Board Composition

The Park School Board Composition 

The Park School strives to build and sustain a Board membership that incorporates and reflects the skills, experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives of the greater Park community.  Candidates are considered and reviewed by the Committee on Trustees based on the needs of the Board and on the skills and perspectives each candidate brings to the overall composition of the Board. 

For the 2021-22 academic year, the members of the Board of Trustees self-identified as follows:

Source: Survey conducted by the Board, winter 2022-2023. Data self-reported by Board members. Percentages have been rounded off to the next whole numeral.

Gender

Pie chart representing the gender composition of the Board of Trustees

Members of the Board: 

48% Female
52% Male 

Age 

Pie chart representing the age composition of the Board of Trustees

Members of the Board:

  5% Age 30-39
65% Age 40-49
30% Age 50-59
  

Relationship to the School 

Bar graph representing Current Parent, Parent of Alumni, and Alumni relationship to the School

Members of the Board:

43% have children who are Park alumni
86% have at least one child at Park during 2022-23
15% are Park alumni 

Financial Aid 

Members of the Board:

14% receive financial aid from The Park School
86% do not receive financial aid from The Park School

Park Students:

22% receive financial aid from The Park School
78% do not receive financial aid from The Park School 

Ethnicity

Pie chart representing the ethnicity composition of the Board of Trustees

Members of the Board identify as:

65% White/European/European-American
15% Black/African/African-American
  5% South Asian/South Asian-American
10% East Asian/East Asian-American
 5% Multiracial
 5%   Other
 *0% Native American or Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern or Arab-American

In comparison, Park students identify as follows:

59% White/European/European-American
  8% Black/African/African-American
  3% South Asian/South Asian-American
  9% East Asian/East Asian-American 19% Multiracial
 7% Hispanic/Latinx
  1% Middle Eastern/Arab American

  1% Other
 *0% Native American or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or Prefer not to answer