Posh prep axes ‘party’ principal

An administrator at elite Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn — which counts Lena Dunham and Jennifer Connelly as alums — was sent packing earlier this year for allegedly hosting booze- and reefer-stocked student gatherings at his home.

John Smith’s resignation came amid a wider probe of “inappropriate contact” between staffers and students at the Brooklyn Heights school dating back to the 1960s and up until the early 2000s.

The Saint Ann’s upheaval was first reported Thursday by Buzz Feed.

“To distort the boundaries of the student-teacher relationship is antithetical to our school’s most deep- ly-held values and undermines the foundations of our educational mission,” read an October letter from Vince Tompkins, the schools’s head, along with board of trustees president Jonathan Weld. “Such behavior is not, and will not be, tolerated at Saint Ann’s.”

The school stressed that allegations of inappropriate contact do not involve any current students.

Smith, who had helmed the middle school since 2002, stepped down in January after officials caught wind of his fragrant symposiums.

“His actions included inviting then-current high school students and recently graduated, underage alumni, to his home, where he was the only adult present and serving them (or permitting them to bring and use) marijuana and alcohol,” read a letter from Tompkins to students, faculty and staff.

The note stresses that Smith’s invites persisted even when student interest didn’t.

Tompkins said Smith’s accounts of his behavior were either “false, incomplete, or less than forthright” and that he eventually agreed to resign.

In a letter announcing the ouster, Tompkins reassured the Saint Ann’s community that the school still “reveres the wild hypothesis, the linguistic flight of fancy, the willingness to make one’s self vulnerable as an actor, a student, a poet.”