Warren Metropolitan Youth Academy for the Gifted



Location: New York, NY, USA

Founded: 1822

Headmaster: Samuel Yewridge

History
The Warren Metropolian Youth Academy for the Gifted is the premier pre-magical school in North America. Warren's being a pre-magic schooling academy under the guise of an elite muggle school for the gifted, it was the first school of its kind in North America.

Arthur Warren and Joshua Combe, both experienced teachers, recognized as soon as they met that their strengths were complementary. Joining Warren's warmth and enthusiasm with Combe's rigor and intellectual ambition, they created a school for magical children that educated the mind and heart together.

Although Warren began teaching at the Salem Institute around 1791, it wasn't until he met Combe that Warren's School was founded in 1822; classes were held in two townhouses at 19 and 20 East 93rd Street. In 1929, the school became officially known as The Warren Metropolitan Youth Academy for the Gifted, and that same year the board had a new building in place of the original townhouses built.

Since the school was founded, they have graduated almost 2,000 alumnae, expanded their building twice, and adopted new disciplines and means of teaching. But throughout it all, they have retained the same guiding principles that Warren and Combe instilled in those first students: truth, friendship, and loyalty.

Curriculum
Students enroll between the ages of 4-6 and take a standardized course load of Language Arts, Math, Science, Muggle History, Basic Magic Formulations, and Life Skills. Students attend Warren's until they recieve their letters to attend proper magic school at the age of eleven. All classes are segregated by gender, except the PreK class.

Headmasters

 * 1822-1851: Arthur Warren
 * 1852-1859: Joshua Combe
 * 1860-1881: William Cooper
 * 1882-1927: Lerent Magnan
 * 1928-1941: Robert Warren
 * 1942-1957: William Yewridge
 * 1958-1966: Colin Corven
 * 1967-1981: Lent Lacher
 * 1982-1989: Willa Warren
 * 1990-2002: Charlene Copperpot
 * 2002-Present: Samuel Yewridge

Current Teachers

 * Michelle Marble - PreK
 * Samantha Cooper - K
 * Lindsey Abbott - K
 * Susan Maplebee - 1st
 * Marcel Marble -1st
 * Jacob White - 2nd
 * Luan Warren - 2nd
 * Roger Allen - 3rd
 * Beverly Hanscome - 3rd
 * Agatha Smithinson - 4th
 * Rebecca Ash - 4th
 * Andrew Comtoise - 5th
 * Barbra Lozier - 5th


 * Christy Cooper - Squib Specialist


 * Larry Clemint - PE
 * Belinda Zryodvie - Music
 * Pearl Jones - Art