Trinity-Pawling School
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| Trinity-Pawling School | |
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| Type | All-boys, boarding, secondary school |
| Motto | Pride (Fides et Virtus) |
| Established | 1907 |
| Head of school | Archibald A. Smith III |
| Faculty | 78 faculty |
| Grades | 9-12, and post graduate. Middle School is available for day students |
| Enrollment | 325 students, 80% boarders, 20% day students |
| Color(s) | Blue & Gold |
| Athletics | 13 intercolligate sports with 30 teams. |
| Athletics conference | Founders' League |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Matriculation Rate | 100% of Trinity-Pawling seniors are accepted to four year universities |
| Religious Affiliation | Non-denominational (originally Episcopalian)[1] |
| Website | http://www.trinitypawling.org |
Trinity-Pawling School is a private high school in Pawling, New York. With 325 students Trinity-Pawling has a strong emphasis on effot that the school's founder Dr. Frederick Luther Gamage thought was essential to a young man's learning experience. It is an all boy's school sitting on 150 acres in the Hudson Valley.Trinity-Pawling participate's in the Founders Athletic league along with other top boarding schools.
History
Dr. Frederick Luther Gamage a respected headmaster at St. Paul's School in Garden City started Trinity-Pawling in 1907.He left St. Paul's to create a new school that embodied his own educational philosophy-one grounded on the idea that effort across the board is the foundation on which achievement rests. "Whether a boy succeeds in the first instance at all he attempts is irrelevant," Dr. Gamage used to say. "Over time, effort inevitably yields achievement. The only time a boy truly fails is when he fails to try."Trinity-Pawling is located on a 150 acre campus in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Most of the building's are made from stone and boast Gothic Archetecture.
Mission
-To continue the tradition started in 1907,Trinity-Pawling is an all-male college preparatory school serving primarily boarding students. The young men of Trinity-Pawling are encouraged to reach their potential, and the faculty is committed to upholding the high standards of learning.
-To instill a value system, steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition and reflected in the chapel experience, which prepares Trinity-Pawling boys to face the challenges of a multicultural world, to be leaders who strive for justice for all people, and to be contributing members of society.
-To provide a foundation which enables a student to think and act as an independent and responsible person.
-To foster a sense of community based upon a boarding school tradition - boys living with peers and faculty families. Respect for others, a dress code, family-style meals, and appropriate behavior are hallmarks of this community.
-To promote a school culture that embraces diversity and recognizes the uniqueness of each individual.
-To develop close student-teacher relationships with a special concern for the personal development of the whole student: intellectual, creative, spiritual, moral, social, and athletic.
-To encourage within each boy a love of learning, the ability to think analytically and to develop the skills necessary to continue learning as a life-long experience.
-To support faculty excellence in teaching, coaching, and mentoring of students.
-To value equally effort and achievement - a boy is judged not only by academic and extracurricular accomplishments, but also by his efforts to excel to the best of his abilities.
Academics
The school year has three terms – fall, winter and spring. Final examinations are held at the end of both the fall and spring terms. Students are graded on a scale of 1-100. The passing certification grade is 60; the honor grade is 80. Grades are available to parents online and presented to students every three to four weeks. Faculty comments are available through the online grading system three times a year at the end of each term. Weekly reports are sent when a student’s performance warrants more frequent monitoring. All students in Advanced Placement courses take exams in May. A student’s privileges are based on academic rating, citizenship, and most importantly, academic effort. Academic effort is weighed more heavily than achievement in view of the School’s academic philosophy. Effort grades are given out twice each term, at the midpoint and at the end. They are based on effort in academic courses, dormitory, work program, attendance, discipline, activities, and athletics.The school is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and is registered by the New York State Board of Regents. The School is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools. Other memberships include the New York State Association of Independent Schools, The International Boys School Coalition, The Council for Religion in Independent Schools, The American Alumni Council, the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, the College Board and the Secondary School Admission Test Board.Here's how the system works. Every six weeks, you receive effort marks ranging from "1" through "5" in seven different areas of campus life: academic achievement, academic participation, attendance and discipline, work program, extracurricular activities, athletics and the dormitory. Each area is weighted differently. Academic participation, for instance, counts for 30% of your overall effort ranking. Dorm citizenship is 15%. Athletics counts for 10 %. Once all the effort marks have been generated, they are weighted appropriately and averaged together. One number between "1" and "5" is generated.If you're on the First Effort Group, you have every privilege the school can offer. And remember, your group rating is not just about grades. You can be a straight "C" student and be in the First Effort Group. For you, Evening Study Hall is optional. You can take more weekends off campus than anyone else. You don't have to come back from your weekends until 9 PM. You don't have to get up for breakfast. When you demonstrate responsibility, you earn respect.
Tuition
Tuition for the 2008-09 school year is $41,250 for boarding students, $29,150 for day students and $20,150 for Middle School students. These figures are all-inclusive except for books, lab fees, infirmary charges and incidental expenses which average about $1,500. Language Program charges are an additional $7,000 for the first year and $4,900 for the second.
Residential Life
Trinity-Pawling was founded as a boarding school and remains true to that tradition. Of our present enrollment of 320 boys, 75% are boarding students. They are housed in eighteen distinct dormitory units in eight separate buildings. Individual dormitory units contain as few as eight students and as many as sixteen. Generally the larger units tend to have two adults serving as dormitory masters, while the smaller units may have only one adult serving as a dormitory master. In all circumstances, the adults are assisted in their duties by seniors in good standing who serve as dormitory proctors. Ultimately, the dormitory is where our boys truly “live.” In turn, the quality of the people who run these dormitories is of paramount importance. 32 teachers live in dormitories, 10 additional teachers live on campus as a condition of their employment. The residential staff is the academic staff. Trinity-Pawling does not believe in the practice of having a separate staff of residential adult advisors. Those administrators no longer on dormitory play an active role in the functioning of the dormitories, and continue to serve as advisors. The school mission statement states that Trinity-Pawling intends “to foster a sense of community based upon a boarding school tradition – boys living with peers and faculty families.” This intention is best met by organizing our dorms according to class groupings. Each dormitory unit is comprised of students from a particular class. Dormitory parents and the senior proctors then oversee them. The school’s intention is to try to keep students of the same class in the same region on campus. For example, we have “freshmen corner” on our quad. This grouping fosters a sense of “home” and belonging for our newest students. The dormitory masters also serve as advisors for the majority of the boys on their dormitory. This ensures the age appropriateness of student interaction as well as allowing the faculty to deal with boys of a similar age on a regular basis.
Trinity-Pawling truly prides itself on those aspects of residential life that lead to an environment of home like adult support for the residents. Consequently, dormitory masters are the first adults in any line of communication at the school. Faculty members are encouraged to maintain an “open door policy” during study hall. This facilitates both supervision, as well as a sense of family and community. In one dormitory in particular, the student lounges are actually part of the faculty homes. The books of one dormitory master are available for use by the students. It is not uncommon to find the dormitory master, his two dogs, and few boys lounging and watching TV together after study hall. Lastly, the school provides an ample budget for dormitory parties, and there are four scheduled advisor/advisee dinners during the year. All faculty invite the boys into their homes for home-cooked meals or trips are arranged to mini-golf and a local burger stand.
Athletics
At Trinity-Pawling boy's are required to play three sports for three season's every year.The school competes in the Founders' League, a highly competitive arena which college recruiters consider a prime source for spotting some of the nation's best prep-school talent. T-P's league competitors, all of which are in New England, include Avon, Kent, Hotchkiss, Loomis, Choate, Taft, Kingswood-Oxford and Westminster.Trinity-Pawling offer's 13 intercolligate sports with 30 team's.The school has two football fields, four soccer fields, two baseball diamonds, a all weather track,three lacrosse fields, an entirely renovated, enclosed hockey arena and 12 tennis courts.The Carleton Gymnasium houses basketball courts, five international squash courts, a newly renovated weight training and cardiovascular fitness center, a wrestling pavilion and the Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Arts
Visual arts
The ground floor of the Arts Center is devoted to spaces for the visual arts. The Photo Lab has 12 enlargers and two other rooms for rolling film, drying and mounting prints, and storage. The Pottery Room has nine wheels, a slab roller, and three kilns for oxidation firings. A large painting and drawing studio can hold up to two classes at one time and the smaller Veith Studio is used by advanced students.