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Pomfret School
Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 350 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates. Founded in 1894, it is in the Pomfret Street Historic District. The average class size is 12, with a student–teacher ratio of 6:1. Over 80% of faculty hold master's degrees or doctorates. Typically, 40% of students receive financial aid, 20% are students of color, and 21% are international students.
The school opened on October 3, 1894, founded by William E. Peck and his wife, Harriet. In the first decade of the 1900s, Pomfret was transformed from mainly Colonial Revival buildings to a "planned institution". By 1906, architect Ernest Flagg had designed a master plan for the school. The pavilion arrangement reflected the influence of Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia.
For the chapel, commissioned by Edward Clark in 1907, Flagg used Norman architecture as a model and emulated the rich textures of the unpolished stonework characteristic of that style.
After visiting the campus in 1910, when construction was nearly complete, Flagg compared Pomfret to his design of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, remarking, "The school is better architecturally than Annapolis." While his design for Annapolis had been repeatedly altered by the Navy during construction, the work at Pomfret scrupulously followed his design. Flagg hoped that his work for Pomfret would set a trend and lead to a "national style of architecture".
Harriet Peck Jones designed Pomfret's coat of arms. She contacted members of the Fermor family, holders of the earldom of Pomfret in England. They suggested the school's coat of arms should be that of their family: Argent, a fess sable (black) between three lions' heads erased gules (red).
Adam Hochschild, who attended Pomfret in the 1950s, described it in 1982 as one of about 20 select U.S. schools, all built around 1900 or before, that were "upper-class single-sex boarding schools" until the 1960s. He added that it was, at the time, "basically a school for the rich".
Since Hochschild's time, Pomfret has gradually attracted a significantly more diverse student body. In the 2023–24 school year, it awarded $5 million in financial aid to 37% of the student body.
The 500-acre campus, established in 1894, was designed by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, and expanded over the years to its current size through gifts and acquisitions. The facility's master plan was designed in 1906 by American architect Ernest Flagg.
Pomfret School
Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 350 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates. Founded in 1894, it is in the Pomfret Street Historic District. The average class size is 12, with a student–teacher ratio of 6:1. Over 80% of faculty hold master's degrees or doctorates. Typically, 40% of students receive financial aid, 20% are students of color, and 21% are international students.
The school opened on October 3, 1894, founded by William E. Peck and his wife, Harriet. In the first decade of the 1900s, Pomfret was transformed from mainly Colonial Revival buildings to a "planned institution". By 1906, architect Ernest Flagg had designed a master plan for the school. The pavilion arrangement reflected the influence of Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia.
For the chapel, commissioned by Edward Clark in 1907, Flagg used Norman architecture as a model and emulated the rich textures of the unpolished stonework characteristic of that style.
After visiting the campus in 1910, when construction was nearly complete, Flagg compared Pomfret to his design of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, remarking, "The school is better architecturally than Annapolis." While his design for Annapolis had been repeatedly altered by the Navy during construction, the work at Pomfret scrupulously followed his design. Flagg hoped that his work for Pomfret would set a trend and lead to a "national style of architecture".
Harriet Peck Jones designed Pomfret's coat of arms. She contacted members of the Fermor family, holders of the earldom of Pomfret in England. They suggested the school's coat of arms should be that of their family: Argent, a fess sable (black) between three lions' heads erased gules (red).
Adam Hochschild, who attended Pomfret in the 1950s, described it in 1982 as one of about 20 select U.S. schools, all built around 1900 or before, that were "upper-class single-sex boarding schools" until the 1960s. He added that it was, at the time, "basically a school for the rich".
Since Hochschild's time, Pomfret has gradually attracted a significantly more diverse student body. In the 2023–24 school year, it awarded $5 million in financial aid to 37% of the student body.
The 500-acre campus, established in 1894, was designed by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, and expanded over the years to its current size through gifts and acquisitions. The facility's master plan was designed in 1906 by American architect Ernest Flagg.