The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, known as "Fieldston", is a private "independent" school in New York City and a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. It has about 1600 students and a staff of 400 people (as of 2004), led by Dr. Damian J. Fernandez, who was announced as new Head of School in November 2010, and began July 2011.
In the words of its founder, Felix Adler: "The ideal of the school is to develop individuals who will be competent to change their environment to greater conformity with moral ideals."
The school consists of two lower schools (Pre-K to 5th grade): Ethical Culture (known as "Ethical" or "Midtown") located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Fieldston Lower (known as "Lower"), located on the Riverdale campus in the Bronx, both of which feed into a middle school (grades 6-8) and an upper school (Forms III to VI, grades 9-12) - The Fieldston School - also located on the Bronx campus. Ethical Culture is headed by Rob Cousins, Fieldston Lower is headed by George Burns, and the Fieldston School is headed by Laura Danforth. The Middle School is headed by Kevin Jacobson. Tuition and fees for each of the schools were $37,825 for the 2011-12 year.
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