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'''The Shipley School''' is a [[private school]] for students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Shipley is located in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], approximately 12 miles west of Philadelphia.
==History==
Hannah Shipley, Elizabeth Shipley, and Katharine Shipley, all sisters, founded The Shipley School in 1888 as a preparatory school for [[Bryn Mawr College]], a women's college, which was located directly across the street. The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, educated [[Quaker]] women and created the school with the goal of passing on these values to similarly minded young women. The school opened in the Fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Shipley School: History | url = http://www.shipleyschool.org/page.aspx?pid=309 | accessdate = 2010-09-16}}</ref>
By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students. At this time, about half of all Upper School students were boarders hailing from all over the country and from Europe, Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Shipley discontinued its boarding department and began to admit male students. The last boarders graduated in 1982, and by 1984 the school was fully coeducational with equal numbers of girls and boys.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Shipley School: History | url = http://www.shipleyschool.org/whohist.html | accessdate = 2008-07-24 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080305014352/http://www.shipleyschool.org/whohist.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2008-03-05}}</ref> Starting in the 1990s, and increasingly since then, Shipley has augmented their traditional teaching methods and facilities with growing technological expertise and equipment.
==Notable alumni==
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