New York Interschool is a consortium of eight Manhattan independent schools known for their high academic standards, outstanding teaching, and traditions of quality.

 

 
 


We run curricular and extracurricular programs that serve students, teachers, administrators, trustees, and parents and link our schools to the greater New York City community. 

 

 

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Mood Disorders and Teenage Girls

Why they are more vulnerable than boys, and what signs and symptoms you should look for.

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Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kids' Phone

A social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.

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Frost Valley Retreat

The Frost Valley 10th grade trip, an annual two-day retreat to the Frost Valley YMCA Camp in Claryville, New York, took place in January 2025. Students from our single sex schools - Brearley, Browning, Collegiate, Nightingale and Spence - have an opportunity to experience a "larger campus" and get to know their classmates in other schools in a coed setting. About 300 tenth graders, 40 faculty members and the Interschool staff all take part.

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Spring Bird-a-thon

Interschool hosted its first Bird-a-Thon with the Wild Bird Fund in Central Park. Students from all divisions, faculty, and families joined us to search for dozens of species of birds - including rose-breasted grosbeak, blackburnian warbler, and red-tailed hawks. Everyone had a wonderful time connecting with people from other schools and remembering Flaco, the wild owl, whose life and journey in Central Park inspired this event.

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