who we are
Welcome to Chapin's website!
I encourage you to explore its many pages to learn more about a Chapin education, and how our students discover within themselves the power to lead lives of curiosity, empathy and joy.
Chapin’s rich educational tradition dates back to 1901, when Maria Bowen Chapin founded the School. Our mission is to cultivate an intellectual mind, generous spirit and resilient character. Our girls and young women find joy and purpose in the pursuit of scholarly excellence, strength in our community and inspiration in our founder's call to be brave for others and brave for self. Our students are artists, athletes, computer programmers, engineers, musicians and physicists, often at the same time. From Kindergarten to Class 12, they all share a home at 100 East End Avenue, which encourages collaboration and life-long friendships and vibrates with their warmth and energy.
As you explore our website's pages, you will find that Chapin is a school where young women blossom, and to which they often return. Thank you for your interest in Chapin, and I hope to see you here soon.
Sincerely,
Suzanne Fogarty
Head of School
Discover What Distinguishes Chapin
The Chapin School Mission
The Chapin School cultivates an intellectual mind, generous spirit and resilient character. Our girls and young women find joy and purpose in the pursuit of scholarly excellence, strength in our community and inspiration in our founder's call to be brave for others and brave for self.
Our Core Values
We foster CURIOSITY within an environment
of collaboration and courage. Recognizing
that learning has no beginning and no end,
we listen and act with compassion to deepen
our understanding of diverse experiences
and perspectives.
We pursue EXCELLENCE in our intellectual
endeavors, which is essential to nurturing
and developing the leadership potential
of our students.
We honor our shared HUMANITY through
our active and ongoing commitment to
building a welcoming community that
fosters belonging, inclusion and
representation for all.
We choose INTEGRITY as responsible,
honest and kind citizens in a complex
and dynamic world.
CHAPIN HISTORY
Ever since Maria Bowen Chapin founded The Chapin School in 1901, her commitment to academic excellence and high moral values have been the cornerstones of the School's philosophy. Miss Chapin cited the following characteristics as a standard of excellence for a school: "Profound recognition of the dignity of sound scholarship, respect for all those values and traditions of the past which have contributed to that which is best in the present, and courage to attempt the untrodden ways of any height which may give a wider vision of the future-to-be-desired." Her vision for the education of young women has remained our guide as our curriculum and traditions have evolved.
Chapin Fast Facts
- All Chapin students, Kindergarten through Class 12, attend school under one roof, creating a unique sense of continuity and community. The school building, located at 100 East End Avenue, features 56 classrooms, a two-story library with a multimedia room, eight science laboratories, three art studios including a photography darkroom and a ceramics studio, three music studios, a black box theater, two dance studios, two computer laboratories, a design and innovation lab, two cafeterias, three gymnasiums, a fitness center and a training room, a greenhouse and a play roof.
- Our current enrollment is 830. Our students reside in over 100 zip codes across three states, coming from all parts of Manhattan, as well as the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester County, Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey.
- Chapin is a member of Interschool, a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of eight Manhattan independent schools—Brearley, Browning, Chapin, Collegiate, Dalton, Nightingale-Bamford, Spence and Trinity—known for their high academic standards, outstanding teaching and traditions of quality. The purpose of Interschool is to share the special resources and talents of each of the schools with the other schools in the consortium, thereby supplementing what each school can do on its own. Interschool runs collaborative curricular and extracurricular programs that serve students, teachers, administrators, trustees and parents and link the schools to the great New York City community. The eight Heads of School compose the Board of Directors.