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Purnell School

1963 establishments in New JerseyBedminster, New JerseyBoarding schools in New JerseyEducational institutions established in 1963Girls' schools in New Jersey
Middle States Commission on Secondary SchoolsPrivate high schools in Somerset County, New Jersey

The Purnell School was a progressive private all-girls boarding high school located in Pottersville, within Bedminster, New Jersey, about an hour and one-half west of New York City, and two hours north of Philadelphia. Purnell School was a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. The school was accredited in 1973 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. The school officially closed following the 2020–21 academic school year citing "“challenges related to the competitive landscape’’.As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 57 students and 15 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 3.8:1. The school's student body was 61.4% (35) White, 26.3% (15) Black, 7.0% (4) Hispanic and 5.3% (3) Asian.

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