Kent Denver School

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Location
Kent Denver School
4000 E. Quincy Avenue Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113-4916 United States
Information
President	Kim Davis
Principal	Todd Horn
Enrollment	657 (220 in the middle school and 437 in the upper school)
Type	Private
Grades	6-12
Campus size	200 Acres
Athletics	3A
Athletics conference	Metropolitan League
Mascot	The Sun Devil
Color(s)	Dark Blue, Red, and white.
Established	1922
Information	303-770-7660
Homepage	kentdenver.org

Kent Denver School is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian college preparatory high school and middle school in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. It traces its origin back to the 1922 founding of the Kent School for Girls, and has existed as a co-educational institution since 1974.

The Kent School for Girls was founded by Mary Austin Bogue, Mary Louise Rathvon and Mary Kent Wallace on Sherman Street in Denver in 1922. The Denver Country Day School, an all-men's high school, was founded by Andrews D. Black and Tom Chaffee in 1953, and the two schools relocated to the spacious Blackmer Estate in Cherry Hills Village in the 1960s. The schools operated side-by-side and with joint science classes until they merged at the behest of Andrews Black in 1974. Since then the school has been known as Kent Denver Country Day School, a name that continues to be seen on old athletic jerseys, and its current name, Kent Denver School.

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Kent Denver is located on the historic Blackmer Estate at Colorado Boulevard and Quincy Avenue in Cherry Hills Village, one of the wealthiest communities in Colorado. The 200 acre campus is centered on two lakes and bordered by the Highline Canal. The campus houses 43 classrooms in four main building complexes. The old boys' school is now the middle school, housing grades 6 through 8 at the bottom of what is simply known as "The Hill". Likewise, the upper school, grades 9 through 12, are housed in the old girls' school.

Most student life is centered on the Bogue Common Room, a former courtyard that was walled in to create a meeting place with a cafe for the upper school. Until the recent completion of the Student Center for the Arts, most all-upper-school meetings took place here. Adjacent to the common room and the main upper school hallway is the Boettcher Foundation Library, which contains over 20,000 titles and two dozen computer workstations.

Science classes were held from before the merger to 2001 in the Gates Science Center, situated between the library and the middle school. A significant renovation that year connected the library with the Science Center (known to students simply as "Gates") with new classroom, laboratory and office space. The Gates Science Center is also home to an electron microscope, aquarium, and three computer labs. The new building also houses a sundial tower.

The theatre, music and visual arts departments recently relocated to the Student Center for the Arts, completed in 2006, which houses the 500-seat Anschutz Family Theatre. This is intended to replace El Pomar Hall, which as a converted dining hall was inadequate as a performance space. El Pomar has been renovated, and serves as a smaller, 125-seat performing arts venue.