Wichita Collegiate School
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| Address | |
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9115 East 13th Street Wichita, Kansas 67206 United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°42′26″N 97°13′52″W / 37.707248°N 97.230978°WCoordinates: 37°42′26″N 97°13′52″W / 37.707248°N 97.230978°W |
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| School type | Private, College preparatory |
| Motto | Proba Te Dignum (Prove Yourself Worthy) |
| Established | 1963 |
| CEEB code | 173210 |
| Athletic Director | Mitch Fiegel |
| Grades | PreK to 12 |
| Average class size | 15 |
| Campus size | 42 acres |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) |
Royal Blue Gold |
| Song | Dear Collegiate |
| Athletics | Class 4A, District 11 |
| Athletics conference | AVCTL III & IV |
| Sports | basketball,baseball,soccer,football for mens |
| Mascot | Spartans |
| Team name | Wichita Collegiate Spartans |
| Newspaper | The Spartan Voice |
| Yearbook | The Collegian |
| Communities served | All |
| Website | www.wcsks.com |
Wichita Collegiate School, known locally as Collegiate, is a private, co-educational, non-denominational, and non-profit college preparatory day school founded in 1963 currently enrolling 966 students from preschool through 12th grade located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. The Headmaster is Tom Davis. Wichita Collegiate School has built a statewide reputation for academic excellence. The school motto is: "Proba te Dignum" (Latin for "Prove Yourself Worthy")
Wichita Collegiate School was originally conceived in the 1950s as an alternative to Wichita public education. Its name was originally Wichita Independent Day School. The founder and first chairman of Wichita Collegiate, Robert Love, claimed in his book, How to Start Your Own School, that, "Traditional private and parochial schools either eagerly emulate public institutions or are coerced by the state into doing so through acceptance of government accreditation and certification regulations ... Collegiate was independent of both church and state from the beginning for very practical reasons. All of us had already rejected state-run schools as being a restrictive, inefficient way to educate children. To be consistent, we decided against any association with the state in our new education venture. This meant no special legislative favors, no participation in government loan or grant programs, no state accreditation, and no requirement that we hire only certified teachers." Robert Love was also a member of the National Council of the Libertarian John Birch Society but he parted ways with that organization over its support for the Vietnam War.
WCS has subsequently received large contributions from John Birch Society philanthropists, including 17 charitable donations totaling $3,343,347 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation between 1986 and 1997.
In 2008, Wichita Collegiate was selected by the Malone Family Foundation to receive a $2 million endowment to help make the educational opportunities and experiences accessible to academically talented students entering grades 7-12 whose families demonstrate significant financial need. Malone Scholar Schools are selected by the Malone Family Foundation on the basis of academic caliber; quality of the faculty and staff; excellent accommodations for gifted and talented students; strong AP programs; attention to the individual student’s needs, interests, and talents; financial strength and stability; a commitment to need-based financial aid; and an economically, culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse population. The Foundation’s school selection process concluded in 2013 with 50 Malone Scholars Schools across the country. Wichita Collegiate is the only Malone Scholars School in Kansas. Currently, there are seven Malone Scholars at Wichita Collegiate. Additional Malone scholars will be named as current scholars graduate.
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