Tower Hill School

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Tower Hill School
Address
Tower Hill School
2813 West 17th Street

Wilmington
,
Delaware
19806

United States
Coordinates 39°45′53″N75°34′38″W / 39.764716°N 75.577355°W / 39.764716; -75.577355
Information
School type Private College Preparatory School
MottoMulta Bene Facta [1]
(Many Things Done Well)
Religious affiliation(s) Non-denominational
Founded1919(106 years ago) (1919) [2]
Founders Walter S. Carpenter Jr., R. Ruliph M. Carpenter, Irénée du Pont, Lammot du Pont, Eugene E. du Pont, Alexis Felix du Pont, Josiah Marvel, Hugh Rodney Sharp, William Winder Laird, Charles Marshall Barton, and Dr. Albert Robin [2] [ better source needed ]
CEEB code 080205
Chair Ben duPont
Head of schoolSarah Baker [3]
Grades Preschool K–12
Gender Coeducational
Enrollment867 [4]
Student to teacher ratio7:1 [1]
Schedule Day
Color(s)Kelly green and white
   [1]
Athletics Independent Conference(DISC)
Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA)
Mascot White Tiger and Hiller
PublicationThe Dial
Website www.towerhill.org

Tower Hill School is a private college preparatory school in Wilmington, Delaware, offering instruction for pre-school through 12th grade.

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History

Tower Hill was founded in 1919. [2] [5] [ better source needed ] Its main building was designed by Wilmington architects Brown & Whiteside and completed in 1920. [6] The school is situated at the high point of Wilmington's neighborhood, The Highlands, where the dominant landmark is Rockford Tower, erected in 1901 to control the city's water supply. Tower Hill, in London, is the birthplace of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, who landed in Delaware, in 1682.[ citation needed ]

Recognition

The school is a member of the Delaware Independent School Conference. [7] [ better source needed ] The school offered US$2,000,000 a year of need-based financial aid to 28% of its students for the 2016–2017 school year. [1] The Wall Street Journal ranked Tower Hill 24th in the nation and 1st in Delaware, in percentage of students attending eight top colleges. [8] Tower Hill School is ranked 47th in the nation for best private day schools. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Forever Green: A Commemorative History of Tower Hill School". Our History. Tower Hill School Association. 1994. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Installation of 11th Head of School" Towerhill.org. Tower Hill School, 13 Oct. 2023. https://www.towerhill.org/about/head-of-school .
  4. ↑ Tower Hill School. "Student Directory." TowerNet. Last modified Sep 2024. https://towerhill.myschoolapp.com/app/parent#directory/778.
  5. ↑ "Tower Hill School Homepage". Tower Hill School. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ W. Barksdale Maynard, Buildings of Delaware (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008): 144.
  7. ↑ "Athletics at Tower Hill". Tower Hill School. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ "How the Schools Stack Up". Wall Street Journal. December 28, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Top 50 Private day schools/accessdate=October 25, 2015". September 13, 2017.
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