Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth Hall School is a private high school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee.

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High school - Nashville, Tennessee

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It was founded in the early 1950s as the replacement to Ward-Belmont College, a former "finishing school" south of downtown Nashville. It was built as a non-residential (day) school in the Green Hills neighborhood, a prestigious and affluent residential area southwest of downtown Nashville. It is dediciated to academic excellence in a single-sex environment, and is often regarded as something of a sister institution to Montgomery Bell Academy. The two institutions do co-operate in certain areas such as dramatic presentations, and Harpeth Hall supplies some of MBA's cheerleaders. They occasionally also are scheduled together for basketball games.

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1950s - Ward-Belmont College - Finishing school - Neighborhood - Montgomery Bell Academy - Basketball

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Sports teams were initially nicknamed the "Honeybears" but this seemed rather sexist to many in recent years and the name is now generally given as "Bears".

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