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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Collegiate_School_(New_York_City)_(48269672272).jpg) Current campus at 301 Freedom Place | |
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301 Freedom Place South , 10069 | |
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| Type | Private, day, college prep |
| Motto | Latin: Nisi Dominus Frustra ("Unless God, then in vain") Dutch: Eendracht maakt macht ("In unity there is strength") |
| Established | 1628 |
| Founder | The Rev. Jonas Michaelius and the Dutch West India Company |
| Chairman | Jonathan Youngwood ’85 |
| Headmaster | David S. Lourie |
| Faculty | 104.2 (on an FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | K-12[1] |
| Gender | Boys |
| Number of students | 656 (2019–2020)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6.3[1] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Orange and blue |
| Nickname | Dutchmen |
| Newspaper | The Journal |
| Yearbook | The Dutchman |
| Affiliations | Ivy Prep School League New York Interschool |
| Website | www |
Collegiate School is a private school for boys in New York City. It claims to be the oldest school in the United States.[2][3] It is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a member of both the New York Interschool and the Ivy Preparatory School League. In 2023–2024, tuition fees totaled $63,400 per year.[4]
- ^ a b c d "COLLEGIATE SCHOOL". Private School Universe Survey. National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ "Colligiate's Arithmetic Makes it the Oldest School". The New York Times. May 5, 1985. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^ "Gifted Parents Help Collegiate School". The New York Times. May 24, 1988. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
The concert celebrated what Collegiate calls its 360th anniversary. Which year the school was actually founded - 1628, 1633 or 1638 - has created disputes among the nation's oldest schools that seem as enduring as the schools. In 1984, Collegiate moved its date from 1633 to 1628, because officials discovered a letter written in 1628 by the Rev. Jonas Michealius of the Dutch Reformed Church describing his efforts to teach catechism to Indian children. To Collegiate officials, that sounded as much like a preparatory school as anything operating in early 17th-century America. The change puts Collegiate in the position of marking its 360th anniversary 55 years after it celebrated its 300th anniversary, in 1933. "It was all thrashed out around 1910," the headmaster, Cornelius B. Boocock, told The New York Times in 1933. "The case is now settled."...
- ^ "Tuition & Financial Aid at Collegiate School in New York". www.collegiateschool.org. Retrieved January 14, 2024.