Tower Hill School


Tower Hill School is a private college preparatory school in Wilmington, Delaware, offering instruction for pre-school through 12th grade.

History

Tower Hill was founded in 1919. The school is situated at the high point of Wilmington's neighborhood, The Highlands, where the dominant landmark is Rockford Tower, erected in 1901 to control the city's water supply. Tower Hill, in London, is the birthplace of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, who landed in Delaware, in 1682.

Recognition

The school is a member of the Delaware Independent School Conference and fields 23 competitive varsity sports.
The school offered 2,000,000 a year of need-based financial aid to 28% of its students for the 2016-2017 school year.
Elizabeth “Bessie” Cromwell Speers currently serves as the Tower Hill's head of school, having been selected to be headmaster starting the 2015-2016 school year.
The Wall Street Journal ranked Tower Hill 24th in the nation and 1st in Delaware, in percentage of students attending eight top colleges.
Tower Hill School is ranked 47th in the nation for best private day schools.

Notable alumni

In 2014, former President of the school Christopher Wheeler was found guilty and sentenced to 50 years in prison for dealing in child pornography. However, the sentence was overturned in 2016 after the Delaware Supreme Court found that the search warrants used to search his residence and office were un-Constitutionally broad.