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Founded in 1921 by Elisabeth Irwin, LREI is an independent, progressive school serving children in grades pre-Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade in New York, NY. Our school is made up of 650 students with a student/faculty ratio of 7:1. We have two campuses, 272 Sixth Avenue, for our Lower School and Middle School, and 40 Charlton Street, for our High School.
LREI Mission Statement:
A leader in progressive education since 1921, LREI teaches children to be independent thinkers who work together to solve complex problems. Students graduate from our diverse community as active participants in our democratic society, with the creativity, integrity, and courage to bring meaningful change to the world.
LREI's History:
In the early 1900s, Elisabeth Irwin, John Dewey and other progressive educators developed a new educational approach based on active learning instead of passive absorption of facts. “The complacent formalism of schools, its uncritical and therefore uncreative spirit, must be replaced by an honest hospitality to experimentation,” Irwin wrote.
Elisabeth Irwin founded the Little Red School in 1921 as an alternative public elementary school. Parents and students loved the new dynamic learning community. It was an exciting place to learn, with a palpable spirit of curiosity, creativity and challenge. However, during the Depression, the Board of Education could not afford to keep the school open.
Parents pledged their own resources, establishing Little Red School House as an independent elementary school. In 1941, the program expanded to include a high school at 40 Charlton Street. For nearly 70 years, we have been a pre-K through twelfth grade school: LREI.
LREI remains faithful to the spirit of its founder — testing new ideas, finding new variations on tried and true principles, and challenging our students to discuss what Elisabeth Irwin called “possible new truths.” Our students are active learners and thoughtful decision-makers. Our faculty remains involved in every aspect of our program, and works together with enthusiasm and astuteness to conceive of fresh responses to students’ needs.
Learn more about our founder and our philosophy at www.lrei.org.
LREI Mission Statement:
A leader in progressive education since 1921, LREI teaches children to be independent thinkers who work together to solve complex problems. Students graduate from our diverse community as active participants in our democratic society, with the creativity, integrity, and courage to bring meaningful change to the world.
LREI's History:
In the early 1900s, Elisabeth Irwin, John Dewey and other progressive educators developed a new educational approach based on active learning instead of passive absorption of facts. “The complacent formalism of schools, its uncritical and therefore uncreative spirit, must be replaced by an honest hospitality to experimentation,” Irwin wrote.
Elisabeth Irwin founded the Little Red School in 1921 as an alternative public elementary school. Parents and students loved the new dynamic learning community. It was an exciting place to learn, with a palpable spirit of curiosity, creativity and challenge. However, during the Depression, the Board of Education could not afford to keep the school open.
Parents pledged their own resources, establishing Little Red School House as an independent elementary school. In 1941, the program expanded to include a high school at 40 Charlton Street. For nearly 70 years, we have been a pre-K through twelfth grade school: LREI.
LREI remains faithful to the spirit of its founder — testing new ideas, finding new variations on tried and true principles, and challenging our students to discuss what Elisabeth Irwin called “possible new truths.” Our students are active learners and thoughtful decision-makers. Our faculty remains involved in every aspect of our program, and works together with enthusiasm and astuteness to conceive of fresh responses to students’ needs.
Learn more about our founder and our philosophy at www.lrei.org.
Overview
Employees
51-200
Phone
+1 212-477-5316
Founded date
1921
Mentions in press and media 11
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| Sep 8, 2021 | Irwin Secures $20M Series A Funding to Modernize Capital Markets Software | |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Steven Johnson at Elisabeth Irwin High School Next Monday | All of my kids have attended Elisabeth Irwin High School in NYC. The school was founded by Elisabeth Irwin 90 years ago. In commemoration of the 90th anniversary, they are doing a speaker series with noted thinkers, artists, authors, and ac... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Proud Papa | Post Game Celebration Originally uploaded by fredwilson. I used to post a lot about my girls’ basketball games. It’s one of the great pleasures to be able to watch your kids play team sports. As part of my effort to be a little less transpa... |
| Feb 5, 2006 | A Great Coffeehouse | Our kids go to a great school in downtown Manhattan called Little Red Elisabeth Irwin (LREI). The high school, known as Elisabeth Irwin, does an event every couple months called The Coffeehouse. It’s basically an open mic night for the comm... |
| Jul 14, 2005 | Mandarin Chinese in Schools | A reader of this blog sent me an email yesterday to tell me that his wife Kerri Lyon, who is a reporter for CBS news, did a piece on kids learning Mandarin Chinese in school. He told me that my kids’ school Little Red/Elizabeth Irwin was pr... |
| Jan 30, 2005 | Four Fellas (continued) | Well the boys made their debut on the stage last night to a packed house at the LREI Coffee House. They were the fourth act to go onstage and their introduction brought loud cheers from the friendly crowd. They’d done all of two rehearsals ... |
| Jan 20, 2005 | LREI 8th Grade Girls Basketball | With the Jets out of the playoffs, the Knicks looking like they are headed for another losing year, and baseball season months away, where am I getting my sports fix these days? Right here in Greenwich Village (and throughout the independen... |
| Jan 9, 2005 | Middle School Play | We spent much of this weekend watching Jessica and her friends perform as the Little Red Elizabeth Irwin Shakespeare Company in a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged!. It was quite funny. It’s all 37 plays in le... |
| Nov 2, 2004 | Voting 2004: The Kids | We took our kids with us this morning. They didn’t love the 30 minute wait, but they were pretty good about it. When we got to the booth, The Gotham Gal took Josh in with her and he got to see how we vote and he pulled the lever. The girls ... |
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FAQ about LREI
When was LREI founded?
LREI was founded in 1921.
What has the press written about LREI?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning LREI, among them “Irwin Secures $20M Series A Funding to Modernize Capital Markets Software” (Sep 8, 2021) and “Steven Johnson at Elisabeth Irwin High School Next Monday” (Apr 17, 2012).
Is LREI still active?
Yes, LREI is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 9, 2021.