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The Baldwin School

The Baldwin School (simply referred to as Baldwin School or Baldwin) is a private school for girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1888 by Florence Baldwin.

The Baldwin School

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Latin: Disce Verum Laborem

1888 (1888)

Florence Baldwin

Lynne Macziewski[2]

78.6 (on an FTE basis)[1]

PK–12

572 (2022–2023)[1]

7.0[1]

Blue and gray   

Winnie the Bear

Baldwin Bears

  • Echoes
  • Florilège
  • El Pimiento
  • The Roman Candle
  • The Baldwin Review
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The Hourglass[3]

1.5 acres (0.61 ha)

1890

April 27, 1979

April 11, 2000[5]

The school occupies a former nineteenth-century resort hotel that was designed by Victorian architect Frank Furness, a landmark of the Philadelphia Main Line.[6] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[4]


Baldwin's brother school is the Haverford School, in nearby Haverford.[7] The Baldwin School is not religiously associated.

Student body[edit]

Students of color represent 40% of the student body.[12]

Arts[edit]

Music[edit]

Baldwin's music education begins in the Lower School. Students receive twice weekly music classes and sing in weekly choruses in Grades 3–5. Students perform in musical plays once a year. In Middle School, chorus, orchestra and classes in guitar and hand bell are available. In Upper School, ensembles include a jazz band, a classical chamber music ensemble, two hand bell choirs, vocal ensembles, and an orchestra.


The Middle School Chorus participates annually in the Music in the Parks competition at Hershey Park in May. At the 2014 competition, the Middle School Chorus received a Superior rating and the Best Overall Middle School Chorus trophy for their performances. The B-Flats are the acapella group for Upper Schoolers at Baldwin, and travels to Denmark every three years. The B-flats have won the Ardmore Rotary in 2022, 2023, and 2024

Official website

Main Line Today magazine

Petersen's Private Secondary Schools

National Coalition of Girls' Schools

National Association of Independent Schools

History of the Main Line