Randolph School
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Huntsville, Alabama USA |
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| Coordinates | 34°42′22″N 86°33′29″W / 34.706°N 86.558°WCoordinates: 34°42′22″N 86°33′29″W / 34.706°N 86.558°W |
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| Type | Private, college preparatory |
| Motto |
Diligentes Ad Veritatem Quaerendam (Diligent in Seeking Truth) |
| Established | 1959 |
| CEEB code | 011475 |
| Head of school | James E. Rainey Jr. |
| Faculty | 150 |
| Enrollment | 941 |
| Average class size | 13 students |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10:1 |
| Campus | Suburban (67 acres) |
| Color(s) | Blue, White, and Gray |
| Team name | Raiders |
| Average SAT scores (2011) | 635 verbal 635 math 625 writing |
| Website | www.randolphschool.net |
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Randolph School is an American independent private kindergarten-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It started in an antebellum home on Randolph Avenue in downtown Huntsville with just a few elementary classes. A few years later it moved to a much larger 17-acre (69,000 m2) campus on Drake Avenue, where it is now located, gradually adding grade levels until having a graduating high school class in the early 1970s.
In 1998, the school purchased 50 acres (200,000 m2) of land on Garth Road, less than one mile (1.6 km) from the present location of the main campus. The new high school opened for the 2009–2010 school year. For the Fine arts, the new school includes a new theater with stadium seating, a workshop for stagecraft, band and choral rooms, and new restroom facilities. In total, Randolph has two gymnasiums, six tennis courts, two practice fields and professionally maintained fields for football, baseball, softball and soccer.
In 2014, Randolph received a grant from the Edward. E. Ford Foundation to help the School begin to address the long-term sustainability of a robust tuition assistance program.
During the 2001–02 school year, and again in 2003–04, Randolph School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
Between a fifth and a third of each graduating class is identified as a Commended Scholar, Semi-Finalist, or Finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. Virtually all graduates go on to attend four-year college.
All varsity teams currently compete in the AHSAA 5A division. The Randolph boys have won the Cross Country State Championships in 1982, as well as 2005–2013, setting a new state record for most consecutive state championship wins in Alabama with 9. They were runners up in 2014. The girls Cross Country team won in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1996, and 1998, and were runners-up in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The boys soccer team won State Championships in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, and 2015. The Raiders Varsity Boys Soccer were also ranked 3rd nationally in 2006 and first in the Southeast. In 2012, the boys lost in the state championship game to rival Altamont School. They again were state runners-up in 2014, losing to Indian Springs. In 2015, they defeated St. Paul's Episcopal School 3-2 in the finals. The Randolph soccer team has either been state runner up or state champs since the year 2000, except 2004, 2005, and 2010. The girls soccer team won their first state championship in 2009 and won again in 2013, defeating Montgomery Academy after losing to them in the finals in 2012. The girls team were again state runners-up in 2014, losing to Montgomery Academy. They were state champions in 2015. The boys tennis team won the state championship in 1984 and 2008, and has finished runner-up in 2002, 2007, and 2009. The boys tennis team also won the state sportsmanship award in 2008 and 2009. The girls tennis team finished as the state runner-up in 2012. The girls volleyball team won the state title in 1983, 1985 and 2015. For the first time in 30 years, Randolph launched a varsity football program in 2010 and reached the playoffs for the first time in 2015 only to be defeated by Wenonah High School in the first round.
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