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

500 (total)[2]
175 (grades 9–12)[1]

Single Building

Brownstone

Blue and White

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.

writer[3]

Kathy Acker

last Queen of Sikkim

Hope Cooke

food writer

Barbara Costikyan

(BW '58), actor

Joel Crothers

dancer

Viola Essen

president of Knopf Publishing.

Robert Gottlieb

edupreneur, CEO of Noodle

John Katzman

publisher[4]

Alfred A Knopf, Jr.

(BW '44), novelist[5]

Judith Krantz

(BW '42), Founder of anarcho-capitalism

Murray Rothbard

designer [6]

Edwin Schlossberg

(BW '36), novelist[7]

Mary Stolz

(BW '43), former director of IBM Research, Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary General of NATO[8]

Gardiner L. Tucker

journalist, writer, and media personality[9][10]

Barbara Walters

Birch Wathen Lenox School website

at Private School Review

Birch Wathen Lenox School

listing in the Bunting & Lyon Blue Book

The Birch Wathen Lenox School

on the midcentury BW building.

Architectural essay

on the midcentury Lenox building.

Architectural essay