Collegiate School (Richmond, Virginia)
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103 North Mooreland Road Richmond, Virginia 23229 |
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| Type | Private, prep, co-ed |
| Motto | Parat. Ditat. Durat. |
| Religious affiliation(s) | None |
| Established | 1915 |
| Head of school | Stephen D. Hickman |
| Faculty | 196 |
| Grades | JK–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 1,600 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Green & Gold |
| Song | "Hail Collegiate" |
| Mascot | The Collegiate Cougar |
| Rivals | St. Christopher's School, St. Catherine's School |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Independent Schools, Virginia Association of Independent Schools |
| Newspaper | The Match |
| Yearbook | The Torch |
| Endowment | $59,112,000 (as of March 31, 2015) |
| Tuition | $20,110-$23,610 |
| Website | Collegiate School |
Collegiate School is a preparatory school for boys and girls located in Richmond, Virginia. The student body of Collegiate comprises about 1,600 total students from Junior 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.
Collegiate was founded in 1915, By Helen Baker 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.
2015-2016
Total Faculty - 196
Faculty holding advanced degrees - 140
2015-2016
Total Students - 1,643
Active Alumni - 5,916
103 North Mooreland Road Richmond, Virginia 23229
'Upper, Middle, and Lower Schools' - classrooms and computer labs for appropriate grade levels. Lower - JK-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.
Three Libraries - one is for Lower School students (Mary Morris Watt Library), one is for Middle School students (Reed-Gumenick Library), and one is for Upper School students (Saunders Family 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.
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, Over 4 miles of mountain biking trails, 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).
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