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There is great joy and opportunity to be a K-12 school and develop a rigorous curriculum for girls ages 5 to 18, serving as the foundation of a lifelong passion for learning. Every space and every aspect of our program focuses on teaching and learning, building close connections with a gifted faculty, and creating age-appropriate distinction for our Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools. This is what shapes our community. We are a school with a national reputation for educating scholarly women of the highest order. In Spence's all-girls environment, you will find the very considered community that embodies what it means to share sisterhood and womanhood in defining our education. We put equal importance on self-agency and self-development as we do on purposeful citizenship and care for others. Our charge undoubtedly is preparing our students for the world ahead, and it has always been the charge since the School's founding in 1892. Our entire School—faculty, students, administrators, trustees, parents, and alumnae—is engaged in ensuring that Spence is a thriving community, diverse in perspectives and ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. We recognize diversity as an essential component of academic excellence: the depth of our commitment to diversity infuses every conversation. The Spence School adheres to a long-standing policy of admitting students of any race, color, religion, sexual orientation, and national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available students at the School. It does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in administering its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship or athletic, and other school-administered programs. With a commitment to academic excellence and personal integrity, The Spence School prepares a diverse community of girls and young women for the lifelong transformation of self and the world with purpose, passion, and perspective. Offering a rigorous, liberal arts study, The Spence School develops high standards and character while creating an environment that fosters self-confidence and learning joy. Charging our students to meet the demands of academic excellence and responsible citizenship in a changing world, we teach that diverse points of view fuel inquiry, engagement, and deeper understandings of complex truths. We believe in the strength, intellect, and vitality of women. A community as complex and vibrant as Spence does not happen by accident. It takes a real community-wide engagement and a commitment to a strategic, long-view approach to faithfully devote to building a program that prepares girls and young women for the world's complexities while also mirroring the city's rich diversity surrounds it. Every member of the school community is afforded the training and the agency to partner in sustaining the exploration of all aspects of diversity, inclusion, and equity in conversations in and out of the classroom. Because it is of the utmost importance, questions both ethical and practical around equity live deeply in the work of building the School whether in admissions practices, faculty and staff recruitment, and training, curriculum design or student life, and leadership. Taking an inside-out approach, faculty and staff are immersed in ongoing professional development that focuses on personal growth and a personal journey to understanding. This, in turn, transforms the School. Lower School (Grades K-4) Address: 56 East 93rd Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues) Postal Code: 10128 Phone: +1 646 9436851 View full school