About

  • Our Community Our Community
    Through a balance of rigor and support, our students become confident, successful individuals who are better prepared to meet future challenges, and continue the journey that began here at Shipley.
  • Our Colleagues Our Colleagues
    Our small classes nurture individual learning. With an average of 15 students per class and a student-to-teacher ratio of 7:1, every student has access to the teachers’ time and attention—and every teacher is able to support and challenge their students as individuals.
  • Our Diverse Community Our Diverse Community
    Shipley is committed to preparing its students to be leaders in a global society and to sustaining a vibrant, inclusive, and caring multicultural community. The goal of raising cultural awareness and understanding is reflected in many areas of school life.
The Shipley School is an independent, coeducational day school in Bryn Mawr for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students. Through our commitment to educational excellence, we develop within each student a love of learning and a desire for compassionate participation in the world.

Through a strong college-preparatory curriculum in the humanities and sciences, our school encourages curiosity, creativity, and respect for intellectual effort. Shipley upholds and promotes moral integrity, a sense of personal achievement and worth, and concern for others at school and in the larger community.
When you focus solely on the end product, you miss the steps that make a student stronger along the way. Important lessons emerge from everyday challenges. Lifelong passions develop in unexpected ways. There’s so much intellectual and personal growth to be explored before an outcome is reached—and that’s why we focus on the journey.
We teach with the individual in mind, so all types of learners are able to thrive. While students may experience our curriculum in unique ways, a Shipley education remains rooted in a fundamental idea: We believe in a rigorous educational standard, one designed to foster not only creativity and individual thinking, but a sense of preparedness and emotional development that equips students for success. 

School Song

From afar as strangers came we
With our aims of youth.
Love and friendship do we owe thee;
Friends we are in truth.

Hail our colors! Speed them onward!
Shipley, hail to thee!
Green for hope we always cherish,
Blue for loyalty.

Worthy standards hast thou brought us;
Steadfast will we be.
Truth and honor hast thou taught us;
Thanks we give to thee.

Hail our colors! Speed them onward!
Shipley, hail to thee!
Green for hope we always cherish,
Blue for loyalty.

Music: “Annie Lisle,” William H. Goodyear
814 Yarrow Street
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Phone: 610-525-4300
Fax: 610-525-5082
The Shipley School is a private, coeducational day school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students, located in Bryn Mawr, PA. Through our commitment to educational excellence, we develop within each student a love of learning and a desire for compassionate participation in the world.