Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School
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459 Broadway Cambridge, Massachusetts United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Opportunity, Diversity, and Respect |
| Established | 1648 |
| School district | Cambridge Public School District |
| Principal | Damon Smith |
| Teaching staff | 177 (2014–2015) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,836 (2014–2015) |
| Color(s) | Silver and black |
| Athletics conference | MIAA District A – Dual County League |
| Mascot | Falcons |
| Accreditation | NEASC |
| Average SAT scores | 521 verbal 526 math 514 writing 1561 total (2015-2016) |
| Newspaper | The Register Forum |
| Nobel laureates | Eric Allin Cornell |
| Website | crls |
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, also known as CRLS or "Rindge," is a public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is a part of the Cambridge Public School District.
In 1977, two separate schools called the Rindge Technical School and Cambridge High and Latin School, merged to become what today is known as Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS).
The school is divided into groups called 'Learning Communities.' Currently, the Learning Communities are called C, R, L, and S.
Until June 2000, the subdivided schools were known as the Houses of Pilot, Fundamental, House A, Academy, Leadership, and the Rindge School of Technical Arts or RSTA. In 1990, RSTA became a "house" within the main CRLS school. The "Houses" then became "Small Schools" 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The High School Extension Program, at the site of the old Longfellow School, just down Broadway, offers a nontraditional approach to the high school learning process, handling only 60–100 students at a time. In 2009 and 2010, the building became a temporary freshman academy to accommodate renovations.
CRLS is also noted for its diversity.
Beginning in 2003, the City of Cambridge mobiized an ambitious plan to renovate the high school. The project was claimed to be "the first major renovation and refurbishing of the 35-year-old high school building." The project continued to be pushed back, due to state funding issues and other obstructions along the way. In 2006, the state announced a return in funding, and by the Spring 2007 the School Committee started looking at wider ranging renovations for the building. The renovations were completed according to schedule, under way from 2009 to 2011.
CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into a greater whole. In 1642, the year Harvard College's first class of nine young men graduated, and the General Court made it the duty of Cambridge to require that parents and masters properly educate their children or be fined if they neglected to do so. (Girls, however, did not usually attend public schools until 1789, when Boston voted that "children of both sexes" should be taught in the reading and writing schools of their newly reorganized system.) In 1648, Cambridge set up a public grammar school, Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole," making Cambridge the fifth town (after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Corlett's schoolhouse came into the possession of Old Cambridge in 1660, and over the next century was succeeded by several new buildings. The public school that evolved from Cortlett's original was a "grammar school" in a double sense: an English grammar school for Old Cambridge and a Latin grammar school (teaching the rudiments of Latin and Greek) for all Cambridge. The school generally aimed to prepare students for admission to college:
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