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Ethical Culture Fieldston School
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Key Facts
Last verified: 5/27/2026Location
New York, New York County, NY. Approximate area — the exact campus location isn’t verified yet.
About
Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) is a coeducational PK-12 progressive independent school founded in 1878 by Felix Adler as part of the Ethical Culture movement. The Ethical Culture Lower School (PK-5) sits at 33 Central Park West on the Upper West Side, while Fieldston Lower, Fieldston Middle (6-8), and Fieldston Upper (9-12) occupy an 18-acre wooded campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The school's progressive program emphasizes ethics, social justice, and inquiry-based learning, with no class rank and a narrative-feedback model in lower grades. The Upper School offers a broad set of electives in humanities and STEM.
Admission
- Test Required
- ISEE
- Interview
- Required
- Essay
- Required
- Recommendation Letters
- 2
- Rolling Admissions
- No
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Data Sources (3)
- ECFS AdmissionsData from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/27/2026
- Deep enrich iter5Data from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/27/2026
- Collected: 6/6/2026