Ransom Everglades
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| School type | Private, Independent |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Opened | 1903 |
| Location | Coconut Grove, Florida, USA |
| Enrollment 2005-2006 | 850 students |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Campus surroundings | Urban |
| School Mascot | Raider |
| School colors | Mossy Green and Columbia Blue |
| School Hours | 7:45 AM to 3:15 PM |
| Average Class Size | 12.8 |
Ransom Everglades consists of two educational institutions in Coconut Grove, Florida, one middle school and one upper school. The two schools, the Everglades School for Girls and Ransom, a school for boys, merged in 1974.
It is a prestigious and extremely well-marketed preparatory school in Miami, with an excellent record of sending students to Ivy League colleges and other top tier schools, and a challenging and wide ranging academic program. The school has some of the best course offerings and facilities in South Florida for a school of its size, and some people feel it is comparable to a small college. Despite its size, a comprehensive sports program exists, including a nationally ranked sailing team and an anually top-10 finishing cross country team.
Admissions is competitive and tuition costs approximately $20,000 without financial aid, which is available. Graduating classes tend to number around 130-150 students, almost all of whom go to 4 year colleges, primarily out of state.
The Everglades School for Girls was started by Marie B. Swenson in the 1950s; Ransom, intended as an all-boys school, was started in 1903 by Paul C. Ransom as the Adirondack-Florida School. Students originally migrated from the northern school in the Adirondacks to the southern Florida school as the seasons changed. This campus has now become the upper school (grades ninth through twelth) of Ransom Everglades. A boarding option was officially dropped in the late 70s and finally dropped de facto in the early 80s.
The upper high school, formerly The Ransom School, is located on the shore of Biscayne Bay. The middle school, formerly the Everlgades School, is about one and a half miles from the upper school and is not located on the water, but is a mile away from a residential neighborhood and the restaurants and shops of Coconut Grove.
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In 1998, the movie Wild Things was released, with many of its high school scenes being shot at the Ransom Everglades upper school campus.
In 2005, the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Braman Media Center, located on the middle school campus, was held. The existing library and classrooms above it will be demolished. The space left by the demolished classrooms will have a new gym built upon it. Talks are in the works to dedicate it to Mr. Curtis Peterson, who died after complications from a surgery in 2005.
