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7 unusual facts about Wheeler School


Saint Philomena School

Graduates of St. Philomena's go on to attend private and public high schools in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts, including the Portsmouth Abbey School, Bishop Connolly High School, Bishop Stang High School, St. George's School, the Wheeler School, and Moses Brown School, amongst many others.

Thayer Street

Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island is a popular destination for students of the area's nearby schools of Brown University, Moses Brown School, Wheeler School, RISD, Providence College, Johnson & Wales University, and Rhode Island College.

Wheeler School

In 1887, Wheeler took a group of young women to Giverny, France for a summer of painting, art history and French.

These trips were repeated many times through the next two decades and link Wheeler to a number of American Impressionist artists as well as French Impressionist Claude Monet.

Nico Muhly - Noted contemporary Western classical music composer.

Trudy Coxe - CEO of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Former Environmental Secretary of Massachusetts and CEO of Save the Bay.

Wickenden Street

The street is surrounded by universities on the East Side of Providence's College Hill, including Brown University, RISD, Moses Brown School, & The Wheeler School.



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