The Nightingale-Bamford School
Key Facts
Last verified: 5/25/2026About
The Nightingale-Bamford School is an all-girls independent day school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan serving Kindergarten through Grade 12, founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. The school enrolls roughly 700 students in a unified building on East 92nd Street and is widely considered one of the most academically rigorous girls' schools in New York City. Its program is structured around traditional liberal arts with extensive offerings in classical and modern languages (including Latin and Greek), STEM, and the visual and performing arts. Nightingale competes in the AAIS and Ivy Preparatory School Leagues and has well-developed signature programs in interdisciplinary humanities, global studies, and the arts. Graduates routinely matriculate to highly selective colleges and universities.
Admission
- Test Required
- ISEE
- Interview
- Required
- Essay
- Required
- Recommendation Letters
- 2
- Deadline
- Fri Jan 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Rolling Admissions
- No
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Data Sources (2)
- Nightingale-Bamford AdmissionsData from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/25/2026
- Deep enrich iter6Data from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/27/2026