Brown School is a private, nondenominational elementary and middle school in Schenectady, New York in the United States. It provides instruction for about 300 students in grades one through eight. It also offers nursery and kindergarten programs. The school's mission is “to inspire each student to love learning while striving for academic excellence.”
In September 1893, Miss Helen “Nellie” Churchill Brown opened the Brown School in the front two ...
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Brown School is a private, nondenominational elementary and middle school in Schenectady, New York in the United States. It provides instruction for about 300 students in grades one through eight. It also offers nursery and kindergarten programs. The school's mission is “to inspire each student to love learning while striving for academic excellence.”
In September 1893, Miss Helen “Nellie” Churchill Brown opened the Brown School in the front two rooms of her family home at 237 Liberty Street, with 12 pupils, age 8-11.
During the early 1900s, Miss Brown’s School grew quickly and moved several times, to Park Avenue, 1230 Rugby Road, and eventually in 1906 to 1184 Rugby Road within the G.E. Realty Plot. A building was constructed on land donated by the Schenectady Realty Company, as part of it’s planned community. For many years, Brown School primarily educated children who lived in the G.E. Realty Plot. The area behind the school, an old quarry known affectionately as the “Dump”, was...
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