Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS), also known as Fieldston, is a private pre-K–12th grade coeducational school in New York City with two campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx. The school is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. The school serves approximately 1,700 students with 480 faculty and staff.[2]
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Latin: Fiat lux ("Let there be light")
1878
Joe Algrant
Approx. 270
1,662
6:1
18 acres (73,000 m2)
Orange
Fieldglass
$63,020 (2023-24) [1]
Fieldston News The Fieldston LP, Fieldston Lit Mag, Middle School News, Dope Ink Prints, The Hill Chronicle, Inklings, The Fieldston Political Journal
- "Fieldston Lower School" (Fieldston Lower School)
- "It's the Feeling Inside" (Ethical Culture)
- "I'm On My Way" (Middle School)
- "Iam Canamus" (Upper School)
The school consists of four divisions: Ethical Culture (Pre-K through 5th grade, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan), Fieldston Lower (in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, also serves Pre-K through 5th grade), Fieldston Middle (6th–8th grades, in Riverdale), and Fieldston Upper (9th–12th grades, in Riverdale). Tuition and fees for ECFS were $60,595 for the 2022-2023 school year and $63,020 for the 2023-2024 school year. [3][4]
Academics[edit]
The core of their educational program is the study and practice of ethics which is infused throughout the interdisciplinary curriculum. Whole-child pedagogy attempts to nurture the intellectual, physical, emotional, and social growth of every student. [16]
Fieldston terminated its participation in the Advanced Placement Program in 2002 to give its faculty the freedom to offer more innovative, challenging, and thought-provoking material. Students can take AP exams, but the school no longer officially sponsors such courses.[17]
Peer schools[edit]
Ethical Culture Fieldston is a part of the Ivy Preparatory School League,[23] with many of New York City's elite private schools. The three high schools Fieldston, Riverdale, and Horace Mann together are known as the "Hill schools,"[24] as all three (sometimes rivals) are located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, on a hilly area above Van Cortlandt Park.
