Trinity School

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One of the oldest elementary and high schools in America. Dating back to 1709 the Trinity School (originally located at Trinity Church on Wall Street) is a most prestigious institution for boys and girls K-12. It currently occupies several connected buildings between West 91st & 92nd Streets.

Trinity School traces its founding to 1709 when William Huddleston, lawyer, clerk of Trinity Church, and schoolmaster, first received a grant from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, an Anglican missionary organization in London, to teach poor children in the parish of Trinity Church. The first schoolhouse was built on church grounds in 1749. In 1838, Trinity closed admission to girls. Girls would not be readmitted until 1971.[1] In 1889, Trinity School moved to 627 Madison Avenue (at 59th Street), and moved again a year later to 108 West 45th Street. English and classical learning became the rule as the school increased in size to as many as 250 students and as Trinity refashioned itself as a college preparatory school for boys.

In 1895, Trinity moved to its current location at 91st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Trinity currently occupies seven connected buildings: 151 and 149 West 91st Street house the admissions, advancement, and business offices; 139 West 91st houses the Lower School; 121 West 91st Street houses the Lower School language labs, Middle School Science Labs, and the Morse Theater; 115 West 91st houses the Middle School and two gymnasia; and 101 West 91st houses the Upper School, the two swimming pools, and the John McEnroe '77 Tennis Courts (opened in 2012), and in 2017 the school opened a 65,000 square foot addition, adding new science labs, classrooms, and a new performing arts center. The school also owns the apartment tower at the northeast corner of the block, the base of which houses the Upper School.

www.trinityschoolnyc.org/