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The Blake School (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

The Blake School
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Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
USA
Coordinates: 44°58′11″N 93°17′34″W / 44.9698000°N 93.2929000°W / 44.9698000; -93.2929000
Information
Type Private, College-prep, Day
Established 1900
Head of School Dr. Anne Stavney
Faculty 122
Gender Coeducational
Enrollment Approx. 1,400
Average class size 15-16
Student to teacher ratio 9:1
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Royal blue, kelly green, white, and brown
                
Athletics conference Independent Metro Athletic Conference (IMAC)
Mascot Blake Bears
Website

The Blake School is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian PK-12 college preparatory day school, established in 1900. Blake is located on three campuses around the Twin Cities area of Minnesota: the upper school (9–12) being in Minneapolis; administration offices, middle school (6-8), and half of the lower school being in Hopkins, Minnesota; and the other half of the lower school being in Wayzata, Minnesota.

During the early 20th century, two schools were founded in Minneapolis to prepare students for elite colleges in the Northeast: the Blake School for boys and Northrop Collegiate School for girls. A third school, Highcroft Country Day School serving students of both sexes, was incorporated during the migration to Minneapolis suburbs. In 1974, the three schools merged to become the Blake Schools, with its first coeducational class graduating in 1975.

In 1907, William M. Blake established the Blake School, a private, preparatory school for boys, in Minneapolis. Three years later, Charles C. Bovey, a local businessman, wanted to reform Blake, and put it on the same plane as Eastern preparatory schools.

With help from William Blake, Bovey asked sixteen other local business leaders to contribute $2,500 each towards the school's first capital drive. In 1911, these original guarantors hired Charles B. Newton, a Princeton and Harvard alumnus, to replace William Blake as headmaster. Newton envisioned a school "not only for the wealthy, but for the worthy." The school incorporated on May 5, 1911, with all but two guarantors serving on the Board of Trustees. In 1912, their pooled resources enabled the construction of a new building in suburban Hopkins, with the site, now known as Blake Campus, being the current home of the middle school and one of the two lower school campuses.


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