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Ransom Everglades School
School type Private, Independent
Religious affiliation None
Opened 1903
Location Coconut Grove, Florida, USA
Enrollment 2006-2007 850 students
Grades 6-12
Campus surroundings Urban
School Mascot Raider
School colors Mossy Green and Columbia Blue
School Hours 7:45 AM to 3:15 PM
7:45 AM to 2:43 PM on Wednesdays
Average Class Size 12.8
Athletic Rival Gulliver Preparatory School
Ransom Everglades High School's Harry H. Anderson Gymnasium

Ransom Everglades is an independent, co-educational day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys.[1] It's described as a college preparatory school and has a higher than average college matriculation rate for graduates.[citation needed]

Admissions is competitive and tuition costs approximately $22,500 per year.[2] Financial aid is available. Graduating classes tend to number between 115 and 150 students; most continue onto out of state colleges and universities.[citation needed] Despite its size the school has a comprehensive athletic program including twenty two sports.[3]

History

Paul C. Ransom, an educator and New York lawyer, opened Pine Knot Camp in 1896 as a school for boys. In 1902 he combined that with a campus in the Adirondacks of New York to create the Adirondack-Florida School, the first two-campus boarding school. Students would attend classes in the Florida campus in the winter and New York campus in fall and spring.[4] The school suspended operations during World War II. After the war the school reopened in 1947 without the Adirondack campus, continuing in Coconut Grove as the Ransom School for Boys.[5][6][7] Its counterpart, the Everglades School for Girls, began in 1955 founded by Marie B. Swenson.[8] The schools merged and took its current name in 1974.

One of the early buildings still stands on the campus, the pagoda was built in 1902 and served as the original assembly hall for the school.[9] In more recent years it served as the headmaster's office. It's often featured in historic pictures of South Miami, and in 1973 was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[10][11][12]

Campuses

The school occupies two campuses. The upper school serves grades nine through twelve and is located on the shore of Biscayne Bay, the site of the original Pine Knot Camp. This makes it the oldest South Florida school in its original location.[13] The middle school serves grades six through eight and is about one and a half miles from the upper school. It is not located on the water but is a mile away from a residential neighborhood and the restaurants and shops of Coconut Grove.


Pedagogical Approach

In recent years, the school has introduced the Harkness table approach to its classroom dynamic. Ransom has also been a staunch advocate of the use of Wikipedia as a research tool. World-class pedant and pseudo-academic Dr. John King has been one of the resource's strongest advocates. "Wikipedia fuckin rules," King was quoted as saying. "Like, I wouldn't even have a Ph.D. if I hadn't been able to look a buncha shit up on there. Good thing you can cut some corners when you're doin it through the mail. ROFLMAO. Plus, in my spare time I can research all types of cool shit. Like, did you know a gorilla's dick is only 1.5 inches? I thought a big motherfucker like that would be packin' a little more heat. Also, I think Tupac is still alive. I blame that douche LBJ and his faggy Great Society for trying to put it under the rug."

Notable Alumni

Nearby Comparable Schools

References

  1. ^ Klepser (2002) p.59
  2. ^ Peterson's (2008) pp.482-483
  3. ^ Peterson's (2008) p.482
  4. ^ Klepser (2002) p.58
  5. ^ Klepser (2002) p. 59
  6. ^ Parks and Munroe (2004) p. 131
  7. ^ Blanc. Ransom Everglades; Reflections of a School, 1893-1978 (1979) pp. 58-59.
  8. ^ Lovejoy (1969) p.41
  9. ^ Headley (1996) p. 19
  10. ^ Historic Preservation Miami web site article on the Ransom School pagoda
  11. ^ Klepser (2002) p.59
  12. ^ Parks and Munroe (2004) p. 131
  13. ^ Parks and Munroe (2004) p. 131
  14. ^ Daz biography for Mike Malinin
  15. ^ Nee, Eric (2006) Stanford Lawyer Winter 2006 Issue
  16. ^ Williams online biography
  • Headley, Gwyn (1996) Architectural Follies in America ISBN 0471143626
  • Klepser, Carolyn and Arva Moore Parks (2002) Miami Then and Now (Then & Now) Thunder Bay Press, ISBN 1571458522
  • Lovejoy, Clarence Earle (1963) Lovejoy's Prep School Guide
  • Peterson's (2008) Private Secondary Schools 2008 ISBN 0768923999
  • Pincus, Laura and Arva Moore Parks. (2003) Honor & Excellence: A Century Of Ransom Everglades School. Centennial Press, ISBN 0974158917
  • Parks, Avra Moore and Munroe, Ralph (2004) The Forgotten Frontier: Florida Through the Lens of Ralph Middleton Munroe ISBN 0974158925
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