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Collegiate School | |
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Address | |
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]
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."...