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immigrant. In 2019, it enrolled 330 students.

Admissions

Campus

Perkiomen School's campus covers and is located in

, a small suburb within the

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and the

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area.

Carnegie Library of The Perkiomen School

2017 Montgomery Award Recipient- Perkiomen School - Pennsburg Borough

The campus features six dormitories, a dining hall, a health center, and faculty housing. Athletic facilities include an athletic center with a swimming pool, two gymnasiums, weight, and wrestling rooms, a weight room, a wrestling room, eight tennis courts, multiple athletic fields, an indoor batting cage, and an outdoor batting cage. The campus includes six academic buildings. The original "old main" school building, Kriebel Hall, was renovated in 1995 after being extensively damaged in a fire. In 2007, Perkiomen opened The Robert M. Schumo Academic Center, which includes science and computer laboratories, a conference room, and new classrooms.

Motto

The school's motto is ''Solvitur vivendo'', "it is solved by living". Alternative translations include "

experience is the best teacher ''Ut est rerum omnium magister usus'' (roughly "experience is the teacher of all things" or more generally "experience is the best teacher") is a quote attributed to Julius Caesar in '' De Bello Civili'', the war commentaries of the Civil War. S ...

", "we learn through experience", or "the learning is in the doing".

References

External links

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Boarding School Review profile
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