The Woodward School is a school for girls in grades 6 - 12 and was founded in 1894.[citation needed] Located in
Quincy, Massachusetts, near
Quincy Center, it is the only private
high school in the city.[2] On top of its core syllabus, the school offers AP courses, Latin, French, Spanish, Visual Arts, Rhetoric, Computer Science Music, Theatre, and a internship program for high school students.
History
The Woodward School was founded by Dr. Ebenezer Woodward, a prominent physician and cousin of
John Adams. When Dr. Woodward died in 1869, his will established a trust fund to create and maintain a girls' school equivalent to the boys-only
Adams Academy. The town of Quincy (which became a city in 1888) was named trustee of the fund, and was given 25 years to build the school.[2][3] Management of the school was allocated in perpetuity to the town's
selectmen. The school building was designed by E. G. Thayer in the
Queen Anne style, with
clapboard siding and a
slate roof. It was built by Stephen Loxon and completed in 1894, just short of the 25-year deadline.[4] It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places as Woodward Institute on November 13, 1989, reference number 89001954.
