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    Historical Timeline

    1872
    Dr. Julius Sachs (brother of Samuel Sachs a partner in the international banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Company) opens The Franklin School on 34th Street and Broadway within the Sachs Collegiate Institute.
    1874
    The Franklin School moves to 45th Street and Sixth Avenue.
    1876
    The growing Franklin School relocates again to 49th Street and 7th Avenue and for the first time occupies a whole building.
    1880
    The New York School of Languages is founded on 15 West 43rd Street as an academy of classical studies.
    1882
    The Franklin School moves to 38 West 59th Street.
    1888
    The New York School of Languages is renamed in honor of Timothy Dwight, President of Yale University, because many of the staunchest friends of the School are Yale Alumni.
    1896
    Dwight becomes part of the New York Preparatory School, whose principal is Emil E. Camerer.
    1901
    Dr. Sachs is appointed Professor of Education at Columbia University and is succeeded by Dr. Otto Koenig who makes Franklin well known among the leading colleges for men.
    1912
    Franklin changes location for the final time to 18 West 89th Street.
    1916
    Dwight moves for the fourth time to 72 Park Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets to accommodate its growth.
    1932
    In June, Dr. Koenig retires and faculty members Clifford W Hall and David P. Berenberg become headmasters at The Franklin School.
    1933
    The Franklin School establishes a student council.
    1941
    Full-day kindergarten tuition at Franklin is $150 per year. Junior and Senior tuition reaches $600.
    1951
    The Franklin School becomes co-educational.
    1953
    Dwight moves for the fifth time to 402 East 67th Street between First and York Avenues.
    1960
    Dwight starts “Committee on Student Honor.”
    1967
    The Dwight School becomes co-educational.
    1968
    The Brownstone at 17 West 88th Street is converted for use by The Franklin School.
    1972
    Chancellor Spahn and Sir Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College at Oxford University, found The Woodside Park School in London. Dwight becomes the first independent school in the United States to establish a permanent international campus.
    1974
    Dwight merges with the Bentley School to add elementary and middle school programs.
    1980
    Under Dr. Paul Beresford Hill’s Leadership, Franklin adopts the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program and changes its name to the Anglo-American School.
    1993
    Dwight merges with Anglo-American and relocates to 18 West 89th Street and acquires additional space in 291 Central Park West.
    2005
    With the opening of the Woodside Preschool on Riverside Boulevard, Dwight becomes the first school to offer the IB PYP Program ages 2-4.
    2007
    2007 Dwight completes The Quad, the new academic and social hub of the School. The new space signals more exciting changes ahead for Dwight. The adjoining building at 22 West 89th Street is acquired in July.
    2011
    Construction nears completion on Phase I of Dwight’s transformative brownstone renovation project. Phases I and II of this project will expand Dwight’s campus for grades 1-12 by 35% and upgrade 15% of the existing spaces.