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Roxbury Latin School

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The Roxbury Latin School
Location
West Roxbury, MA, USA
Information
Type Private
Motto Mortui Vivos Docent"
(The Dead Teach the Living)
Religious affiliation None
Established 1645
Headmaster Kerry P. Brennan
Faculty 47
Enrollment 290
Student:teacher ratio 6:1
Campus Suburban, 120 acres
Color(s) Jule's red, Sable black, white
Athletics 10 sports
35 teams
Athletics conference Independent School League (ISL)
Mascot Fox
Rivals Noble and Greenough School and Belmont Hill School

homepage = www.roxburylatin.org
Average SAT scores 2230
Average ACT scores N/A

The Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous operation in North America. [1] The school was originally founded in Roxbury, Massachusetts by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England. Since its founding in 1645, it has educated boys on a continuous basis.

Located since 1927 at 101 St. Theresa Avenue in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, the school now serves close to 300 boys in grades seven through twelve. Eliot founded the school "to fit [students] for public service both in church and in commonwealth in succeeding ages," and the school continues to consider instilling a desire to perform public service among its principal missions. The school's endowment is estimated at $143.8 million,[2] the largest of any boys' school in the U.S. The school maintains a need-blind admissions policy, admitting boys without consideration of the ability of their families to pay the full tuition.

Other significant claims to fame are its students' high SAT scores. According to Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2009, Roxbury Latin students scored a median of 2230 on the 2400 scale, believed to be the highest score of any school in the country.[3] The July 2008 issue of the Roxbury Latin School Newsletter lists the SAT medians for the Class of 2008 as 750 Critical Reading, 750 Math, and 750 Writing. A 2004 piece in the Wall Street Journal noted Roxbury Latin for its acceptance rates at the most competitive universities, despite maintaining a low tuition relative to its peers ($17,900 in 2008-2009).[4] In 2003, Worth magazine ranked Roxbury Latin as the #1 "feeder school" for elite universities, with a larger portion of its graduating class attending Princeton, Harvard, or Yale than any other school.[5]

In 2008, the website PrepReview.com extended and updated the earlier survey by Worth magazine. Despite using more inclusive criteria in place of Worth's narrow focus on the Big Three, Roxbury Latin once again topped the rankings. PrepReview.com looked at the number of matriculants to all eight Ivy League undergraduate colleges as well as to MIT and Stanford. Roxbury Latin placed nearly half (45%) of its recent graduates among these institutions, the highest success rate of any secondary school in the world. The 2008 rankings by PrepReview.com placed Roxbury Latin first in all of the following categories: America's Top 50 High Schools, America's Best High Schools Ranked by SAT, and America's Best Private Day Schools. Additionally, PrepReview.com ranked Roxbury Latin first in the world among secondary schools for its students' success at gaining admission to Harvard University: in 2008, roughly 15% of the graduating class at Roxbury Latin matriculated at Harvard. Its nearest rival, Belmont Hill placed 13% of its 2009 graduating class to Harvard. These were the only two schools with double digit percentage points.

Its previous headmaster, F. Washington Jarvis, who retired in the summer of 2004 after a 30-year tenure, published two books about Roxbury Latin: a history of the school and a collection of his speeches to boys at Roxbury Latin (With Love and Prayers). The title of the former, Schola Illustris, was the phrase Cotton Mather used to describe the school in 1690, following John Eliot's death. In addition to those books, Richard Walden Hale published Tercentenary History of the Roxbury Latin School in 1946. Roxbury Latin continues to hold a unique place in the history of American education.

Roxbury Latin School is a member of the Independent School League and NEPSAC. It has an unofficial sister school relationship with The Winsor School in Boston.

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[edit] Athletics

The school has varsity, junior varsity and lower-level teams in football, cross country, soccer (fall), basketball, ice hockey, wrestling (winter), baseball, tennis, lacrosse, and track and field (spring). As an elective, cheerleading is not offered in each regular athletic season.

[edit] Music

The school has an extensive music program, available to students of all grades. There is junior chorus for seventh and eighth graders, and a chorus and a glee club for highschoolers. There is also a small, electrifying a cappella group consisting of about fourteen singers called the Latonics that requires an audition. Additionally, there is a jazz band and several halls a year devoted to instrumental performances by students and faculty. Most of the students participate in the music program.

[edit] References

  1. ^ See school history: "Schola Illustris: The Roxbury Latin School 1645-1995;" David R. Godine, publisher.
  2. ^ Charity Navigator Rating - Roxbury Latin School
  3. ^ Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2007-2008.
  4. ^ "The Price of Admission." The Wall Street Journal. April 2, 2004.
  5. ^ PrepSchoolUSA: 2003 PrepSchool/High School Rankings.
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Members of the Independent School League, New England

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