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Cambridge Rindge and Latin
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Crest of Moanalua High School
Name Cambridge Rindge and Latin
Address 459 Broadway
Town Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Established See Article
Community Urban
Type Public Secondary
Religion Secular
Students Coeducational
Grades 9 to 12
Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges (Barely)
District Cambridge Public School District
Nickname CRLS or Rindge
Mascot Falcon
Colors Black and Gray/Silver
Newspaper The Register Forum
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Website [Link]
Email [Link]

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Cambridge Rindge and Latin is the only public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Once two separate schools called Cambridge High and Latin and the Rindge School of Technical Arts, the merged entity today is now commonly abbreviated as CRLS or Rindge. The school is host to over 2000 students from various nationalities.

The students are divided into subdivisions which seem to change name and geography within the building every year. Currently the "Small Learning Communities" are called C, R, L, and S. Previously until June, 2000, the subdivided schools were known as the Houses of Pilot, Fundamental, House A, Leadership, Academy, and Rindge School of Technical Arts (RSTA).

In 1990, RSTA became a "house" within the main CRLS school. The "Houses" then became "Small Schools" 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (before School 4 was removed just prior to the 2004-2005 school year). The High School Extension Program, at the site of the old Longfellow School, just down Broadway St., offers a non-traditional approach to the High School learning process, handling only 60-100 students at a time.

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History

CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into one greater whole. In 1648, just twelve years after the founding of Harvard University, a school system was set up in Newtowne, marking it the fifth town (after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole" was born. The school was seen as a supplemental part of Harvard, and gained wide recognition.

“And by the side of the colledge a faire GRAMMAR Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for ACADEMICALL LEARNING, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the colledge of this Schoole. Master CORLETT is the Mr., who hath very well approved himselfe for his abilities, dexterity and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him.” [link]
Originally Rindge Tech and Cambridge High and Latin, the former began in 1888 by Frederick Hastings Rindge as The Cambridge Manual Training School, and the latter as both Cambridge English High School in 1838 and Cambridge Latin School in 1886, which came together later too and became Cambridge High and Latin. Finally, in 1977, the two schools Rindge Tech and the Cambridge High and Latin High School were merged, with the old Cambridge High and Latin building—then made mostly of wood—being finally torn down in 1980. Today a commemorative archway to the old Cambridge High and Latin building can still be observed on the street corner of Broadway and Ellery Streets overlooking the grassy field area of the Joan Lorentz Park.

Notable alumni

For more, see [Notable Cambridge Alumni] by Stephen G. Surette, the school's unofficial historian

Register Forum

The school's newspaper, [Register Forum], has the distinction of being the oldest continually published public high school newspaper in the country. While technically a club, the Forum encourages all students to submit articles to be published. A typical issue, arriving once a month in its typical tabloid format, includes views on school, global, and local issues, school performance and film reviews, features on "Freshman of the Month" and "Artist of the Month", a cartoon, and several editorials. Occasionally, a CRLS-themed crossword will appear in the back of the issue.

Athletics

Athletics have always played a major part in the school's extracurricular activity structure, and most of the school's 30 teams have received statewide recognition of excellence in some form or another. Some of the best sports players and coaches in the world came from the athletics department at CRLS. The 11 Fall and Winter sports take place between September and Thanksgiving Day (the Football team's final game); and the first Monday following Thanksgiving and February/March, respectively. The 10 Spring sports start on the third Monday in March, and finish in late May. The teams are supported by the fund-raising efforts of Friends of Cambridge Athletics (FOCA) who sell Cambridge Athletics-branded clothing to subsidize the teams. The school's rowing rivalry with Cambridge private school Buckingham Browne & Nichols continues with an annual eights race, the Mayor's Cup Regatta.

See main web page: [CRLS Athletics]

Deans and Administration

Administration

Principal: Dr. Christopher Saheed

Coordinator of Guidance: Lynn Williams

[ Dean of Curriculum: To Be Determined Dean of Students: Robert Tynes

Guidance Councilors: Serafim Da Cunha, George Finn, Stephanie Richards

[ Dean of Curriculum: Damon Smith

Dean of Students: Maxine Berry

Guidance Councilors: Brian Downes, Lorraine Davis, Stephanie Richards

[ Dean of Curriculum: Candace A. Dunlap

Dean of Students: Maria Filomena Silva

Guidance Councilors: Yvon Lamour, Larry Poirier, Jodi Mace

[ Dean of Curriculum: Kathleen Wamness

Dean of Students: Lance Dottin

Guidance Councilors: Jack Costello, Gordie Axtman, Jodi Mace

RSTA

Executive Director: Dr. Michael V. Ananis

Vocational Coordinator: Diane Paradis

High School Extension Program

Principal: Dr. Joseph R. Dolan

See also

External links

 

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