The Leelanau School
| The Leelanau School | |
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Glen Arbor, Michigan United States |
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| Coordinates | 44°54′44″N 85°58′17″W / 44.91214°N 85.97138°WCoordinates: 44°54′44″N 85°58′17″W / 44.91214°N 85.97138°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Boarding High School |
| Opened | 1929 |
| CEEB code | 231645 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Campus type | Rural |
| Nickname | Thunderbirds |
| Website | www |
The Leelanau School is a co-educational non-profit boarding high school located in Glen Arbor, Michigan. The school was founded in 1929, and is a small, college-preparatory school with 42 acres (170,000 m2) of land with 13 year-round and 9 seasonal building structures. The school has a teacher-to-student ratio between 1:6 and 1:10 for most classes, ranking among the top 20 American boarding schools in that category. It has a diverse student body, boasting an international enrollment of over 10%.
The school is located on the shore of Lake Michigan just outside Glen Arbor, with the Crystal River running through the property. The Lanphier Observatory, with a 13-inch (330 mm) Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector telescope, is also located on the grounds.
Leelanau School for Boys was founded in 1929 by William M. "Skipper" Beals and his wife Cora, née Mautz, faculty members of Principia College, in response to the popularity of their summer camps for Christian Scientist boys. Originally, the school, like the camps, was intended for boys from Christian Science homes. But while the camps maintain close ties to Christian Science to the present day, the school dropped its official religious denominational focus early on. The Christian Science camps were separated from the school completely in 1987 and continue under separate management.
The school weathered the Great Depression and its popularity necessitated the opening of Pinebrook School for Girls in 1940. The two schools grew rapidly after World War II and were eventually combined. Beginning in the early 1930s, Arthur S. “Major” Huey became an apprentice to Skipper Beals. In partnership with his wife Helen, née Mautz (Cora Beals’ sister), Huey purchased the school after Skipper’s death in 1942.
Privately owned until 1963, the school became a non-profit corporation with a board of directors upon the Hueys’ creation of The Leelanau Schools and Library Foundation, Inc., to which they gave the camps and the school with its present grounds. In 1967 Cora Beals donated the land that became "faculty row". The non-profit status eased fundraising efforts. The school grounds were exempted from eminent domain associated with the formation of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which surrounds the campus.
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