Collegiate School is a private school for boys in New York City and lays claim to being the oldest school in the United States.^[1][2] It is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a member of both the Interschool and the Ivy Preparatory School League. Image File history File links Collegiate School Logo (shield in round setting) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... NY redirects here. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River above West 59th Street. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... The Ivy Preparatory School League, like the Ivy League for universities, was originally an athletic conference, not a scholastic one, for preparatory schools. ...

History

Collegiate was founded in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1628 by the Dutch West India Company and the Classis of Amsterdam. The school’s initial incarnation was located south of Canal Street and was an academic institution for both sexes. The school's location has changed several times over the last four centuries, although the school has been at its current location, next to the West End Collegiate Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, since 1892. New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century town which grew outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory (1614–1674) which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic since 1624. ... 1628 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was a company of Dutch merchants. ... Canal Street is a major street in New York City, crossing lower Manhattan to join New Jersey in the west (via the Holland Tunnel) to Brooklyn in the east (via the Manhattan Bridge). ...

Founding date

Controversy surrounds the school's actual founding date. Prior to 1984, the common belief was that the school had been founded in 1638, placing it two years later than the founding of Harvard University and three years after the founding date of Boston Latin School. Dr. Massimo Maglione, a historian and Upper School teacher at Collegiate, conducted research into the accuracy of this date and found that Collegiate's founder—the Reverend Jonas Michaelius, the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in America—had written of his efforts to teach the catechism to Indian children as early 1628. Based on this evidence, the school in 1984 officially moved up its founding to the earlier date. Whether Michaelius' early teaching actually constituted the founding of a school, however, remains under debate. Maglione told the New York Times in 1985 that "it seems clear that the school was not an official entity until 1638." Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Motto Sumus Primi Founded April 23, 1635 Head Master Lynne Mooney Teta Affiliation Boston Public Schools Curriculum College-Preparatory Grades 7-12 Enrollment c. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

School seal and mottoes

Collegiate's official seal is an adaptation of the coat of arms of William of Orange, who was the founder of the Dutch Republic and of the Reformed Church in Holland and led the cause of independence and of freedom for the Reformed Church against Phillip II of Spain. Included in the school's seal are two mottoes: Eendracht Maakt Macht, Dutch for "In unity there is strength," and Nisi Dominus Frustra, Latin for "unless God, then in vain." A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... William I (William the Silent). ... Philip II of Spain (1527 – September 13, 1598), King of Spain (r. ...

The School

Mission

Currently, the school teaches students in grades K-12. The school's mission is the following: Collegiate School strives to educate each boy to reach his highest level of intellectual, ethical, artistic, and physical development. Drawing on what is known about boys' growth and learning, the school offers a rigorous K-12 program rich in opportunities for cultivating individual talents and interests in a climate of collaboration and respect.

Campus

The campus, located between 77th and 78th Streets and West End Avenue, consists of four separate buildings: The “Old Building,” Platten Hall, West End Plaza, and a new six-story extension that bridges Platten Hall with West End Plaza. The four-story “Old Building” is part of the original church and is home to the “Upper School,” grades 9-12. Platten Hall, originally nine stories, was extended in 1990 by two floors. It includes two gyms (in addition to the “Alumni” Gym located next to the “Old Building”), The Ann and Edgar Bronfman Theatre, the “Lower School” (grades 1-4), the "Middle School" (grades 5-8), a full-service library, music and art studio facilities, a dark room, two computer labs, a weight-lifting room, and the science department. West End Plaza is a hotel that was purchased by the school in 1977. Though it still serves in part as a residence for teachers, Collegiate has renovated several floors into administrative offices, classrooms for the Kindergarten (added in 1997), “Lower School” and the "Middle School" (grades 5-8), and a cafeteria. All four buildings border a courtyard where students of all grades play and study together. Eleventh Avenue is a north-south thorougfare on the far West Side of Manhattan in New York City, not far from the Hudson River. ... High School also refers to the highest form of classical riding, High School Dressage. ... ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ...

Structure

Each grade has approximately 50 boys, many of whom attend Collegiate for the full course of study, thirteen years (these young men are nicknamed "Survivors"). A financial aid program ensures that the boys remain heterogeneous; as with many of its peer NYC schools, however, many of the boys have parents who can afford the high tuition. More than a quarter of Collegiate teachers hold a Ph.D., and many teach college courses at night and during the summer. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ...

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Leadership

Collegiate's Board of Trustees selected Dr. Lee M. Levison to serve as the school's 28th Headmaster, replacing Dr. W. Lee Pierson, who served as interim headmaster for two years after Mr. Kerry Brennan left to become headmaster at The Roxbury Latin School, following just a four year tenure at Collegiate. Dr. Levison, head of school at the Kingswood-Oxford School for many years, began serving at Collegiate July 1, 2006. Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. ... Kingswood-Oxford School is a private day school located on Trout Brook Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Curriculum

Collegiate's Upper School (high school) curriculum consists of English, Math, Science, History, Modern Foreign Languages (Spanish, French, or Chinese), Classics (Latin and Ancient Greek), Religion & Ethics, Music, Visual Art, Drama, Technology, and Physical Education.

• English: In the Freshman year of English, students examine fiction through the study of novels and short stories and explore a wide variety of poets and poetic forms. A semester is also devoted to world literature which is done in conjuncture with the History Department. In the Sophomore year of English, students examine the epic and tragedy while focusing on their essay writing. Students read Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Milton's Paradise Lost, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Electives in English, available starting Junior year, in recent years have varied to include Modernism and the Manufacture of Form, 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, The Art of Horror: The Horror of Art, Beyond Good and Evil, Creative Writing, Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature, European Modernism, Fundamentals of Fiction, Literature of the Irrational Mind, Melville, Russian and Chinese Literature, New York City in Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Japanese Literature, The Autobiographical Self, The Eloquent Essay, The Essay: Aesthetics, Literature of the Quest, The Essay: Writing About Science, and The Romantic Movement. Collegiate School is well-known for its superb English department.

• Mathematics: Collegiate's Mathematics Department offers a wide variety of courses including Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, chaos and fractal geometry, algebra II, precalculus, calculus, statistics, geographic information systems, and symbolic logic.

• Science: Freshman year science consists of biology. Sophomore year science consists of chemistry. After that students may choose electives in physics, earth science, environmental science human anatomy and physiology, marine biology, and controversial topics in biology.

• History: After an initial Freshman year of World History II (continuing from 8th Grade), and the sophomore survey of U.S. history, students may choose history electives in a variety of interests such as Advanced European and U.S. history, African history, economics, history of psychological thought, Latin American history, Modern China and Japan, Modern South Asia, U.S. Urban Politics, and U.S. Women's history. Under the wise and careful leadership of history department head Dr. Ryland Clarke, new courses - such as Middle Eastern history - continue to be added.

• Foreign Languages: Students must take any language for three years in the Upper School, either Spanish, French, Latin, or Chinese. Students can also take Ancient Greek.

• Religion: The religion department studies and addresses various world theologies and traditions, as well as topics in ethics such as social and biomedical issues.

• Visual Art: Students may chose electives in art history, architectural design, digital imagery, ceramics, painting, drawing, printmaking, and web design.

• Drama: Collegiate's drama department puts on around 7-10 productions per year. The school's unique location in the theatrical capital of the world allows it to make usage of the many performances of professional theater that occur in New York City. Students not interested in acting can serve as theater technicians or as design and stage creators.

• Music: Collegiate's music department offers courses in Afro-Latin Drumming (Djembe, Dundun, etc.), music theory and composition, chorus, orchestra, world music, applied music, and music tech (using computers and synths to create original compositions). Students are also encouraged and given the freedom and time needed to create their own rock/pop bands.

Rankings

While Collegiate's small size precluded it from being included in an official ranking of schools' college matriculation lists conducted by the Wall Street Journal, the newspaper did note that Collegiate's college admissions percentages would have placed first on the list were it not for the school's small size.^[3] Furthermore, in 2002, Worth Magazine ranked Collegiate third among the nation's independent schools in terms of percentage of graduates attending Yale University, Harvard University, and Princeton University. The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ...

Sports and co-curricular activities

The sporting pride of the school lies in the Varsity Basketball, Baseball, and running teams (Cross Country, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track). Collegiate also has Varsity and JV Soccer, Wrestling, Lacrosse, and Tennis teams. Students not participating in a sport take either P.E., yoga, or weightlifting. Yearly fitness tests are administered. Under the careful leadership of Coach George Calano, the school's Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track teams have become nationally recognized for their depth and strength. In 2006 Collegiate's Cross Country team was briefly ranked #4 in the nation, especially impressive considering the team's small size.

The school has a considerable number of clubs, especially in the Upper School. They include:

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Notable alumni