Roxbury Latin School
Address
101 Saint Theresa Avenue West Roxbury , Massachusetts 02132 United States
Coordinates	42°16′32″N 71°9′27″W / 42.27556°N 71.15750°W / 42.27556; -71.15750
Information
Type	Private, Boys, Day, College-prep
Motto	Mortui Vivos Docent (The dead teach the living)
Established	1645 (1645)
Sister school	Winsor School
Headmaster	Kerry P. Brennan
Faculty	47
Grades	7–12
Gender	Boys
Enrollment	300
Average class size	13
Student to teacher ratio	7:1
Campus size	120 acres (49 ha)
Campus type	Urban
Color(s)	Jewel red, white, Sable black
Athletics	10 sports 32 teams
Athletics conference	ISL
Mascot	Fox
Rivals	Noble and Greenough School Belmont Hill School
Tuition	$34,550
Website	www.roxburylatin.org

Rev. John Eliot (1604–1690) Puritan missionary and founder of the Roxbury Latin School

The escutcheon of the School with the Pine Tree (a symbol of New England since the 17th century) and the Bible with the Christian symbol Alpha and Omega

The school at its former location on Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury, in 1899

The Roxbury Latin School is a private boys' day school that was founded in 1645 in the town of Roxbury (now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts) by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England. It bills itself as the "oldest independent school in continuous existence" in North America.

The school's endowment is estimated at $189 million,^[1] the largest of any boys' day school in the United States.

Rankings

According to the school's website, the middle 50% SAT Scores for the Class of 2019 ranged from 1450 to 1570, with the breakdown being 710-770 for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 740-800 for Mathematics.^[2] The Class of 2021 profile describes that "the median standardized testing of each class consistently hovers around 1500."^[3] Roxbury Latin has among the highest median SAT averages of any private school. A 2004 piece in The Wall Street Journal noted Roxbury Latin for its acceptance rates at the most competitive universities, despite maintaining a low tuition relative to its peers ($26,100 in 2013–2014). In 2003, Worth magazine ranked Roxbury Latin as the #1 "feeder school" for elite universities, with a larger portion of its graduating class attending Princeton University, Harvard University, or Yale University than any other school.^[4]

In 2008, the website PrepReview.com^[5] extended and updated the earlier survey by Worth magazine. Despite using more inclusive criteria in place of Worth's narrow focus on Princeton, Harvard, and Yale, Roxbury Latin again topped the rankings. PrepReview.com looked at the number of matriculants to all eight Ivy League undergraduate colleges as well as to MIT and Stanford University. Roxbury Latin placed nearly half (45%) of its recent graduates among these institutions, the highest rate of any secondary school in the world. The 2008 rankings by PrepReview.com placed Roxbury Latin first in all of the following categories: America's Top 50 High Schools, America's Best High Schools Ranked by SAT, and America's Best Private Day Schools. Additionally, PrepReview.com ranked Roxbury Latin first in the world among secondary schools for its students' success at gaining admission to Harvard University: in 2009, 20% of the graduating class at Roxbury Latin matriculated at Harvard. In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Roxbury Latin fifth in a list of the top 10 prep schools in America.^[6] In 2015, TheStreet ranked Roxbury Latin among Top US Private Schools with the Most Graduates Getting Into Ivy League Universities.^[7]

Athletics

The school has varsity, junior varsity and lower-level teams in football, cross country, soccer (fall), basketball, ice hockey, wrestling (winter), baseball, tennis, lacrosse, and track and field (spring). The school has a notable wrestling program, with the former varsity coach Steven E. Ward recently being inducted into the wrestling hall of fame in 2009.^[8] The varsity soccer team was co-champions with Rivers in the NEPSAC tournament in 2012. The Track & Field team has won the NEPSTA (New England Prep School Track Association) Championship in nine of the last eleven years, including five in a row from 2011 to 2015. The Track Team also won the ISTA (Independent School Track Association) Championship in 2012 and 2013. The Tennis team has won the ISL Championship in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, and has been invited to the NEPSAC Class B Tennis Championship nine years in a row, winning the tournament in 2013 and finishing as runners-up in 2015.^[9]

Extracurriculars

The school participates in many Model United Nations conferences and debate tournaments every year. Another moderately popular activity is Botball, an annual interscholastic robotics competition. The school team has done exceptionally well in recent years, placing 5th in the New England Division in 2009.^[10] In 2010, it placed 2nd out of 19 teams, a school record. The school also boasts several language clubs and a chess team that has won or shared the South Shore Interscholastic Chess League title in 2 of the last 5 years, as well as community service clubs, such as Habitat for Humanity.

Music

The school has an extensive music program, available to students of all grades. There is Junior Chorus for seventh and eighth graders, and a glee club for high schoolers, which involves nearly a third of the student body. There is also a small a cappella group consisting of about fourteen singers called the Latonics that requires an audition. Additionally, there is a Jazz Band, a Guitar Ensemble, and several halls a year devoted to instrumental performances by students and faculty.

Notable alumni

See also

•  Schools portal
• Boston Latin School
• Brooklyn Latin School
• List of the oldest schools in the world
• David W. Frank, author and long-time Director of Dramatics

References

Further reading

• Massachusetts Board of Education; George A. Walton (1877), "Report on Academies: Latin School, Boston Highlands", Annual Report...1875-76, Boston – via Internet Archive{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Roxbury Latin School