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===Notable members of the class of 1760=== ===Notable members of the class of 1760===

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Germantown Academy
Name

Germantown Academy

Address

340 Morris Road

Town

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 19034-0287

Established

1759

Community

Suburban

Type

Private (Independent)

Religion

Nonsectarian

Students

Coeducational

Mascot

Patriots

Grades

Pre-Kindergarten to 12

Colors

Red, Black, and Royal Blue

Motto

"By persevering we shall see the fruits."

Website

Link

Germantown Academy is America's oldest nonsectarian day school, founded on December 6, 1759 (originally named the "Germantown Union School"). Germantown Academy (also referred to as "GA") is now a K-12 school in the Fort Washington suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., having moved from its original Germantown campus in 1965. In addition, the school shares the oldest continuous football rivalry with the William Penn Charter School, which celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2006. For the 2008-2009 school year 1,122 students are registered as matriculating (592 male students and 530 female students) with 250 faculty and staff employed by the institution. The Academy plans to go under a complete reconstruction during the 2010-2011 school year, the year after it's 250th anniversary.

Lower School

According to the GA website, the Lower School program strives for a school environment wherein children are respected as individuals, while also learning to be a part of a team. A progression of classroom expectations and curricular demands has been developed to address the varying needs of children who cover a broad span of ages and abilities - assuming the children come from wealthy families. While the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic are the principle work in all of the classrooms, teaching in the Lower School requires that children are active learners. Lower School faculty believe active participation leads to discovery and internalization, and individual creativity and expression is strongly encouraged. Opportunities for social interaction are of paramount importance in the classrooms. There are currently 376 students in the Lower School. The student to teacher ratio is currently 14 to 1 in the Lower School.

Middle School

The Alter Middle School was built in 1997 funded by the Alter Family. There are currently 261 students in the Middle School. The student to teacher ratio is currently 8 to 1 in the Middle School.

Upper School

The Upper School curriculum, according to the mission statement of the school, promotes curiosity, reasoning and questioning, imagination and aesthetics, understanding of others and oneself, clear communications, broad applications of knowledge, and satisfaction in learning. Students are required at minimum, five credits per year and at least four years of English, three years of Math, Science, History, and Language, and two years of Art. Generally speaking, GA classrooms are characterized by a significant degree of informality, and the school prides itself on the close relationship between the teachers and the students. There are currently 485 students in the Upper School. The student to teacher ratio is currently 8 to 1 in the Upper School.

Conduct in the upper school is governed by the Honor Code, a system where students agree to a set of rules, and where, in the case of an infraction, students are judged by an honor council consisting of teachers and peers.

GA/PC Day

Heres a map of the GA campus:

Campus Map

campus map
Found at http://www.germantownacademy.net/Library/InfoManage/Guide.asp?FolderID=3337


Tuition

These are the prices for the 2008-09 school year:

Pre-K (noon) $13,530 Pre-K (3 PM) $17,050 K (Noon) $13,600 Kindergarten $17,090 Grade 1 $18,360 Grade 2 $18,370 Grade 3 $18,420 Grade 4 $20,635 Grade 5 $20,895 Grade 6 $22,300 Grade 7 $22,300 Grade 8 $22,300 Grade 9 $24,280 Grade 10 $24,280 Grade 11 $24,280 Grade 12 $24,280
Financial Aid: $1,570,000 each year

Alma mater

Notable alumni

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Notable members of the class of 1760

Each year the Germantown Academy alumni society accepts nominations for and subsequently elects non-alumni into the honorary class of 1760. This class is named in commemoration of the founding of the academy. The honor is bestowed upon those who have had an outstanding contribution to the academy.

References and further reading

External links

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