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The Brearley School is an all-girls' private school in New York City, USA. It is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and is a member of the New York Interschool. The school is divided into the Lower School (K-4), Middle School (5-8) and Upper School (9-12). There is a total of approximately 670 students enrolled in grades K-12, with about fifty students in a class.

Founded in 1884 by Samuel Brearley, the school is still, despite its relative youth, considered the sister school of The Collegiate School, the oldest educational institution in North America. The Brearley School has moved three times during its history and is currently located in a twelve-story building on East 83rd street in Manhattan, overlooking the East River.

Academically, Brearley has a reputation for being the most challenging girls' school in the nation. [1][2], The curriculum is based on the study of the liberal arts, and is designed to give students a solid background in all disciplines. The English and History departments are especially strong: they focus on the development of writing skills (in Middle School) and analysis (in Upper School). All students are required to study at least one language, and most take two. Languages currently taught are Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Greek.^{[citation needed]} In the fall of 2004, the school piloted a new program that incorporated the use of iPods in language classes, allowing students to download portable audio lessons. The Brearley School also places considerable emphasis on music, art, and drama.

"Within a highly articulated 13-year curriculum, and with a 7:1 student-faculty ratio, teaching methods are varied, flexible and pragmatic, taking into account individual patterns of development and ways of learning. [Their] program is designed to challenge [their]eager, able students intellectually, and to give each one the opportunity to gain competence, self-reliance and self-knowledge through academic achievement as well as experience in the visual and performing arts, sports, community service and a wide variety of extracurricular activities." (From The Brearley School's website; http://www.brearley.org )

A separate building, the "Field House" on East 87th Street, has facilities for physical education and athletics including track, soccer, basketball, tennis, badminton, volleyball, swimming, gymnastics, cross country, squash, lacrosse and field hockey. In 2005, both Varsity Volleyball and Varsity Cross Country won State Championships. Brearley's Varsity Cross Country team won the New York State Championship again in the fall of 2006, and Brearley's Junior Varsity Volleyball team remained undefeated throughout its season, and won its tournament in 2007.

Brearley's school/team colors are Red and White.

• Student Government
• Athletics Association
• Diversity Committee
• Service Committee
• Brearley Environmental Action Committee (BEAC)
• The Zephyr (Newspaper)
• The Beaver (Literary Magazine)
• Yearbook
• Model Congress
• Model United Nations
• Bridges to Learning (community outreach service club)
• Asian Awareness
• Flash (Photography club)
• RADAR (Religious Awareness Diversity And Respect)
• Robotics (Team Double X, the FIRST Competition, in conjunction with the Chapin School) website http://robotics.brearley.org/robotics/
• Political Awareness
• Film Club
• MATH TEAM
• Brearley Food and Cooking Club (BFCC)
• Art Club
• Debate Team
• Drama/Improv Club
• Tech Committee
• GASP (Gay and Straight Partnership)
• Classics Club
• Step Club
• Ella
• Umoja
• Anime Club
• Cryptography Club
• The Brearley Philosophers' Club (BPC) website http://webwiz.brearley.org/bpc
• Habitat for Humanity
• Science Alliance
• Harry Potter Society

• Elizabeth Fishel, journalist and writer, in 2000 published a book profiling 10 of her Brearley classmates from the class of '68, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became.
• Virginia Kneeland Frantz, pathologist, pioneer in the study of pancreatic tumors
• Téa Leoni, actress
• Kyra Sedgwick, Golden Globe winning actress
• Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903-76), philanthropist, daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, author, daughter of John F. Kennedy
• Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer
• Betsy Gotbaum, New York City Public Advocate
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
• Mary Rodgers, children's author and composer, daughter of composer Richard Rodgers
• Dorothy Schiff, publisher of The New York Post
• Kim Stolz, contestant on Cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model and MTV vj.
• Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist and daughter of Irving Berlin
• Jenny Bicks, screenwriter and television producer (Sex and the City, Men in Trees)
• Tonne Goodman, fashion director of American Vogue, former VP advertising Calvin Klein
• Abiola Abrams, feminist filmmaker, author, and television personality.
• Oona O'Neill Chaplin, daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor/director/producer director Charlie Chaplin.

• National Association of Independent Schools
• New York State Association of Independent Schools
• New York Interschool

• Education in New York City
• Official homepage: www.brearley.org
• Brearley's iPod Initiative [3]