Joyce Slayton Mitchell, the Nightingale college advisor, serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the College Board Review and on the school committee of U.S.

In late September 2008, three NBS students were named semifinalists in the National Achievement Scholarship Program, which recognizes outstanding black high school students. In October 2008, the NBS Middle School literary magazine Out of Uniform was awarded the Gold Medalist Certificate from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association of Columbia University. The median SAT scores are 680 critical reading and 650 mathematics. She has announced that she will step down at the end of the 2011-12 school year, which will be the end of her 20th year at the school.ħ5% of the NBS faculty hold masters and/or doctoral degrees. She is currently the longest serving head of school of any girls’ school in New York City. Facultyĭorothy Hutcheson has been head of Nightingale since 1992. As of 2008, the School endowment is at $74.9 million. Since 1920, NBS has graduated nearly 3,000 alumnae. NBS was originally named Miss Nightingale's School officially becoming 'The Nightingale-Bamford School' in 1929. Historyįrances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford founded the School in 1920. The school is popular with elite families in New York. The student-faculty ratio is 7:1 and the average class size is that of 12 students for academic and up to 22 for P.E. Nightingale holds a small size of 560 students, approximately 45 pupils per grade level. Middle School includes grades 5-8, and Upper School includes grades 9-12. Lower School Nightingale students include girls from grades K-4.

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