Choate Rosemary Hall

Choate Rosemary Hall
Address
333 Christian Street Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 United States
Information
School type	Private, Boarding school
Motto	Fidelitas et Integritas (Fidelity and Integrity)
Founded	1890 (Rosemary Hall) 1896 (Choate School)
Founder	Mary Atwater Choate, William Gardner Choate
Head of school	Alex Curtis
Faculty	131
Grades	9–12 (3rd form–6th form)
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	865
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	Suburban, 458 acres 121 buildings
Color(s)	Choate Blue and Gold, and Rosemary Blue
Athletics conference	Founders League Eight Schools Association
Mascot	Wild boar
Nickname	Choate
Newspaper	The News
Yearbook	The Brief
Endowment	$318 million
Website	www.choate.edu

Choate Rosemary Hall (often known as Choate; /tʃoʊt/) is private, college-preparatory, coeducational, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. It took its present name and began a coeducational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments, The Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in Wallingford, moved later to Greenwich, Connecticut). At the merger, the Wallingford campus was enlarged with a complex of modernist buildings on its eastern edge to accommodate the students from Rosemary Hall.

The school has educated generations of the upper-class New England establishment and the American political elite, and it has introduced many programs to diversify the student population, including the introduction of a free education for families whose income is $75,000 or less. Choate is a member of the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized in 2006, when former Choate headmaster Edward Shanahan was appointed its first president. The member schools are Choate, Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, and Northfield Mount Hermon.

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