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Collegiate School is a preparatory school for boys and girls located in Richmond, Virginia. The student body of Collegiate comprises about 1,600 total students from Junior Kindergarten through 12th Grade. The Lower School and Upper School are coeducational and the Middle School is coordinated with boys and girls in separate classes.


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History

Collegiate was founded in 1915, By Helen Baker as the Collegiate School for Girls, a college preparatory school located in downtown Richmond. In addition to this campus in town, Collegiate opened the Collegiate Country Day School, off Mooreland and River Roads, in 1953 Collegiate's Town School and the Country Day School merged on Mooreland Road in 1960. Today Collegiate still remains on the Mooreland Road campus and has purchased over 155 acres (0.63 km2) in Goochland County. Collegiate had already developed 60 of these acres for athletic purposes.


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Faculty

2015-2016

Total Faculty - 196

Faculty holding advanced degrees - 140


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Enrollment

2015-2016

Total Students - 1,643

Lower School (JK-4) - 594
Middle School (5-8) - 524
Upper School (9-12) - 525

Active Alumni - 5,916


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Campus

103 North Mooreland Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

'Upper, Middle, and Lower Schools' - classrooms and computer labs for appropriate grade levels. Lower - JK-4, Middle - 5-8, Upper - 9-12.

Hershey Center for the Arts - includes the 620-seat Oates Theater, as well as art, music, and drama studios, a photography darkroom, and soundproof music studios.

Three Libraries - one is for Lower School students (Mary Morris Watt Library), one is for Middle School students (Reed-Gumenick Library), and one is for Upper School students (Saunders Family Library).

North and South Science Buildings with ten science labs for grades 5-12.

Seal Athletic Center with dance studio, indoor gym space, and weight-training room, as well as a training room.

Jacobs and West Gymnasiums for interscholastic sports, play area.

Two Athletic Fields on Mooreland Road Campus, one of which is a synthetic turf stadium (Grover Jones Field and Jim Hickey Track).

Robins Campus Ten minutes from main campus, with twelve playing fields including one synthetic field, a 5K cross-country course, Over 4 miles of mountain biking trails, and a new state of the art softball-baseball complex and athletics building. A new tennis facility, containing thirteen courts, including a championship court and a tennis house (Williams-Bollettieri Tennis Center).


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Athletics

Collegiate fields a total of 79 teams on "cub", junior varsity, and varsity levels in 24 sports. Participation in athletics may begin in the 7th grade. "Cub" teams are designated only for 7th and 8th graders. At this level there are no "cuts" and all team members are given a chance to play in each game. Varsity girl teams compete in the League of Independent Schools (LIS) conference. Varsity boy teams compete in the Virginia Preparatory League (VPL) conference. Qualified varsity teams compete for state championships overseen by the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA). Collegiate's teams have a long-standing rivalry with St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia and St. Christopher's School, Richmond.

Fall offerings for boys are cross country (2 teams), football (4 teams), and soccer (4 teams); for girls, they are cross country (2 teams), field hockey (6 teams), tennis (2 teams), and volleyball (6 teams). In the Winter, boys are offered basketball (8 teams), swimming and diving (2 teams), indoor soccer (1 team), indoor track (2 teams), and wrestling (2 teams), while girls are offered basketball (8 teams), swimming and diving (2 teams), and indoor track (2 teams). Spring offerings for boys are baseball (4 teams), golf (2 teams), lacrosse (4 teams), tennis (2 teams), and track (2 teams); for girls, they are lacrosse (6 teams), soccer (3 teams), softball (2 teams), and track (2 teams).

All members of competitive teams at Collegiate must sign a Training Rules agreement, which prohibits the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in any form, the possession or consumption of drugs (other than those prescribed by the athlete's physician for the athlete's use), and the possession or use of tobacco in any form. Training Rules are in effect beginning the first day of practice/try-outs of each athletic season through the end of the season, including all intervening breaks and holidays during the season.

Nineteen '11 Collegiate Cougars are now competing in soccer, lacrosse, swimming, tennis, football, basketball, and field hockey for their colleges and universities, including Richmond, Pennsylvania, High Point, Wofford, Villanova, Rhodes, William & Mary, Delaware, Columbia, Georgetown, Virginia, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Harvard, Franklin & Marshall, Christopher Newport, Tufts, Catawba, and Vermont.


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Notable alumni

  • Eric Cantor (1981), House Majority Leader (2011-2014), Member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th district (2001-2014)
  • Ann Cottrell Free (1934), journalist and author
  • Eugene Welch Hickok (1968), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education
  • Ray Easterling (1968), former safety for Atlanta Falcons
  • Stanley Druckenmiller (1971), investment manager
  • Steve Kelley (1977), syndicated cartoonist
  • Robert Wrenn (1977), professional golfer
  • Mike Henry, actor, producer, and screenwriter for "Family Guy", voice of Cleveland Brown, Herbert, Consuela, Bruce and various other characters
  • David Allen Schools (1983), Widespread Panic bassist
  • Robert Ukrop (1988), former professional soccer player
  • Scottie Thompson (2000), actress (NCIS, Trauma)
  • Russell Wilson (2007), quarterback for Seattle Seahawks, Super Bowl XLVIII champion
  • Wilton Speight (2014), starting quarterback at University of Michigan

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External links

  • Official site

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Footnotes

Source of article : Wikipedia