Academics
The mission of The Baldwin School includes "developing talented girls into confident young women with vision, global understanding, and the competency to make significant and enduring contributions to the world. The school nurtures our students' passion for intellectual rigor in academics, creativity in the arts and competition in athletics, forming women capable of leading their generation while living balanced lives."
The Class of 2011 had 18 girls recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, National Latin Exam medalists, eight college athletes, Society of Women Engineers certificate holders, a community hero award winner and other accomplished young women. The average SATs for the class of 2011 were CR: 660, M: 660, WR:682 (2002 total). This was higher than any other school in the Philadelphia area.
Baldwin has an extremely high percentage of graduates majoring and working in math and science fields, about 1/3, much greater than the national average for women.
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“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)