Horace Mann School

History

The school was originally founded by Nicholas Murray Butler as a co-educational experimental and developmental unit of Teachers College at Columbia University. The school started life at 9 University Place in Manhattan, and then moved in 1901 to 120th Street in Morningside Heights. Columbia University followed suit soon afterards, moving northwards to its present location. The name of the school can still be seen on the western-most building at Teachers College, named Horace Mann Hall. However, Horace Mann was becoming a school in its own right instead of just a teaching laboratory, and became more independent of the University and Teachers College. Thus, Teachers College created the Lincoln School to continue its experiments in teaching.

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Nicholas Murray Butler - Teachers College - Columbia University - Manhattan - 1901 - Morningside Heights - Lincoln School

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Shedding its co-educational roots, the school split into separate all-male and all-female schools. In 1912, the Boys' School moved to 246th Street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, and during the 1940's it severed formal ties with Teachers College and became Horace Mann School. The Girls' School merged with the Lincoln School in 1940, and then finally closed in 1946.

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1912 - Riverdale - Bronx - 1940 - 1946

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In 1972, Horace Mann merged with the nearby Barnard School to form the Horace Mann-Barnard Lower School for kindergarten through grade six, located on the former Barnard School campus. In 1975, the school returned to its roots as a co-educational learning environment and began admitting women to the Upper School. In the late 1990's, the sixth grade moved from the Horace Mann-Barnard campus to the main 246th Street campus and formed a distinct Middle School along with the seventh and eighth grades.

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1972 - Barnard School - Kindergarten - Grade six - 1975 - Seventh - Eighth grade

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