Emma Willard School

Emma Willard School is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women in Troy, New York, on Mount Ida. It offers grades 9 to 12 and postgraduate coursework. The school began as the Middlebury Female Seminary, which Emma Willard founded in 1814, and it moved to Troy in 1821 as the Troy Female Seminary, an institution meant to give young women the same advanced study in mathematics, classical languages and the sciences that men received. Its early graduates included the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the seminary trained many women who became teachers. It was renamed in Willard's honor and moved to a new campus on Mount Ida in 1910. Today it keeps small classes, an independent study program called Practicum, and a fair trade school program.