Discover Lawrenceville
Mission Statement
Through House and Harkness, Lawrenceville challenges a diverse community of promising young people to lead lives of learning, integrity, and high purpose. Our mission is to inspire the best in each to seek the best for all.
Define your passion, find your purpose, become empowered in your pursuits. Your Lawrenceville experience is your own, and our dynamic community will support you along the way.
A House where you grow in wisdom and character through caring mentors. A Harkness table where you listen and lead alongside peers from around the world. A heart that actively seeks a life of learning, integrity and high purpose.
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The Lawrenceville
Around the Harkness table
At Lawrenceville, Harkness doesn’t happen just around the table. Our students roll up their sleeves, ask questions, collaborate, and solve problems. The intellectual inquiry cultivated in our Harkness classrooms manifests in molecular biology research in partnership with a lab at Stanford University, rocketry projects in the Gruss Center for Art and Design, and construction of a life-size canoe during an interdisciplinary study of Boat Building and Botany.
The Hutchins Institute for Social Justice is an academic hub advancing social justice through scholarship, programming, and experiential learning.
Lawrenceville’s Harkness Travel Program aims to promote the development of responsible leadership, global citizenship, selfawareness, and interdisciplinary knowledge in our student travelers. Whether through service, scientific research, cultural exchange, artistic performance, historical inquiry, or engagement with the natural world, Harkness Travel offers students the opportunity to develop their personal and global awareness.
140 student clubs 815 students 9 scientific research lab partners in university and hospital settings
5 highly selective summer academic research programs
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When your House becomes a home
For generations of Lawrentians, the first question they ask on another is “What House were you in?” Whether it’s painting your face before House Olympics, doubling over with laughter during a Saturday night Feed, or knocking on the door of your Head of House and talking through a problem, at Lawrenceville, your House truly becomes a home. Our community of 18 residential Houses is a place where students form lifelong friendships, develop the values of cooperation, tolerance and leadership, and make memories that last a lifetime.
Teacher. Coach. Mentor.
Our teachers are committed to helping you discover and develop your intellectual passions, to think critically and creatively about the world around you, and to come up with solutions to the challenges and opportunities before you. You’ll find them everywhere - inspiring debate around our Harkness tables, driving creativity in our makerspaces and studios, creating vital community connections in our Houses, and coaching on our athletic fields. Nearly 90 percent of our teachers hold advanced degrees, and many make direct contributions to their disciplines as published scholars, scientific researchers, and leading innovators in education.
200+ years of close-knit community
8:1 student teacher ratio
700 acre campus 18 residential houses
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In the classroom, in co-curricular activities, and through our residential life program, students have the opportunity to learn about and appreciate the perspectives and identities of others, while developing their own. Lawrenceville is committed to inspiring students to live “lives of learning, integrity, and high purpose,” which we believe is enhanced by being in an environment that celebrates difference and is committed to belonging. Lawrenceville encourages students to become global citizens through its emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and belonging in its academic curriculum and community goals.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Arts and Culture
The arts at Lawrenceville seek to inspire and connect. Our lively and comprehensive performing arts department offers musical and dramatic theater, vocal and instrumental music, and dance. Our visual arts program challenges students to develop visual awareness and acuity through classes encompassing historical analysis and creation. We believe the arts are an essential element in broadening students’ approach to problem solving, to aesthetic enjoyment, to other people, and to life itself.
8 gallery spaces
838 seat proscenium theater
2 recital halls
15 grand pianos
2 acting studios
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Experiential Learning
At Lawrenceville, you will engage in learning experiences that are designed to deepen your thinking and understanding while building your confidence, creativity, and initiative. We believe in “learning by doing,” whether you are in the science lab, at the farm, on the ropes course, participating in educational travel programs, or designing your own independent study. These are just a few of the many opportunities you will have to apply learning to real-life experiences.
Sustainability
Gruss Center for Art and Design
30 acres of the Big Red Farm
25,000 panel solar farm, generating over 9 million kilowatt hours of renewable power
3 greenhouses
If you can imagine it, you can create it at the Gruss Center for Art and Design (GCAD). Lawrenceville’s makerspace includes a fabrication lab, digital design rooms, and a large flexible project room for ideation and rapid prototyping. Whether building a guitar from scratch, creating an app to help a local nonprofit, or launching a handcrafted rocket, or simply trying something new, GCAD gives you the freedom and support to experiment and grow.
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Drawing on the legacy of alumnus and renowned ecologist Aldo Leopold (Class of 1905), sustainable living is woven into the fabric of Lawrenceville’s identity. From student-driven farming and ecological restoration internships to campus water quality monitoring and carbon reduction planning, the school motto “Virtue Ever Green” is a way of life.
18 athletic fields
12 court tennis complex
Big Red Athletics
Big Red spirit radiates whether you play three varsity sports, represent your House intramural team, or deck yourself out in red and black to cheer for your classmates. Our premier interscholastic and intramural competition dates back centuries and is bolstered by a comprehensive co-curricular and fitness program that builds character, instills team values, and fosters a life-long commitment to positive physical and emotional habits. Our three-term sports requirement gives students the chance to participate in a variety of options, developing citizenship and leadership, sportsmanship and fair play, and relentless pursuit of excellence.
Excellence. Spirit. Teamwork.
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Featuring more than 70 teams, including 32 varsity teams across 21 interscholastic sports; as well as intramurals and recreational options, Lawrenceville’s athletic program is a true extension of the House and Harkness learning experience. We are equal parts athleticism, intelligence, and passion, and we demonstrate humility and a commitment to teamwork. Big Red spirit extends well beyond the field, permeating our lives as Lawrentians for decades to come.
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Athletics. Dining. Recreation.
Tsai Field House is a community hub that reflects the spirit of House, Harkness, and Heart – the unity of House life, the diverse voices of the Harkness table, and the Heart that defines a Lawrentian. Phase I opened in fall 2022 and includes a pool, hockey rink, and dining hall. Phase II of this 250,000 square foot facility will open in winter 2024, and includes gymnasiums, squash courts, an indoor track and arena, wrestling room, and community fitness center.
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Photo by Jeremy Bittermann
400-meter outdoor track & field complex
Big Red Park sport court, sand volleyball, pickle ball, lawn activities
aquatics facility with hydraulic movable floor
turf complex for boys’ and girls’ sports
Health and Wellness
Every student has access to a robust support system - from our Dean of Campus Wellbeing who applies a holistic, systems-based approach to all facets of student wellness, to our athletic trainers who provide comprehensive healthcare to our student-athletes, to our nurse practitioners who encourage proper nutrition. Our 24-hour Al Rashid Health and Wellness Center provides both in-patient and out-patient services, including general health counseling, mental health counseling and assessment, crisis intervention and support, medical evaluations, first aid and treatment of illness or injury, post-operative care, drug and alcohol education, and more.
Religious Life is visible and vibrant, designed so students can deepen their own faith and develop understanding and respect for the beliefs, traditions, and practices of others.
In an effort to further cultivate steadiness in mind and spirit, Lawrenceville also offers an array of restorative activities, including meditation, yoga, and opportunities for spiritual reflection.
College Matriculation
Colleges with 5 or more enrollments for the Classes of 2019-2023
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Amherst College 6 Babson College 9 Bates College 7 Boston College 16 Boston University 10 Bowdoin College ................................... 5 Brown University 22 Bucknell University 8 Carnegie Mellon .................................. 13 Claremont McKenna 6 Colby College 13 Colgate University .............................. 15 Columbia University 26 Cornell University 32 Dartmouth College 17 Davidson College 10 Dickinson College 7 Duke University 23 Fordham University 7 Franklin & Marshall 7 Georgetown University 41 Hamilton College 7 Harvard University 26 Indiana University 6 Johns Hopkins University .................... 10 Lafayette College 7 Lehigh University 30 Massachusetts Institute of Tech. ........... 9 Middlebury College 11 New York University 46 Northeastern University 15 Northwestern University 15 Penn State University 6 Princeton University 39 Purdue University 6 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5 Rutgers University 7 Southern Methodist University 12 Stanford University 11 Syracuse University 10 The University of Edinburgh 6 Trinity College 7 Tufts University 23 Tulane University of Louisiana ..............11 Union College 5 United States Military Academy 7 United States Naval Academy 5 University of California (Berkeley) 10 University of Chicago 21 University of Miami 13 University of Michigan 11 U. North Carolina - Chapel Hill 7 University of Pennsylvania 40 University of Richmond 7 University of Southern California 19 University of St Andrews 7 University of Virginia (Main Campus) 13 University of Wisconsin (Madison) 11 Villanova University 9 Wake Forest University........................ 20 Washington and Lee University 6 Washington University in St. Louis 10 Wesleyan University ............................ 10 Williams College 8 Yale University 25
Hop on the train to catch a Broadway show with your classmates, head to Philadelphia to check out the historical sites, join the school bus trip to visit the monuments of Washington D.C., or head to nearby Princeton for college-town vibes.
• Five minutes from Princeton
• 40 miles north of Philadelphia
• 55 miles south of New York City
Our 700-acre campus is in the heart of the village of Lawrenceville, steps away from Main Street. Grab a slice from TJ’s Pizza, get your fix at Starbucks, or meet friends at the Melba Ice Creamery ice cream shop.
Office of Admission | 2500 Main Street, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648 www.lawrenceville.org/admission | 800-735-2030 | admission@lawrenceville.org
The Lawrenceville School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information or physical or mental disabilities in the administration of its admission and scholarship aid programs.
