Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville Collegiate School is a junior kindergarten-12th grade, co-ed independent day school located in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1915, the school enrolls 640 students at 2427 Glenmary Avenue.

Academics

Lower school

• 70% of Lower school teachers hold advanced degrees;
• The average class size is 15;
• 5 sports are offered at 5th grade;
• 8 ActiveBoards and SmartBoards

Middle school

• 2,540 community service hours are completed annually by students;
• 92% of students participate in athletics;
• 30% of students are on academic competition teams;

Upper school

• The average Upper school class size is 13;
• The student to teacher ratio is 8:1;
• 1252 – five year average SAT Composite;
• 100% of senior graduates are accepted into college

2009-2010 academic honors

• Five National Merit finalists.
• Collegiate named the number one school for high school mathematics in Louisville by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
• Third year in a row that Collegiate has earned a higher Challenge Index score than any public high school in the state of Kentucky, according to Newsweek magazine’s annual ranking of American high schools.

Athletics

Some of the colleges that former student athletes have competed at include the University of Chicago, Dartmouth College, High Point University, University of Kentucky, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Middlebury College, Saint Louis University, Stanford University, Wake Forest University and the University of Wisconsin.

Since 2009, five Varsity Coaches (field hockey, boys’ lacrosse, boys’ soccer, swimming, cross country) have been named “Coach of the Year.”

In 2009, Titan Soccer ended their season ranked #4 in the end-of season poll, the Titan and Amazon Cross Country teams were crowned Class A Region 3 Champions, and Varsity Field Hockey were state runners-up.

Fall sports:

• Field hockey,
• Soccer,
• Golf,
• Cross country

Winter sports:

• Basketball,
• Swimming

Spring sports:

• Crew,
• Fast-pitch softball,
• Lacrosse,
• Tennis,
• Track

Fine arts

Lower, Middle and Upper School students fine arts curriculum is:

• Visual art (drawing, painting, printmaking, 3D sculpture);
• Vocal music;
• Instrumental music;
• Drama;
• Field trips;
• Visiting artists

History

Louisville Collegiate School opened its doors on September 23, 1915 in a house at 512 West Ormsby Avenue, becoming the first school in Kentucky committed to preparing young women for college. Virginia Perrin Speed (1879–1968) and her husband William Shallcross Speed (1873–1955) were the principal founders and sustainers of the school, and are largely responsible for the school’s success

Needing more land to grow, Collegiate moved in 1927 to its current home on Glenmary Avenue in the historic Highlands, just east of downtown Louisville, in what is now the Lower School.

Although the school initially accepted boys in the primary grades, it remained traditionally a girls’ school until 1972 when the Lower School became coeducational.

In 1980, Collegiate’s Board of Trustees established coeducation in the Upper School. To accommodate the increase in enrollment, Willig Hall was built in 1983 to house the Upper School. The first coed class graduated in 1987.

As part of the school’s Master Plan, Collegiate launched a campaign in 2001 to expand its Upper School because of the growth Collegiate was experiencing. Collegiate expanded its Upper School into a 62,500-square-foot (5,810 m2) building that houses 17 classrooms, seven study areas, three science labs and two computer labs. In 2008, Collegiate launched a Junior Kindergarten.

Notable alumni

• Sallie Bingham 1954, author and playwright
• Kathy Nash Cary 1972, chef/owner of Lilly's Restaurant
• Tori Murden McClure 1981, first woman to row solo across the Atlantic
• Jane Metcalfe 1979, co-founder of Wired Magazine
• Cornelia Atherton Serpell 1935, mental health activist
• Ian Shapira 1996, staff writer at The Washington Post, shared a Pulitizer Prize with other Post staffers for Virginia Tech shooting coverage.

References

External links

• Louisville Collegiate School homepage
• Louisville Collegiate School on Facebook
• Louisville Collegiate School on Flickr