Birch Wathen Lenox School
Birch Wathen School (1921)
Lenox School (1916)
Private, Coeducational
Integrity, Civility, Loyalty
1991 (as Birch Wathen Lenox School)
Bill E. Kuhn
70[1]
K-12
Single Building
Brownstone
All major high school varsity sports
Lion
Leaves
The Clarion
History[edit]
Birch Wathen Lenox was created in 1991 through the merger of the Birch Wathen School (founded in 1921 by Louise Birch and Edith Wathen), and The Lenox School (founded in 1916 by Jessica Garretson Finch).
The Lenox School had been an all-girls school until 1974, when it went co-educational.
Between 1962 and 1989, Birch Wathen was located in the Herbert N. Straus House, an ornate French-style building at 9 East 71st Street across from the Frick Collection
Sports[edit]
Birch Wathen Lenox fields teams in soccer, volleyball, swimming, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, hockey and roblotics.
Athletic teams play under the auspices of the Independent Schools Athletic League (New York) or the Girls Independent School Athletic League, which are leagues in the NYSAISAA (New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association).
The robotics team plays in the First Robotics Competition, more commonly referred to as FRC.