Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
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| Name |
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School |
| Address |
459 Broadway |
| Town |
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 |
| Established |
See Article |
| Community |
Urban |
| Type |
Public Secondary |
| Religion |
Secular |
| Students |
Coeducational |
| Grades |
9 to 12 |
| Accreditation |
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) |
| District |
Cambridge Public School District |
| Nickname |
CRLS or Rindge |
| Mascot |
Falcon |
| Colors |
Black and Gray/Silver |
| Newspaper |
The Register Forum |
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The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School is the only public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
The school, serving grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Cambridge Public Schools.
Once two separate schools called Cambridge High and Latin and the Rindge School of Technical Arts, the merged entity today is now commonly abbreviated as CRLS or Rindge. In 2004-2005 the school hosted 1,883 students from various nationalities [1].
The students are divided into subdivisions which seem to change name and geography within the building every year. Currently the "Small Learning Communities" are called C, R, L, and S. Until June of 2000, the subdivided schools were known as the Houses of Pilot, Fundamental, House A, Academy, Leadership, and the Rindge School of Technical Arts or RSTA.
In 1990, RSTA became a "house" within the main CRLS school. The "Houses" then became "Small Schools" 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The High School Extension Program, at the site of the old Longfellow School, just down Broadway St., offers a nontraditional approach to the high school learning process, handling only 60–100 students at a time.
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[edit] History
CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into a greater whole. In 1648, just twelve years after the founding of Harvard University, a school system was set up in Cambridge (then known as Newtowne), marking it the fifth town (after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole" was born. The school was seen as a supplemental part of Harvard, and gained wide recognition.
- “And by the side of the colledge a faire GRAMMAR Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for ACADEMICALL LEARNING, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the colledge of this Schoole. Master CORLETT is the Mr., who hath very well approved himselfe for his abilities, dexterity and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him.” [2]
Originally Rindge Tech and Cambridge High and Latin, the former began in 1888 by Frederick Hastings Rindge as The Cambridge Manual Training School, and the latter as both Cambridge English High School in 1838 and Cambridge Latin School in 1886. These came together later as Cambridge High and Latin. Finally, in 1977, Rindge Tech and the Cambridge High and Latin High School were merged, with the old Cambridge High and Latin building demolished in 1980. Today a commemorative archway to the old Cambridge High and Latin building can still be observed on the street corner of Broadway and Ellery Streets overlooking the grassy field area of the Joan Lorentz Park.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Ben Affleck, actor
- Casey Affleck, actor and Ben Affleck's brother
- Orson Bean, actor
- Traci Bingham, actress and model
- Max Casella, actor, The Sopranos and Doogie Howser M.D.
- Peggy Cass, actress and comedienne
- Eric Cornell, 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
- E. E. Cummings, poet
- Matt Damon, actor and screenwriter
- Patrick Ewing, NCAA Basketball Champion at Georgetown and NBA player
- Gina Grant, famous for gaining early admission to Harvard, only to have it revoked when it came out that she had killed her mother
- Karl Hobbs, current head coach of the George Washington University Colonials basketball team
- Rumeal Robinson, NCAA Basketball Champion at Michigan and NBA player
- Korczak Ziolkowski, sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial
- For more, see Notable Cambridge Alumni by Stephen G. Surette, the school's unofficial historian
[edit] Register Forum
The school's newspaper, Register Forum, has the distinction of being the oldest continually published public high school newspaper in the country. While technically a club, the Forum encourages all students to submit articles. A typical issue, arriving once a month in its typical tabloid format, includes views on school, global, and local issues, school performance and film reviews, features on "Freshman of the Month" and "Artist of the Month", a cartoon, and several editorials. Occasionally, a CRLS-themed crossword will appear.
[edit] Athletics
Athletics have always played a major part in the school's extracurricular activity structure, and most of the school's 30 teams have received some form of statewide recognition of excellence. Some of the best sports players and coaches in the world have come from the athletics department at CRLS. The 11 fall and winter sports take place between September and Thanksgiving (the day of the Football team's final game), and between the first Monday following Thanksgiving and February/March. The ten spring sports start on the third Monday in March, and finish in late May.
The teams are supported by the fundraising efforts of Friends of Cambridge Athletics (FOCA) who sell "Cambridge Athletics"-branded clothing to subsidize the teams.
- See main web page: CRLS Athletics
