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|grades = K-12
|president =
|head_of_school = FrankBill JE. Carnabuci IIIKuhn
|dean =
|faculty = 70<ref name="petersons">[http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/instvc.asp?inunid=287&sponsor=1 The Birch Wathen Lenox School – School Overview]. Peterson's. March 12, 2007.</ref>
|staff =
|students =
|enrollment = 500 (total)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?p=105 |title=New York State Association of Independent Schools: Birch Wathen Lenox School |publisher=Nysais.org |access-date= |accessdate=January 8, 2013}}</ref><br/> 175 (grades 9–12)<ref name="petersons"/>
|athletics = All major high school varsity sports
|colors = [[GreenBlue]], [[White]], and [[Gold (color)|GoldWhite]]
|mascot = Lion
|campus_type = Brownstone
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The '''Birch Wathen Lenox School''' is a [[New York City]] [[college preparatory]] [[K-12]] school on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]. BWLBirch Wathen Lenox comprises approximately 500 students from all around New York City. The Birch Wathen Lenox School is one of 322 [[independent school]]s located in the city.
 
==History==
Birch Wathen Lenox was created in 1991 through the merger of Thethe Birch Wathen School (founded in 1921 by Louise Birch and Edith Wathen), and The Lenox School (founded in 1916 by [[Jessica Garretson Finch]]).
 
The Lenox School had been an all-girls school until 1974, when it went co-educational.
 
Between 1962 and 1989, Birch Wathen was located in the [[Herbert N. Straus House]], an ornate French-style building at 9 East 71st Street across from the [[Frick Collection]]. Built in 1933 by architect [[Horace Trumbauer]], it was purchased as a private residence in 1989 by [[Les Wexner]] who later sold it to financier [[Jeffrey Epstein]].
 
==Sports==
Birch Wathen Lenox fields teams in soccer, volleyball, swimming, basketball, baseball, softball, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, hockey and hockeyroblotics.
 
Athletic teams play under the auspices of the [[Independent Schools Athletic League (New York)]] or the Girls Independent School Athletic League, which are leagues in the NYSAISAA (New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association).
 
The robotics team plays in the [[FIRST Robotics Competition|First Robotics Competition]], more commonly referred to as FRC.
 
==Notable alumni==
 
*[[Alfred A. Knopf Jr.|Alfred A Knopf, Jr.]], publisher<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908176194|title=The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire|last=Claridge|first=Laura|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2016|isbn=9780374114251|edition=First|location=New York|pages=68|oclc=908176194}}</ref>▼
*[[Kathy Acker]], writer<ref>{{Cite book |last=McBride |first=Jason |title=Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker |date= |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-9821-1703-0 |edition=1st |location=New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi}}</ref>
*[[Barbara Walters]], journalist, writer, and media personality<ref name="New York Magazine">{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/28519/index1.html |title=Can Barbara Walters's Career Survive Rosie and Donald's War?- New York Magazine |publisher=Nymag.com |date=March 5, 2007 |accessdate=January 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name="New York Times">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/books/and-now-back-to-you-barbara.html?exprod=permalink&partner=permalink |title=And Now Back To You, Barbara |publisher=New York Times |date=March 25, 1990 |accessdate=January 8, 2013}}</ref>▼
*[[Hope Cooke]], last Queen of Sikkim
*[[Barbara Costikyan]], food writer
*[[Joel Crothers]] (BW '58), actor
*[[Viola Essen]], dancer
*[[Judith Krantz]] (BW '44), novelist<ref>Ruark, Liz (February 13, 2001). "[http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/krantz.html Person of the Week: Judith Krantz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901234531/http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/krantz.html |date=September 1, 2006 }}". Wellesley College.</ref>▼
*[[Robert Gottlieb]], president of Knopf Publishing.
*[[John Katzman]], edupreneur, CEO of Noodle
▲*[[Alfred A. Knopf Jr.|Alfred A Knopf, Jr.]], publisher<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908176194|title=The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire|last=Claridge|first=Laura|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2016|isbn=9780374114251|edition=First|location=New York|pages=68|oclc=908176194}}</ref>
▲*[[Judith Krantz]] (BW '44), novelist<ref>Ruark, Liz (February 13, 2001). "[http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/krantz.html Person of the Week: Judith Krantz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901234531/http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/krantz.html |date=September 1, 2006 }}". Wellesley College.</ref>
* [[Wendy Mogel]], psychologist and author<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/26/archives/marriage-announcement-2-no-title.html|title =Wendy Mogel Is Married to Michael Tolkin |work=New York Times |date=June 26, 1978 |access-date=October 14, 2024}}</ref>
*[[Murray Rothbard]] (BW '42), Founder of [[anarcho-capitalism]]
*[[Edwin Schlossberg]], designer <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/02/style/caroline-bouvier-kennedy-to-wed-edwin-schlossberg.html |title=Caroline Bouvier Kennedy To Wed Edwin Schlossberg |publisherwork=New York Times |date=March 2, 1986 |accessdateaccess-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Mary Stolz]] (BW '36), novelist<ref name="biosketch">[http://www.ghslibrary.org/mary_stolz.htm Mary Stolz Biographical Sketch] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714014059/http://www.ghslibrary.org/mary_stolz.htm |date=July 14, 2007 }}.</ref>
*[[Gardiner L. Tucker]] (BW '43), former director of [[IBM Research]], Assistant [[Secretary of State (United States)|Secretary of State]], Assistant [[Secretary General of NATO]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gardiner Luttrell Tucker Obituary (2021) New York Times |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/gardiner-tucker-obituary?id=31708768 |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref>
▲*[[Barbara Walters]], journalist, writer, and media personality<ref name="New York Magazine">{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/28519/index1.html |title=Can Barbara Walters's Career Survive Rosie and Donald's War?- New York Magazine |publisher=Nymag.com |date=March 5, 2007 |accessdateaccess-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name="New York Times">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/books/and-now-back-to-you-barbara.html?exprod=permalink&partner=permalink |title=And Now Back To You, Barbara |publisherwork=New York Times |date=March 25, 1990 |accessdateaccess-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>
 
==References==
;Notes
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*[http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/18748 Birch Wathen Lenox School] at Private School Review
*[http://www.buntingandlyon.com/detail.asp?ID=711 The Birch Wathen Lenox School] listing in the Bunting & Lyon Blue Book
*[[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation]]
*[http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-1933-herbert-straus-mansion-no-9.html Architectural essay] on the midcentury BW building.
*[http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/03/1902-daniel-g-reid-carriage-house-no.html Architectural essay] on the midcentury Lenox building.
 
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