Roxbury Latin School

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File:Portrait of John Eliot.jpg (1604–1690), founder of Roxbury Latin School|left|220x220px]] Roxbury Latin was founded by residents of Roxbury, Massachusetts to teach Latin grammar to local students.{{Cite book |last=Jarvis |first=F. Washington |title=Schola Illustris: The Roxbury Latin School, 1645-1995 |publisher=David R. Godine |year=1995 |location=Boston, MA |pages=93, 101–03, 110}}{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/about/history/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} John Eliot, the local minister, believed that a religious society needed to be religiously literate—i.e., well-educated.Jarvis, pp. 98-99. Like many of New England's oldest schools, the school started out as a one-room schoolhouse in Dudley Square with a single teacher, John Eliot's brother Philip.Jarvis, pp. 94, 170. The school's refusal to close during the American Revolution earned it the title of the oldest school in continuous existence in North America,Jarvis, p. 132.{{Cite web |title=Headmaster's Welcome |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/about/welcome/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} as Boston Latin School and New York City's Collegiate School both temporarily shut down during the war.{{Cite news |date=1985-05-05 |title=Collegiate's Arithmetic Makes It Oldest School |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/nyregion/colligiate-s-arithmetic-makes-it-oldest-school.html |access-date=2024-04-09 |work=The New York Times}}{{Cite web |title=BLS History |url=https://www.bls.org/apps3/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=206116&type=d |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=www.bls.org |language=en}}

Roxbury Latin's commitment to a college-preparatory education waxed and waned in its first two centuries of existence. In the 1660s it was listed as one of Harvard College's leading feeder schools, but between 1836 and 1844 the school sent only three students to any college.Jarvis, pp. 102-03, 151. The instability was largely due to the school's financial model. Roxbury Latin was funded by neither taxes nor tuition fees, but by local families who agreed to pay an annual subscription in perpetuity (in reality, until 1789) for the school's maintenance in exchange for free tuition.Jarvis, pp. 93, 103-04, 135. Its budget was large enough that several distinguished gentlemen taught at Roxbury Latin early in their careers, including future Supreme Court justice William Cushing and Massachusetts governor Increase Sumner.Jarvis, p. 127. However, for the most part, the pay was so uncompetitive relative to the tax-funded schools (in some years Boston Latin paid its teachers twice as much) that most schoolmasters departed after a year or two.Jarvis, pp. 114, 116, 127-29. Roxbury Latin did not hire a second schoolmaster until 1819.Jarvis, p. 144.

The school briefly converted to a semi-public institution from 1839 to 1860 in exchange for subsidies from the town of Roxbury, but was expelled from the public school system after it rejected too many students from the town's public elementary schools.Jarvis, pp. 153-54, 158, 162.

File:1899 RoxburyLatinSchool Boston.pngUnder headmaster William Coe Collar (1867–1907), the school quadrupled in size and became the now-familiar college-preparatory institution.Jarvis, p. 191. Although Collar was a classicist—he wrote popular Latin and Greek textbooks—he expanded Roxbury Latin's classical curriculum beyond Latin, Greek, and mathematics, adding courses in English, modern languages, and science.Jarvis, pp. 255, 287. He also hired specialist teachers to cover these new subjects.Jarvis, p. 284. When Collar retired in 1907, Harvard president Charles Eliot (no relation to Roxbury's founder John Eliot{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Henry |title=Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, 1869-1909, Volume 1 |publisher=AMS Press |year=1930 |page=5}}) said that "[t]here is no better preparatory school in the country."{{Cite news |date=1916-02-28 |title=Obituary for William Coe Collar (Aged 83) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-william-co/40869084/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=12}} Many of Collar's students went on to found or lead their own schools, including Middlesex (Frederick Winsor '88), St. Paul's (Samuel Drury '97), and Cate (Curtis Cate '03).Jarvis, p. 311.

Collar financed this expansion by imposing tuition fees for the first time in Roxbury Latin's history, starting in 1882. Although these fees were high by contemporary standards—Roxbury Latin's $100/year tuition handily outpaced Andover and Exeter,{{Cite book |last=Allis, Jr. |first=Frederick S. |title=Youth from Every Quarter: A Bicentennial History of Phillips Academy, Andover |publisher=University Press of New England |year=1979 |location=Hanover, NH |pages=295 (in 1883 Andover charged day students $60/year)}}{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Myron R. |title=The Story of Phillips Exeter |publisher=Phillips Exeter Academy |year=1957 |location=Exeter, NH |pages=75–76 (in 1895 Exeter charged day students $81/year)}} and was raised to $150 in 1892Jarvis, p. 329.—they did not raise enough money, as tuition was waived for students living in Roxbury, who at the time comprised 86% of the student body.Jarvis, p. 304. Although Collar turned Roxbury Latin into an elite prep school, the school consistently lost money under his leadership. In the 1890s, Collar attempted to convert Roxbury Latin into a boarding school, which could charge higher fees, but the new boarding department was unpopular and quickly abandoned.Jarvis, pp. 258, 332. The board of trustees (a majority of which, by law, lived or worked in Roxbury) repeatedly rejected any attempt to move the school from Roxbury or to impose tuition fees on Roxbury boys.Jarvis, pp. 339-41. These difficulties were still unresolved when Collar retired in 1907.Jarvis, pp. 343-44.

File:Roxbury Latin School escutcheon.png with the Pine Tree, a symbol of New England since the 17th century, and the Bible with the Christian symbol Alpha and Omega {{Citation needed|date=January 2025|reason=}}|220x220px]] In the decades following Collar's retirement, several constraints on Roxbury Latin's growth were removed. In 1913, the school's charter was revised to allow alumni, and not Roxbury residents, to control the board of trustees.Jarvis, p. 355. In 1927, the Massachusetts legislature passed an act confirming that Roxbury Latin would no longer have to educate Roxbury residents for free; however, the school did not charge residents tuition until 1935, and residents did not pay full tuition until 1961.Jarvis, pp. 396, 411-12, 448.

In 1927, Roxbury Latin moved to its present location in West Roxbury. In accordance with the country day school movement, which argued that students should be educated outside the distractions and pollution of the city, Roxbury Latin's affluent alumni had demanded that the school move from Roxbury (which was now a working-class neighborhood) to a more suburban location.Jarvis, pp. 355-56, 389. Charles Eliot of Harvard (a harsh critic of the old boardJarvis, p. 352.) also backed the move, writing in Roxbury Latin's promotional materials that in order to maintain the school's ability to feed students to Harvard, it was "necessary to convert the School into a country day school" by leaving urban Roxbury.Jarvis, p. 389.

The new location had a noticeable effect on Roxbury Latin's demographics. Although West Roxbury was more affluent than Roxbury, it was heavily Irish Catholic, so mid-century Roxbury Latin was notably diverse (on religious grounds) by New England prep school standards. In the 1944–45 school year, Roxbury Latin educated a roughly equal number of Protestants and Catholics.Jarvis, pp. 433-37. In addition, Jews were 14% of the student body. The school admitted its first black student in 1960 and its first black graduates (from its old neighborhood of Roxbury) in 1964.Jarvis, p. 445. In lieu of the Roxbury tuition subsidy, which for school purposes included West Roxbury, the school began offering a conventional financial aid program in 1951; by 1963 roughly one-third of the student body was on scholarship.Jarvis, p. 448. However, a proposal to admit girls was rejected in the 1970s,Jarvis, p. 467. and Roxbury Latin remains a boys' school to this day.

On May 16, 1995, former president George H. W. Bush visited the school and addressed the student body.{{Cite web |title=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/RoxburyLatin/posts/today-we-celebrate-our-41st-president-george-h-w-bush-we-were-so-fortunate-for-y/10156953319676115/ |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=www.facebook.com}}

In 2003, Roxbury Latin hired Kerry Brennan as its headmaster; he had previously served as headmaster of Manhattan's Collegiate School.{{Cite news |last=Gootman |first=Elissa |date=2003-12-04 |title=Metro Briefing {{!}} New York: Manhattan: Collegiate School Departure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-collegiate-school-departure.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} In 2024, Brennan was succeeded by Sam Schaffer, the head of the Upper School at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web |title=Head of School's Welcome |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/about/welcome/ |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}}

The school states that its admission rate is normally around 17% and that 90% of admitted students typically choose to enroll at RL.{{Cite web |title=School Profile 2024-2025 |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/20240828_School-Profile-24-25-v005.pdf |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=The Roxbury Latin School}}

Roxbury Latin has been recognized in several lists of schools that send their students to selective universities.

• 2002: Worth magazine ranked RL #1 in the nation for sending students to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. Between 1998 and 2001, 21.1% of RL graduates matriculated at one of these three schools.{{Cite news |last=Mathews |first=Jay |date=2002-09-02 |title=Feeder School List Hard to Digest |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/2002/09/03/feeder-school-list-is-hard-to-digest/9b9da7c6-b48f-4738-afc1-0c9616c56613/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
• 2008: PrepReview.com ranked RL #1 in the nation for sending students to the Ivy League schools, MIT, and Stanford.{{cite web |date= |title=The 50 Best Private Day Schools in the United States |url=https://thebestschools.org/features/best-private-day-schools-america |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224112845/https://thebestschools.org/features/best-private-day-schools-america/ |archive-date=2018-02-24 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Best Schools |publisher=}} 45% of RL graduates matriculated at one of these ten schools.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
• 2015: MainStreet ranked RL #5 in the nation for sending students to the Ivy League schools. 36% of RL graduates matriculated at one of these eight schools.{{cite web |date=15 October 2015 |title=TheStreet 2015 Rankings of Top US Private Schools |url=https://www.thestreet.com/story/13325695/1/top-us-private-schools-with-the-most-graduates-getting-into-ivy-league-universities.html |publisher=thestreet.com}}

In the five-year period from 2019 to 2023, Roxbury Latin placed 84 students at Ivy League schools, nearly half of whom (38) attended Harvard College.{{Cite web |title=Matriculation |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/student-life/college-guidance-matriculation/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} Approximately 55 boys graduate from Roxbury Latin every year.{{Cite web |title=Enrollment Data (2022-23) - Roxbury Latin (00350808) |url=https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=00350808&orgtypecode=11&&fycode=2023 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}}

In 2010, Forbes ranked Roxbury Latin the fifth-best prep school in the United States.{{cite web |title=Forbes 2010 America's Best Prep Schools Rankings |url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/best-prep-schools-2010-opinions-private-education_land.html#33e90dd22df2 |work=forbes.com}}

Roxbury Latin has a 6:1 student-teacher ratio, and the average class size is 12.{{Cite web |title=RL Facts |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/about/facts/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} The school stopped offering Advanced Placement courses in the 2024–25 school year, asserting that it offers honors and accelerated classes which "provide more range and depth than AP courses." Previously, the 54 students in the Class of 2022 took 137 AP examinations by the end of their junior year, and 74% of the papers received a 4 or a 5.

For the Class of 2024, the middle 50% SAT scores were 690-760 in English and 680-760 in math. The school states that "the median standardized testing of each class consistently hovers around 1500."{{Cite web |title=School Profile 2020-2021 |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/RL-School-Profile_2020-2021.pdf |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=The Roxbury Latin School}}

For the Class of 2025, 7 out of 56 students (12.5%) were recognized as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists based on their performances on the PSAT/NMSQT. Seven boys were recognized in either the African American or Hispanic Recognition Programs.

Tuition for the 2023–24 academic year is $39,250. Roxbury Latin admits boys on a need-blind basis and commits to provide financial aid that meets 100% of admitted students' demonstrated financial need.{{Cite web |title=Need-Blind Enrollment |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/admission/need-blind/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} 38% of the student body is on financial aid. In the 2023–24 academic year, 87 of the 116 families (75%) receiving financial aid grants had family incomes above $150,000/year.

The school has an unusual policy of charging frontline tuition that is "about 65% of that of other Boston-area independent schools."{{Cite web |title=Tuition |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/admission/tuition/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} However, after financial aid is taken into consideration, other day schools may still offer competitive tuition packages once a student is admitted. Roxbury Latin and athletic rivals Belmont Hill and Nobles all claim to meet 100% of admitted students' demonstrated financial need.{{Cite web |title=Belmont Hill Tuition & Financial Aid {{!}} Belmont Hill School |url=https://www.belmonthill.org/admissions/tuition-and-financial-aid |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.belmonthill.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Tuition and Financial Aid |url=https://www.nobles.edu/admission/tuition-financial-aid/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}

However, since Roxbury Latin is the only need-blind school out of these three, a prospective student seeking financial aid may have a better chance of obtaining admission to RL. Alternatively, a student otherwise eligible for financial aid may nonetheless apply as a full-pay student at Nobles and Belmont Hill to boost their chances of admission. In that case, RL's large discount in frontline tuition (in addition to the continuing possibility of financial aid at RL) becomes directly relevant.

In June 2024, Roxbury Latin's financial endowment stood at $212 million. In its Internal Revenue Service filings for the 2021–22 school year, Roxbury Latin reported total assets of $279.9 million, net assets of $248.5 million, investment holdings of $183.4 million, and cash holdings of $5.2 million. Roxbury Latin also reported $18.6 million in program service expenses and $2.8 million in grants (primarily student financial aid).{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= May 9, 2013|title=Roxbury Latin School Inc, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/42104857/202321119349301107/full |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}

Roxbury Latin's athletic teams play in the Independent School League, a group of private day and boarding schools in Greater Boston.{{Cite web |title=Independent School League |url=https://www.islsports.org/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.islsports.org}} The school offers 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).{{Cite web |title=Team Pages |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/athletics/teams/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}}

Teams of note include:

• Tennis. Roxbury Latin has won the conference championship eight of the last 11 seasons in which a title was awarded. It won the NEPSAC Class B tournament in 2013, 2019, and 2022, and has been a finalist four other times since 2011.{{Cite web |last=Berg |first=Erin |date=2023-05-23 |title=Varsity Tennis Wins ISL Title and Finishes Second in New England |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/2023/05/23/varsity-tennis-wins-isl-title-and-finishes-second-in-new-england/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}}
• Wrestling. Roxbury Latin's former head coach Steve Ward is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. At the time of his induction, his all-time record at Roxbury Latin was 357-57-1.{{Cite web |title=Steven Ward |url=https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/2229 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=nwhof.org}}
• Track & Field. The track team has won its division of the New England Prep School Track Association championship in nine of the last eleven years, including five in a row from 2011 to 2015. The team also won the Independent School Track Association Championship in 2012 and 2013.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
• Cross Country. The cross country team won the NEPSAC Class B Cross Country championship in 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, and 2017. The team also won the Interscholastic League Championship in 2021, 2018, and 2017 and finished second in 2023, 2018, and 2016. In 2017, the team went undefeated.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Roxbury Latin offers a school newspaper, a yearbook, an art magazine called Forum, several language clubs, a debate team, a Model United Nations group, and various community service clubs.

The theater program shows one junior play and one senior play per year, and one musical every year. The theater program offers RL students the opportunity to meet girls from neighboring schools.{{Cite web |title=Dramatics |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/arts/drama/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}} File:Photo of the Smith Theatre during the 2024 Roxbury Latin Winter Musical "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee".jpg

Roxbury Latin offers a variety of singing groups, including a middle school choir, a high school glee club, and a fourteen-boy a cappella group. Additionally, the school operates a jazz band, a guitar ensemble, and certain chamber ensembles.{{Cite web |title=Music |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/arts/music/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}}

Roxbury Latin participates in Vex Robotics, an annual interscholastic robotics competition. The school team placed 5th in the New England Division in 2009.{{cite web |title=Botball Team Places 5th in Regional Tourney |url=http://www.roxburylatin.org/news/detail.aspx?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=3394&ModuleID=72,RL |publisher=Roxbury Latin School}} In 2010, it placed 2nd out of 19 teams, a school record. In 2023 the school qualified three teams for nationals.{{cite web |title=VEX Success! |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/2023/03/16/vex-success,RL |publisher=Roxbury Latin School}}

The chess club has won or shared the South Shore Interscholastic Chess League title in 2 of the last 5 years.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

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