- Collegiate School (Richmond, Virginia)
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Collegiate School 
"Minds that seek. Hearts that serve."Address 103 North Mooreland Road
Richmond, Virginia, 23229Information Established 1915 Head of school Keith A. Evans Faculty 191 Grades K–12 Gender Coeducational Campus type Suburban Song "Hail Collegiate" Mascot The Collegiate Cougar Accreditation(s) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Virginia Association of Independent Schools Newspaper The Match Yearbook The Torch Endowment $40,227,000 (as of June 30, 2008) Tuition $17,630 (Kindergarten-Grade 4), $19,400 (Grades 5-8), $20,690 (Grades 9-12) Website Collegiate School Collegiate School is a preparatory school for boys and girls located in Richmond, Virginia. The student body of Collegiate comprises about 1,500 total students from Kindergarten through 12th Grade. The Lower School and Upper School are coeducational and the Middle School is coordinated with boys and girls in separate classes.
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History
Collegiate was founded in 1915 as the Collegiate School for Girls, a college preparatory school located in downtown Richmond. In addition to this campus in town, Collegiate opened the Collegiate Country Day School, off Mooreland and River Roads, in 1953. Collegiate's Town School and the Country Day School merged on Mooreland Road in 1960. Today Collegiate still remains on the Mooreland Road campus and has purchased over 155 acres (0.63 km2) in Goochland County. Collegiate had already developed 60 of these acres for athletic purposes.
Administration
- Head of School: Keith A. Evans
- Vice President, Development: Alex Smith
- Vice President, Finance: Phyllis Palmiero
- Associate Head of School: Lindy M. Williams
- Head of Upper School: Ben Rein
- Head of Middle School: Charles L. Blair, Jr.
- Assistant Head of Middle School - Curriculum, Instruction, Technology: Dr. Fletcher Collins
- Assistant Head of Middle School - Student Progress: Debbie Miller
- Head of Lower School: Dr. Jill S. Hunter
- Assistant Head of Lower School: Laura Fields
- Academic Dean: David Colon
- Director of Admission: Amanda L. Surgner
- Co-Directors of Athletics: Karen S. Doxey; Charles L. McFall, Jr.
Faculty
2011-2012
Total Faculty - 191
Faculty holding advanced degrees - 145
Enrollment
2011-2012
Total Students - 1,574
- Lower School (K-4) - 580
- Middle School (5-8) - 496
- Upper School (9-12) - 498
Active Alumni - 5,526
Campus
103 North Mooreland Road Richmond, Virginia 23229
'Upper, Middle, and Lower Schools' - classrooms and computer labs for appropriate grade levels. Lower - K-4, Middle - 5-8, Upper - 9-12.
Hershey Center for the Arts - includes the 620-seat Oates Theater, as well as art, music, and drama studios, a photography darkroom, and soundproof music studios.
Two Libraries - one is for Lower School students (Mary Morris Watt Library) and the other is shared by Upper and Middle School students (Reed-Gumenick Library).
North and South Science Buildings with ten science labs for grades 5-12.
Seal Athletic Center with dance studio, indoor gym space, and weight-training room, as well as a training room.
Student Activities Center for journalism, tutoring, and personal counseling.
Jacobs and West Gymnasiums for interscholastic sports, play area.
Two Athletic Fields on Mooreland Road Campus, one of which is a synthetic turf stadium (Grover Jones Field and Jim Hickey Track).
Robins Campus Ten minutes from main campus, with twelve playing fields including one synthetic field, a 5K cross-country course, and a new state of the art softball-baseball complex and athletics building. A new tennis facility, containing thirteen courts, including a championship court and a tennis house (Williams-Bollettieri Tennis Center).
Athletics
Collegiate fields a total of 79 teams on “cub”, junior varsity, and varsity levels in 24 sports. Participation in athletics may begin in the 7th grade. “Cub” teams are designated only for 7th and 8th graders. At this level there are no “cuts” and all team members are given a chance to play in each game.[1] Varsity girl teams compete in the League of Independent Schools (LIS) conference. Varsity boy teams compete in the Virginia Preparatory League (VPL) conference. Qualified varsity teams compete for state championships overseen by the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA).[2] Collegiate’s teams have a long-standing rivalry with St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia and St. Christopher's School, Richmond.
Fall offerings for boys are cross country (2 teams), football (4 teams), and soccer (4 teams); for girls, they are cross country (2 teams), field hockey (6 teams), tennis (2 teams), and volleyball (6 teams). In the Winter, boys are offered basketball (8 teams), swimming and diving (2 teams), indoor soccer (1 team), indoor track (2 teams), and wrestling (2 teams), while girls are offered basketball (8 teams), swimming and diving (2 teams), and indoor track (2 teams). Spring offerings for boys are baseball (4 teams), golf (2 teams), lacrosse (4 teams), tennis (2 teams), and track (2 teams); for girls, they are lacrosse (6 teams), soccer (3 teams), softball (2 teams), and track (2 teams).[3]
All members of competitive teams at Collegiate must sign a Training Rules agreement, which prohibits the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in any form, the possession or consumption of drugs (other than those prescribed by the athlete’s physician for the athlete’s use), and the possession or use of tobacco in any form. Training Rules are in effect beginning the first day of practice/try-outs of each athletic season through the end of the season, including all intervening breaks and holidays during the season.[4]
Nineteen ’11 Collegiate Cougars are now competing in soccer, lacrosse, swimming, tennis, football, basketball, and field hockey for their colleges and universities, including Richmond, Pennsylvania, High Point, Wofford, Villanova, Rhodes, William & Mary, Delaware, Columbia, Georgetown, Virginia, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Harvard, Franklin & Marshall, Christopher Newport, Tufts, Catawba, and Vermont. [5]
Notable alumni
- Ann Cottrell Free ’34, journalist and author
- Edward Angus Powell, Jr. '66, former president of the United Service Organizations (USO) and former United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Eugene Welch Hickok ’68, former United States Deputy Secretary of Education
- Ray Easterling ‘68, after graduation from the University of Richmond, entered the NFL in the current day Atlanta Falcons organization
- Stanley Druckenmiller, ’71 investment manager [1]
- Steve Kelley ’77, syndicated cartoonist
- Robert Wrenn ‘77, professional golfer
- Eric Cantor ’81, United States Congressman (Republican) and current House Majority Leader
- David Allen Schools ’83, Widespread Panic bassist
- Mike Henry ’84, television writer and voice actor, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show
- Scottie Thompson '00, actress (NCIS, Trauma)
- Russell Wilson '07, North Carolina State football and baseball player (quarterback), (infielder); University of Wisconsin-Madison football player (quarterback)
External links
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.collegiate-va.org/podium/default.aspx?t=37709&rc=0
- ^ https://www.collegiate-va.org/podium/default.aspx?t=21909&rc=1
- ^ http://www.collegiate-va.org/podium/default.aspx?t=37709&rc=0
- ^ https://www.collegiate-va.org/ftpimages/21/download/Training%20Rule%20Official%20Form.doc
- ^ http://www.collegiate-va.org/podium/default.aspx?t=21915&rc=0
Coordinates: 37°34′41.8″N 77°35′13.6″W / 37.578278°N 77.587111°W
Categories:- Educational institutions established in 1915
- High schools in Richmond, Virginia
- Private schools in Virginia
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