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4 unusual facts about Ferry Hall School


Ferry Hall School

In the fall, Ferry Hall students joined Academy boys at their Mellody Farms campus and created the current coeducational institution Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall.

In the 1970s, headmaster John A. Bird began working with Lake Forest Academy to achieve coeducation: the schools had always been considered sister schools and, in recent years, had been offering opportunities to students of both schools.

Florence R. Sabin (Primary Department student 1879-1882.) Trailblazer for women in medical sciences.

Nathaniel Butler Jr.

From 1873 to 1876 he was associate principal of the Ferry Hall Female College.



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