for the sum of $365,000, which has since served as the school's main building.Gray, Christopher
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'', August 13, 2000. Stanley Bosworth (1927–2011) became its first headmaster. In 1982, Saint Ann's School formally disaffiliated from the church, having been granted a charter from the Board of Regents of the State of New York. When Bosworth retired in 2004, Larry Weiss, formerly the head of the upper school at The Horace Mann School,

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scholar, and president at Friends World College, began his tenure as head of school at Saint Ann's. In September 2009, it was announced that Weiss would not return to Saint Ann's for the 2010–2011 academic year. In May 2010, Vincent J. Tompkins Jr., the Deputy Provost at

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, and formerly associate dean of academic affairs at

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, was named Weiss's successor. A graduate of Brown, he received his PhD from Harvard, and taught American history there before entering academic administration. He assumed leadership of Saint Ann's beginning with the 2010–2011 academic year.Hager, Emily B.
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'', May 19, 2010.

Academic program

The school allows its high school juniors and seniors to essentially design their own curriculum.

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courses are not offered at Saint Ann's. In a 2004 survey conducted by ''

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'', Saint Ann's was rated the number one high school in the country for having the highest percentage of graduating seniors enroll in

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and several other highly selective colleges.April 2, 2004 ''

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'', Cover Story (Personal Journal) In late 2007, ''The Wall Street Journal'' again listed Saint Ann's as one of the country's top 50 high schools for its success in preparing students to enter top American universities. In 2012, the ''

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'' ranked Saint Ann's as the number one high school in New York City.

Arts

The school's visual and performing arts program includes: *

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, &

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* Playwriting,

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, theater production, & costume design & construction *

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

* Mathematical Art *

Drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayo ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

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* Puppet construction * Modern dance, jazz dance, &

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* Mathematics of Music,

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, Brass Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Consort, Chorus,

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, jazz band, Bach Ensemble, music theory, modern music, Jazz Techniques,

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, Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Music Theory and Composition, Music and Computers, The Broadway Musical, Jazz History, Opera, and an African balafon ensemble in the Lower School *

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Sciences and Mathematics

The expansive sciences and math offerings at Saint Ann's include: Computer Science: * Computer Science Programming * Graphics Programming * Physical Computing * Algorithms for Bioinformatics * AI Machine Learning Math: * Advanced Statistics * Linear Algebra * Non-Euclidean Geometry * Formal Logic * Number Theory Science: * Advanced Physiology * Modern Genetics * Neuropsychology * Organic Chemistry * Oceanography and Meteorology * Astronomy * Introduction to Quantum Mechanics * Independent Science Research

Languages

Saint Ann's offers courses in: *

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* Japanese * Spanish *

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Seminar

Unique seminar classes are offered every year, with past subjects including The Art of Debate and Rhetoric, Mock Trial, The Math Behind Finance, Philosophical Ethics, Radicalism and Dissent in America, Advanced Architecture & Design.

Divisions and demographics

The school is organized into four divisions: preschool, lower, middle and high school. The vast majority of the students are from Brooklyn and Manhattan, although other boroughs are represented. Approximately 22 percent of the student body receive some level of scholarship aid (8.5 percent receive tuition remission; 13.5 percent receive financial aid). Approximately 33 percent of the student body are nonwhite.

Faculty and alumni

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The school maintains a list called The Growing Shelf, which documents all published community members.

Notable faculty

* Pearl Abraham (novelist) * Staceyann Chin (poet and LGBT activist) * Mark Denbeaux (lawyer) * Jonathan Elliott (composer) * Oskar Eustis (artistic director of

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) *

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(historian) * Melissa James Gibson (playwright) * Adam Gidwitz (author) * Laura Gilbert (Grammy Award-winning flutist) * Jonathan Hafetz (lawyer) * Cara Hoffman (writer) * Paul Lockhart (mathematician and author of ''

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'' and ''

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)'' * Willard Midgette (artist) * Anne Pierson Wiese (poet) * Leon Reid IV (artist) * Colette Rossant (author) * Greg Smith (artist) * Dave Schramm, (musician) * Tazewell Thompson (theater director)Midgette, Anne

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.'' "He’s also a committed and inspiring teacher, including an early stint at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn where, full disclosure, he directed me in the high school musical." * Heather A. Williams (historian)

Notable alumni

*Actors ** Jon Abrahams ** Eva Amurri ** Jennifer Connelly **

Paz de la Huerta María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta y Bruce (; born September 3, 1984), known professionally as Paz de la Huerta, is an American actress and model. She had roles in the films ''The Cider House Rules'' (1999) and ''A Walk to Re ...

Levy, Ariel
"The Devil & Saint Ann's"
'' New York.'' "And certainly, many a bright-eyed youth has passed through the halls of Saint Ann’s and come out the other end an artiste of one sort or another (Zac Posen, Jennifer Connelly, Paz de la Huerta, et al.)" **

Caitlin Dulany Caitlin Dulany is an American actress and activist. Early life She was born in Iowa City, Iowa on June 22, 1963. Once her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, she attended St. Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, where her mother, Barry Dulany, wa ...

** Cyrus Dunham ** Lena DunhamCarr, David
"Young Filmmaker’s Search for Her Worth Is Rewarded"
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.'' "Ms. Dunham grew up in SoHo, went to St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn and graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in creative writing in 2008." **

Alexis Dziena Alexis Gabrielle Dziena (born July 8, 1984) is an American actress. Early life Dziena was born in New York City and is of Irish, Italian and Polish descent. She attended the private Saint Ann's School alongside her '' Bringing Rain'' (2003) c ...

India Ennenga India Ennenga (born November 16, 1994) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Sofia Bernette in the HBO series '' Treme'', Camille Winship in the A&E drama '' The Returned'' and the voice of the titlular character in the Nick Jr. ...

** Michael Esper ** Josh Hamilton **

Fred Hechinger Fred Hechinger (born ) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Trevor in the coming-of-age film ''Eighth Grade'', John Calley in the Western drama ''News of the World'', and Ethan Russell in the psychological thriller '' The Woman in ...

** Lucas Hedges ** Michelle Hurd ** Monica Keena ** Jemima Kirke **

Lola Kirke Lola Clementine Kirke (born 27 September 1990) is a British-American actress and singer-songwriter. She starred in the 2015 film ''Mistress America'' and the Amazon Studios television series ''Mozart in the Jungle.'' She appeared in '' Gone Girl ...

** Stephen Mailer **

Griffin Newman Griffin Newman (born February 19, 1989) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for starring as Arthur Everest in the Amazon Studios television series ''The Tick'', as the voice of Orko in the Netflix animated series '' Masters of the Un ...

** Mia Sara ** Eric Stuart **

Maya Hawke Maya Ray Thurman Hawke (born July 8, 1998) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. The daughter of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, she began her career in modeling. She made her screen debut as Jo March in the 2017 BBC adaptation of '' ...

*Filmmakers and screenwriters **

Akiva Goldsman Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes '' The Client''; '' Batman Forever'' and its sequel '' ...

(screenwriter) ** Ry Russo-Young (director) ** Lena Dunham ** Jonás Cuarón (screenwriter) ** Dan Goor (screenwriter) ** Immy Humes (documentary filmmaker) ** Garret Linn (filmmaker) ** Sarah-Violet Bliss (filmmaker) *Musicians and writers ** Michael Diamond ** Stefan Zeniuk (musician) ** Barbara Brousal (musician) **

Vera Sola Danielle Aykroyd (born November 18, 1989), known professionally as Vera Sola, is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist. She studied poetry under Jorie Graham at Harvard University. She performed, pro ...

(musician, singer-songwriter, poet) ** Dan Coleman (composer) ** Simone Dinnerstein (pianist) ** Tomás Doncker (guitarist) ** Erika Nickrenz (pianist) **

Jeff Yang Jeff Yang () (born ) is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the ''Tao Jones'' column for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the ''San Francisco Chronicle' ...

(author, journalist) ** Anna Ziegler (playwright) ** Meghan O'Rourke (poet) ** Anne Midgette (journalist) ** Sasha Frere-Jones (writer/music critic) ** Jaida Jones (fantasy author) ** Thomas Beller (author and editor) ** Rebecca Pronsky (singer-songwriter) **

Zoë Jenny Zoë Jenny (born 1974 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. Her first novel, '' The Pollen Room'', was published in German in 1997 and has been translated into 27 languages. She lived in London. In 2008, she married Matthew Homfray, a British ...

(writer) ** Emma Straub (writer) ** John Pomfret (journalist) ** Ivy Pochoda (novelist) **Victoria Kann, author of the Pinkalicious book series ** Joanna Fuhrman (poet) **

Alissa Quart Alissa Quart (born 1972) is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet. Her nonfiction books are ''Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels'' (2013), ''Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Chi ...

(poet) ** Ann Herendeen (writer) ** Lynn Nottage (playwright) ** Sam Sifton (journalist) ** Samantha Gillison (writer) ** Eliza Callahan (singer) ** Lucy Wainwright Roche (singer-songwriter) ** Dan Brenner (musician) *Other notables ** Zac Posen (fashion designer) ** Katherine Healy (figure skater/ballerina) ** Meredith Rainey (athlete), ** Adam Bosworth (technology engineer) ** Willa Shalit (entrepreneur) ** Vito Schnabel (art curator)"Vito Schnabel on His Days as a 16-Year-Old Curator..."
February 2013, Lauren Cristensen, VF Culture ** Benjamin B. Wagner (attorney) **

Daniel Weinreb Daniel L. Weinreb (January 6, 1959 – September 7, 2012) was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the environment of the programming language Lisp. Early life Weinreb was born on January 6, 1959, in Brookly ...

(computer scientist) ** Christopher Bouton (technologist) ** Jean-Michel Basquiat (artist) ** Risa L. Goluboff (law professor) ** Derrick Niederman (mathematician and author) **

Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program. Among his ...

(type designer) **

Chitra Ganesh Chitra Ganesh (born 1975) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Ganesh's work across media includes: charcoal drawings, digital collages, films, web projects, photographs, and wall murals. Ganesh draws from mythology, literature, and pop ...

(artist) ** Kate Shepherd (artist) ** Justine Cassell (professor) ** Christian Martin (television executive) ** Bernadette Meyler ( Stanford Law School professor) ** Heather A. Williams (historian)

References

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