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}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}}{{Infobox school | name = The Masters School | image = TheMastersSchool.png | image_size = 200px | motto = Do It With Thy Might | city = Dobbs Ferry | state = New York | country = USA | coordinates = {{coord|41.010943|-73.870451|type:edu_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | type = Private, boarding | established = 1877 | founder = Eliza B. Masters | chairman = Edith Chapin | head_of_school = Laura Davis Danforth | teaching_staff = 109 | grades = 5-12 | enrollment = Upper School: 510 Middle School: 171 | international_students = 20% | avg_class_size = 14 | ratio = 8:1 | conference = NEPSAC | mascot = Panther | rival = Hackley School, Horace Mann School | newspaper = Tower | yearbook = Masterpieces | tuition = Boarding: $62,500 Day: $44,550 Middle School: $43,050 | head_label = Head of School | campus = {{convert|96|acre|m2}} | address = 49 Clinton Ave | colors = Purple, White | homepage = {{URL|mastersny.org}} | endowment = $50 million }} The Masters School (colloquially known as Masters), is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its {{convert|96|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus is located north of New York City in the Hudson Valley in Westchester County. It was founded as an all-girls private school in 1877 by Eliza Bailey Masters, and first admitted boys in 1996. HistoryEarly historyThe school was founded in 1877 by Eliza Bailey Masters as the ″Misses Masters' Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies and Children.″ Eliza Masters had been born in 1845 to a devout Methodist family. Never married, she was inspired by the loss of her brother, the teacher Jeremiah Wilbur Masters, to typhoid fever to start the school. Following her father's death in 1874, Eliza Masters founded the school at Wilde House, also called Kirk Knoll, near the school's present-day location. James Jennings McComb, a cotton magnate and philanthropist, moved to Dobbs Ferry in the 1880s to be closer to his children. He purchased a 23-acre parcel close to Wilde House from one Dr. Ryder, and commissioned a mansion, called Estherwood in honor of his second wife, Esther Wood, on it. (The mansion was completed in 1891.) At the time, the school, which had a burgeoning student body, was considering move to Irvington to the estate of Cyrus West Field. McComb convinced Eliza Masters to stay in Dobbs Ferry by purchasing 11 acres south of Estherwood, building First and Second Houses on them in 1883, and leasing them to the school for a nominal rent. The school's faculty and 75 students moved to McComb's estate in the fall of 1883. In 1888, McComb built a Third House as a school building with an assembly hall, classrooms, a gym, a studio, and a laboratory. A Fourth House, devoted to the study of domestic science, was constructed in 1891. After McComb's death in 1901, Eliza Masters purchased his estate for the equivalent of $12 million. After Eliza Master's death in 1921, her sister, Sarah Wilbur Masters, succeeded her as headmistress, serving alongside Mary Comstock Strong. The School was incorporated in 1911 and Masters Hall, designed by Ralph Adams Cram, was completed in 1921. Many of the school's clubs, including the Missionary Society (today known as MISH), the Dobbs Athletic Association, Glee Club, and Phoenix (the school's acting society), came about during the early 20th century. The school taught English, French, Latin, music, art, the Bible, moral philosophy, astronomy, botany, mathematics, domestic science, and etiquette. While it was secular, Masters had a religious tone; it catered exclusively to female students.[1] Later yearsIn 1996, due to under-enrollment, the school became co-educational, opening itself to male students for the first time.[2] Student bodyThe Masters School has over 670 students in grades 5-12. The school is co-educational with the exception of grades 6-8 in which most classes are separated by gender. As of February 2018, Masters students come from 15 states and 35 countries.[3] In the Upper School, 17% of students are international.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} FacultyOver 70% of the faculty have advanced degrees. The average class size is 14 students.[4] CampusThe school's wooded 96-acre campus is on a hilltop in Dobbs Ferry, a historic village with a sloping geography and waterfront on the Hudson River. A five-minute walk from the campus brings students down to the heart of town, and a train ride to New York City that takes anywhere from 35 to 50 minutes.[5] Located in the center of campus, two dormitories for boys and three dormitories for girls accommodate more than 150 upper school American and international students. Both sets of dorms have outdoor space with grills for use in the warmer months as well as phones, wireless internet connections, and washers and dryers. There are dorm common rooms containing a TV/VCR and a state-of-the-art kitchen.[6] The campus includes Estherwood, a late 19th-century mansion that is the only châteauesque building in Westchester County. It and its carriage house are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It houses faculty in apartments on the upper floors, and the first floor and grounds offer a unique setting for school parties and programs. Student chamber ensembles perform in Estherwood and, each year, drama students present one-act plays in one of the mansion's rooms. Facilities
AthleticsThe school offers the following sports each season: {{col-begin|width=auto}}{{col-break}}Fall
Academics and curriculumThe minimum course load each year includes five major courses. Graduation requirements include four years of English, three years of a foreign language, three years of mathematics (through at least Trigonometry), two years of lab science, three years of history (including U.S. history), religion (a one-year minor), humanities minor in grade 9, visual or performing arts minor, public speaking, health, and four years of physical education or other athletic credit. The school offers honors sections in the sciences, mathematics, and languages. Advanced Placement courses are offered in all of the academic departments. Nearly all classes at Masters are designed around the Harkness method, a discussion-based teaching method designed to encourage active participation in education, and help students develop listening and speaking skills.[7] To facilitate this method, nearly all classrooms are fitted with a large ovular Harkness table of varying sizes depending on the room. All of the tables have pull out boards built into the table for administrating exams. Tower is the student newspaper of The Masters School. It is published approximately seven times a year, including one satirical issue. Arts and music
The Drama Department stages three productions each year—a dramatic play in the fall, a musical in the winter, and student-directed one-act plays in the spring. Members of Phoenix, the school's honorary drama society, stage their own productions throughout the year. Phoenix Coffee House offers "open mic" opportunities for performers, poets, and musicians in the community.
The music program offers classes and private lessons during the school day, one of the most popular being the school's chorus, known as Glee Club. Smaller A Capella groups are also popular. Students may participate in any of three groups: The Naturals, an all-male group; Dohters, all-female; and Dobbs 16, a coed group. Dobbs 16 has won competitions including the Northeast regional of the National Championship of High School A Capella 2005. The group toured China in the spring of 2008 and went on The Tyra Banks Show in fall 2009.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} The host of instrumental and vocal groups includes a community orchestra and a jazz ensemble, plus bands and combos that offer opportunities for musical expression.
The dance program offers classes during the day and three audition-only dance companies. Muse and Urban Connection perform modern/ballet and hip-hop, respectively. The Masters School Dance Company performs twice a year. Notable alumni and facultyAlumni:
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