Rye Country Day School
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tri-state area. The School's $5.9 million financial aid budget provides significant tuition grants to the families of 143 students (16%) in the school. 35% of RCDS students self-identify as people of color.[4][5]
AcademicsRCDS has three divisions: Lower (Gr. K-4), Middle (Gr. 5-8), and Upper (Gr. 9-12). The school also offers a Pre-K program. AthleticsStarting in Grade 7, students play interscholastic sports. RCDS has a 45,000-square-foot Athletic Center with basketball and squash courts, locker rooms, a fitness center, and an athletic training room. The sports program has full-time coaches, as well as teachers who coach. Fall Sports: Cross Country, Field Hockey, Football, Volleyball, and Soccer. Campus facilitiesThe 35-acre campus includes academic buildings; two libraries; administrative buildings; a separate performing arts center with classrooms dance studio and a 450-seat theater-auditorium; a 23,000 square-foot innovative creative arts center; a 40,000 square-foot athletic center; and 4 turf fields. Arts Facilities Athletics Facilities HistoryRye Country Day School was founded in 1869, when a group of local parents contacted the Reverend William Life and his wife, Susan, who ran a small school in Pennsylvania. The Lifes came to Rye and established the Rye Female Seminary under the direction of Susan Life. During its first year, 1869, sixty students (25 boarders and 35 day students) enrolled. The school was located on the present school property on Grandview Avenue. In 1896, two members of the faculty. Harriet and Mary Stowe, purchased the school. The Stowe sisters initiated significant changes in the curriculum, introducing college preparatory programs for the young women. A group of parents bought the Seminary in 1917 and established it as a nonprofit day school under the direction of a board of trustees. The year 1921 saw the Seminary merge with a boys' school from nearby Harrison, the Rye Country School, and became known as the Rye Country Day Schools. In 1928, the "s" was dropped from the word "Schools". At this time, the School offered a program for girls from kindergarten through grade twelve, and a program for boys from kindergarten through grade nine. In 1964 the board of trustees extended the enrollment for boys through grade twelve.[6] Stephen Birmingham asserted in 1978 that the school was "elitist by design" and claimed that it was "a symbol of the gulf that exists between the wealthy and the less well off in the community" because there was allegedly no social contact between the students from the private school and those from the public.[7] Notable alumni
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