Cardigan Mountain School
| Cardigan Mountain School | |
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| Location | |
| Canaan, NH, USA | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private boarding school |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Headmaster | Christopher D. Day |
| Faculty | 60 |
| Grades | 6-9 |
| Enrollment | 215 |
| Average class size | 12 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 4:1 |
| Campus size | 500 acres (200 ha) |
| Campus type | Rural |
| Color(s) | |
| Athletics | 12 interscholastic sports 33 interscholastic teams |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 43°40′33″N 72°02′26″W / 43.67583°N 72.04056°W Cardigan Mountain School, also called Cardigan or CMS, for short, is an all-boys independent boarding school for grades six through nine, located on 62 Alumni Drive, Canaan, New Hampshire, USA. It was founded in 1945 on land provided by Dartmouth College.
It is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS), the Junior Boarding Schools Association (JBSA), and the Independent Schools Association of Northern New England (ISANNE). It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
Cardigan Mountain School was founded in 1945 by a group of men with a vision for an educational program tailored to the needs of boys in the pre-preparatory school years. The founders were prominent New England educators, businessmen, and civic leaders, including Ernest Martin Hopkins (president of Dartmouth College), William R. Brewster (headmaster of Kimball Union Academy), and Ralph Flanders (a U.S. senator from Vermont). Land for the school's campus had originally been donated to Dartmouth College by the Haffenreffer family. The founders believed the location to be ideal for a boys' school: the land and Haffenreffer mansion, which initially housed classrooms and a dormitory and is now called Clark-Morgan Hall, are situated on a peninsula in Canaan Street Lake with views of Mount Cardigan and the White Mountains to the east and the Green Mountains to the west. The school opened in 1946 with an enrollment of 24 boys, and its growth was fueled by the merger of the Clark School of Hanover, New Hampshire into Cardigan in 1953.
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