Town & Country Highlights Archer in a Feature on Girls’ Schools
Archer is highlighted in “The Return of the All-Girls School,” a feature by Nicole LaPorte in the October issue of Town & Country magazine. In the piece, LaPorte describes her experience visiting Archer for the first time: “Pretty soon I was falling hard for the messaging: Here, only girls could be class presidents and robotics captains. Here, they ‘developed their voice.’ Here, they were free to just be.”
On choosing Archer for her daughter Katrina R. ’32, LaPorte writes: “Suddenly I saw a place where the transition from fifth to sixth grade felt gradual and nurturing, where, maybe, she could hold on to a few more moments of childhood before joining the iPhone-wielding, Starbucks-hanging world she was inevitably headed for.”
La Porte also interviewed Head of School Elizabeth English, who speaks to the increase in applications to Archer in recent years and our School’s no-phones policy in mitigating the impact of social media on girls: “It was not hard to execute because, as a girls school, we had a mission-serving decision before us.”
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The Archer School for Girls admits students of any race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation or other legally protected status to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation or other legally protected status in its hiring or in the administration of its educational policies and programs, admissions policies, financial aid programs or other school-administered programs.
The Archer School for Girls’ mission is to educate students in an environment specifically designed for girls. As such, the school will consider any candidate for admission who identifies as a girl. Once admitted to Archer, all students in good academic standing who abide by Archer’s code of conduct and who meet requirements for graduation will be eligible to receive an Archer diploma, regardless of any change in sexual identity or other legally protected status.
