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The Webb Schools

The Webb Schools
The Webb Schools 2015 logo.jpg
Address

1175 W Baseline Road Claremont, CA 91711

United States
Claremont, California
Information
Type Private
Motto Principes non Homines
"Leaders, not Ordinary Men" (WSC)
Sapientia Amicitia Atque Honor
"Wisdom, Friendship, and Honor" (VWS)
Established

Webb School of California: 1922

Vivian Webb School: 1981
Dean

Webb School of California: Ben Farrell

Vivian Webb School: Helen Lawrence
Head of school Taylor B. Stockdale
Faculty 58
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 407 (2014-2015)
Average class size 16
Campus size 70 acres (28 ha)
School color(s) Blue and Gold
Blue and White
Athletics 44 teams in 15 sports
Athletics conference San Joaquin League of the California Interscholastic Federation
Mascot Gauls
Accreditations Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Schools Webb School of California
Vivian Webb School
Website
Webb Canyon Chronicle
Format Tabloid
Publisher Mark Dzula, Ph.D
Editor-in-chief

Siena Fay

Andrew Fenichel
Associate editor

Leilani Aguila

Annika Desai
Language English
Relaunched 2008
Headquarters

1175 W Baseline Road Claremont, CA 91711

United States
Circulation Approximately 1,000
Website webbcanyonchronicle.com

1175 W Baseline Road Claremont, CA 91711

Webb School of California: 1922

Webb School of California: Ben Farrell

The Webb Schools is the collective name for two private schools for grades 9-12, founded by Thompson Webb, located in Claremont, California. The Webb School of California for boys was established in 1922, and the Vivian Webb School for girls in 1981. Both are primarily boarding schools, but they also enroll a limited number of day students. The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a part of The Webb Schools.

The schools share a campus of approximately 70 acres (280,000 m2) in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. There are 407 students and 58 faculty members (as of the 2014-2015 school year). Annual tuition (as of the 2015-2016 school year) is $55,985 for boarding students and $39,815 for day students, including meals, books, and fees. For the 2015-2016 school year, Webb offered $4.1 million in need-based financial aid awards.

The majority of ninth- and tenth-grade classes are taught in a single sex environment. Co-educational courses are introduced to upperclassmen.

The official student newspaper of The Webb Schools is the Webb Canyon Chronicle.

The Webb School's founder, Thompson Webb, was born in 1887 as the youngest of eight children. His father, William Robert “Sawney” Webb, had established the Webb School in Tennessee in 1870. Thompson graduated from his father’s school in 1907, and continued his education at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1911.

After college, Webb's health and the suggestions of doctors led him to move west to a warmer climate. He moved to the California desert near Indio, worked as a farm hand, and eventually bought his own piece of land and started a career as a farmer. He married Vivian Howell, the 20-year-old daughter of a Los Angeles Methodist minister, on June 22, 1915. She joined him in farming. The Webbs farmed together and increased their holdings until 1918, when a diseased onion crop wiped out all their savings. Broke and carrying high debt, Webb did not have the capital to farm and, because the country was involved in World War I, he was unable to sell his land.


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