Cate School
| Cate School | |
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Servons
(Let Us Serve) |
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| Address | |
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1960 Cate Mesa Rd Carpinteria, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°24′18″N 119°28′39″W / 34.405005°N 119.4773809°WCoordinates: 34°24′18″N 119°28′39″W / 34.405005°N 119.4773809°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, Day & Boarding |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Non-sectarian |
| Established | 1910 |
| Head teacher | Benjamin D. Williams IV |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 270 |
| Color(s) | Blue/White |
| Athletics | Tri-County Athletic Association |
| Mascot | Rams |
| Website | http://www.cate.org |
The Cate School is a highly selective, coeducational, independent school for boarding and day students in the 9th through 12th grade located in Carpinteria, California, eleven miles east of Santa Barbara. The school has a current enrollment of 270 students from 31 different states and 18 foreign countries.
The Cate School was founded in 1910 by Curtis Wolsey Cate, a 25-year-old graduate of Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University. Originally established in 1910 as the Miramar School, then changed a year later in 1911 to the Santa Barbara School (or SBS), the school opened as a prep school for boys in grades 7 to 12, with its first academic year enrolling 12 students in total. In its early years, the school did not include amenities such as heat, hot water, or electricity, with Mr. Cate continuing to develop the 150 acres of natural landscape he had originally purchased. Despite these initial challenges, SBS celebrated its first graduate, Dohrmann Pischel, in 1914.
The school’s central campus, referred to by alumni as “the Mesa”, has moved four times since its inception. As the Miramar School, the campus was located in Santa Barbara's Mission Canyon in a leased private residence known as the Gane House. The school’s first academic building, the Gane House was destroyed in the Jesusita Fire in 2009. Mr. Cate moved the school to the Stewart Walcott Ranch in the Carpinteria Valley the next year under its new name, the extra space of which allowed him to pursue a program he had admired in his year of teaching English at the nearby Thacher School. Each one of Cate’s boys was given a horse to care for, and much of the school’s early campus and activities were dependent on horseback riding. In 1914, Walcott offered to sell Mr. Cate his 150-acre “mesa property”, a former ostrich farm, which was accepted. The school relocated immediately to the southwest mesa slopes, and then again in 1929 to its current location atop a hill within the property near the Santa Ynez Mountains. Architect Reginald Davis Johnson, son of the school's first president of the board of trustees, Episcopal bishop Joseph Horsfall Johnson, designed the first permanent campus buildings on the Cate Mesa between 1928 and 1929. The school’s stables, which originally housed the school’s horses and livestock, were moved to the present campus for preservation as part of the school’s Centennial Campaign, making it perhaps the last surviving building from the school’s old campus at the foot of the Mesa. Campus buildings have continued to be designed in keeping with Johnson’s original Monterey Colonial style to the present day.
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