Poly Prep Country Day School
9216 7th Avenue | also 1 Poly Prep Drive | Bay Ridge | built 2003
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- 1917
Poly Prep's Country Day School opens its Dyker Heights campus under headmaster Joseph Dana Allen
The Dyker Heights campus of Poly Prep, the Brooklyn school that began in 1854 as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, opened in 1917. Joseph Dana Allen was its first headmaster and led the Country Day School until 1949. The campus now houses the middle and upper schools, for grades 5 through 12.
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- 1977
Poly Prep admits its first girls, beginning a shift to co-education
Under headmaster William M. Williams, Poly Prep began moving toward co-education in 1977, when it first admitted girls. The first co-ed class graduated in 1979. The school had been a boys' school since its founding in 1854.
“…the school began the transition to co-education in 1977 when it first admitted girls, graduating its first co-ed class in 1979.”
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- 2012
Poly Prep settles a lawsuit over abuse by its former head football coach for $10 million
A federal suit filed in 2009 concerned sexual assaults on students by Philip Foglietta, the school's head football coach from 1966 to 1991. When his contract was not renewed in 1991, the school announced that he had decided to retire and did not mention the abuse. The case ended in a $10 million settlement in December 2012.
“The suit was settled for $10 million in December 2012.”
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- 2014
The school issues a public apology for decades of abuse
On February 21, 2014, Poly Prep put out what the Wall Street Journal described as a sweeping apology for the abuse, and for years of failing to respond properly when victims came forward. Headmaster David Harman and board chairman Scott Smith resigned soon afterward. A permanent memorial to the victims was placed in a prominent spot on the campus.
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