The Marvelwood School
| The Marvelwood School | |
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Kent, Connecticut United States |
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| Type | Private, Boarding |
| Established | 1956 |
| Head of school | Arthur F. Goodearl |
| Staff | 20 |
| Faculty | 52 |
| Enrollment | 169 |
| Campus | Rural |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Pterodactyl |
| Rival | Forman School |
| Endowment | $1.9 million |
| Tuition |
$52,000 (boarding) $34,000 (day) |
| Alumni | 1,852 |
| Website | www.marvelwood.org |
$52,000 (boarding)
The Marvelwood School is a college preparatory private boarding school located in Kent, Connecticut, United States. Marvelwood was founded in 1956 by Robert A. Bodkin and Ian Hanna in Cornwall, Connecticut. Bodkin remained headmaster until 1981. He was succeeded by Peter B. Tacy until 1989, H. Mark Johnson until 1997, Anne Davidson Scott until 2005, and Scott E. Pottbecker until 2011. Arthur F. Goodearl is the current headmaster.
Ian Hanna named the school after his relative Donald Grant Mitchell, an American novelist who was best known under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. The family owned an estate in New Haven, Connecticut, also called Marvelwood.
Marvelwood was founded in 1956 in Cornwall, Connecticut, on a campus previously occupied by Rumsey Hall School. In 1995, Marvelwood moved from its cramped campus in Cornwall to the former Kent School girls' campus about 10 miles (16 km) away on Skiff Mountain in Kent, CT.
Built in the early 1960s, the campus has gone through a number of renovations, and is being updated to meet the needs of its students and faculty. The school recently completed a capital campaign to build a new gymnasium and has begun a new campaign to build a new performing arts center. The campus is relatively isolated and is surrounded by conservancy lands, under the jurisdiction of the Kent Land Trust and Sharon Land Trust.
Marvelwood had no athletic mascot for many years. In 1991, Marvelwood students voted on the school's first-ever mascot and chose the Pterodactyl in an effort to stand out from other schools.
The Marvelwood student body consists primarily of boarding students, with only about 13% of students commuting from home. Of those boarding students, about 30% are international, coming from countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, Spain, France, Russia, and Vietnam. The school offers many ESL classes to accommodate foreign speakers.
Marvelwood is the only high school in North America to participate in bird banding. Its weather station enables students to take exact readings when birds are captured. Marvelwood works locally with the Sharon Audubon Society and Institute for Bird Populations. Cornell University's Feeder Watch survey also uses Marvelwood's weather data. Marvelwood also has an annual science department trip to Panama, which includes bird banding, insect and mammal research, and community service in villages in the rainforest.
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