Collegiate School (New York City)
Collegiate School is a private school for boys in New York City. It claims to be the oldest school in the United States.[2][3] It is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a member of both the New York Interschool and the Ivy Preparatory School League. In 2023–2024, tuition fees totaled $63,400 per year.[4]
This article is about the New York City school founded in 1628. For other uses, see Collegiate School (disambiguation).Collegiate School
1628
The Rev. Jonas Michaelius and the Dutch West India Company
Jonathan Youngwood ’85
David S. Lourie
656 (2019–2020)[1]
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Orange and blue
Dutchmen
The Journal
The Dutchman
School seal and mottos[edit]
Collegiate's seal is an adaptation of the coat of arms of William of Orange, who founded the Dutch Republic and the Reformed Church in that country and led the cause of independence and of freedom for the Reformed Church against Philip II of Spain. Included in the school's seal are two mottos: Eendracht Maakt Macht, Dutch for "In unity there is strength", and Nisi Dominus Frustra, Latin for "unless God, then in vain." The History and Symbols Task Force recommended in its June 2020 report that the latter be replaced, owing to its explicitly religious nature and Collegiate's status as a secular institution.[10]
Rankings[edit]
In 2007, The Wall Street Journal ranked Collegiate first in the world in terms of percent of the senior class matriculating to eight selective American colleges.[20]
Sports and co-curricular activities[edit]
The school's athletic success has mainly been with the varsity basketball, baseball, track and field, soccer, and cross country teams. The Collegiate soccer team won the NYSAIS state championship in 2010, 2011, and 2012.[21]| The Collegiate varsity basketball team won five straight state championships in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[21] The Collegiate cross country team won 25 Ivy League Championships in a row from 1990 to 2014.[21] The Collegiate wrestling team won their first Ivy League and NYSAIS titles in 2022. Collegiate also has a golf and tennis team. Students not participating in a sport take physical education. Yearly fitness tests are administered in the lower and middle schools.
The school has a number of clubs, especially in the Upper School, including The Collegiate Journal. its newspaper operating since 1932; The Dutchman, the yearbook published every year since 1906; and Prufrock. its literary magazine, first published in 1973.[22]