Saint Ann's School

129 Pierrepont Street | Brooklyn Heights | built 1906

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1966
Saint Ann's Church buys the former Crescent Athletic Club House, which becomes the school's main building
The school opened in 1965 in the basement of St. Ann's Episcopal Church, with 63 students and seven teachers. The following year the church purchased the Crescent Athletic Club House, designed by Frank Freeman, and it has been the school's main building ever since. Stanley Bosworth served as the first headmaster.
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1982
Saint Ann's School separates from the church after receiving a state charter
In 1982 the school formally disaffiliated from St. Ann's Church, having been granted a charter by New York State's Board of Regents. It had operated under the church's vestry since its founding in 1965.
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2004
Wall Street Journal survey ranks Saint Ann's first in the country for Ivy League enrollment
A 2004 Wall Street Journal survey rated the school the top high school in the country for the share of graduating seniors who enrolled in Ivy League and other highly selective colleges. The paper listed it among the top 50 high schools again in late 2007, and in 2012 the New York Observer ranked it first in New York City.
“In a 2004 survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal, Saint Ann's was rated the number one high school in the country…”
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