students." John Pingry's personal motto, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7), hangs as a sign in the C.B. Newton Library located at the Basking Ridge Campus. In April 2020, the school received an unspecified amount in federally backed small business loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The school received scrutiny over this loan, which was meant to protect small and private businesses. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted that the schools should return the money, but Levinson stated they were keeping it, despite having an $80-million-plus endowment, due to the "significant challenges to our ability to serve our community" caused by the pandemic. In February 2021, Purnell School announced that it would cease operations upon the completion of the 2020-2021 academic year. Later that year, Pingry School paid $5 million for the campus in Pottersville in Somerset County, which will be used as an extension of its existing campuses. The Honor Code Pingry's Honor Code is as follows: Violations are judged by the student-run Honor Board. The Honor Code is included on every assignment and assessment, and is followed with strict standards. All students sign the Honor Code at Convocation every year, and are expected to continue to follow the Code upon leaving Pingry. Academics Pingry students can take multivariable calculus, calculus-based statistics, number theory, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics in the math department. English courses are taught entirely with discussion- and project-based methods. The School attracts faculty from various industries, including finance, computer science, and engineering. There are twenty faculty who have been at the school for 25 years or more. The vast majority of faculty have PhDs, EdDs, Master's degrees, or MBAs from schools such as Princeton, MIT, Yale, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania. Pingry has a 1:1 laptop policy. Pingry's math team has performed very well at the lower, middle, and high school levels. The lower school team got second place at the national mathleague.org competition in 2017. The middle school team also got NJ fourth place in the Mathcounts competition in 2019. The high school math team also participated in many math competitions/tournaments with first place 9th-grade team in the Lehigh University High School Math contest in 2020 and the national 4th place team in Math Majors of America Tournament for High Schools in 2020. Students at Pingry have done very well in the AMC