The Roxbury Latin School
| Roxbury Latin School | |
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Mortui Vivos Docent
(The dead teach the living) |
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| Address | |
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101 Saint Theresa Avenue West Roxbury, MA 02132 USA |
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| Coordinates | 42°16′32″N 71°9′27″W / 42.27556°N 71.15750°WCoordinates: 42°16′32″N 71°9′27″W / 42.27556°N 71.15750°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Day, College-prep |
| Established | 1645 |
| Headmaster | Kerry P. Brennan |
| Faculty | 47 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 303 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7:1 |
| Campus | Urban, 120 acres |
| Color(s) | Jewel red, Sable black, white |
| Athletics | 10 sports 32 teams |
| Athletics conference | ISL |
| Mascot | Fox |
| Rivals |
Noble and Greenough School Belmont Hill School |
| Average SAT scores (2015) | N/A (median = 2210) |
| Average ACT scores | N/A |
| Tuition | $29,300 |
| Website | www.roxburylatin.org |
The Roxbury Latin School, which was founded in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. Since its founding in 1645, it has educated boys on a continuous basis.
Located since 1927 at 101 St. Theresa Avenue in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, the school now serves roughly 300 boys in grades seven through twelve. Eliot founded the school "to fit [students] for public service both in church and in commonwealth in succeeding ages," and the school still considers instilling a desire to perform public service among its principal missions.
The school's endowment is estimated at $135 million, the largest of any boys' day school in the United States. The school maintains a need-blind admissions policy, admitting boys without consideration of the ability of their families to pay the full tuition.
Its previous headmaster, F. Washington Jarvis, who retired in the summer of 2004 after a 30-year tenure, published two books about Roxbury Latin: a history of the school and a collection of his speeches to boys at Roxbury Latin (With Love and Prayers). The title of the former, Schola Illustris, was the phrase Cotton Mather used to describe the school in 1690, following John Eliot's death. In addition to those books, Richard Walden Hale published Tercentenary History of the Roxbury Latin School in 1946. Roxbury Latin continues to hold a unique place in the history of American education.
Roxbury Latin is a member of the Independent School League and NEPSAC. It has an unofficial sister school relationship with the Winsor School in Boston as well as an African brother school, the Maru a Pula School.
According to the school's website, the median Roxbury Latin student of the class of 2015 scored 2210 on the SAT. Roxbury Latin generally has the highest median SAT average of any private school. A 2004 piece in The Wall Street Journal noted Roxbury Latin for its acceptance rates at the most competitive universities, despite maintaining a low tuition relative to its peers ($26,100 in 2013–2014). In 2003, Worth magazine ranked Roxbury Latin as the #1 "feeder school" for elite universities, with a larger portion of its graduating class attending Princeton University, Harvard University, or Yale University than any other school.
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