Trinity School is a private

Private school

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, preparatory

University-preparatory school

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, co-educational day school

Day school

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 for grades K-12

K-12

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 located in New York City

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, USA

United States

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, and a member of both the New York Interschool

New York Interschool

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 and the Ivy Preparatory School League

Ivy Preparatory School League

The Ivy Preparatory School League, like the Ivy League for universities, was originally an athletic conference, not a scholastic one, for a group of New York City, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk county university-preparatory schools: Hackley School, Tarrytown, Trinity School, Manhattan, Riverdale...

. Founded in 1709 in the Tower of the old Trinity Church

Trinity Church, New York

Trinity Church at 79 Broadway, Lower Manhattan, is a historic, active parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York...

 at Broadway and Wall Street, the school is the fifth oldest in the United States and the oldest continually operational school in New York City.

In April 2010, Forbes Magazine named Trinity the best college preparatory school in the United States.
Trinity School was founded by William Huddleston

William Huddleston

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, working under the aegis of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in 1709 as a charity school for Trinity Church

Trinity Church, New York

Trinity Church at 79 Broadway, Lower Manhattan, is a historic, active parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York...

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