The Latin School of Chicago
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The Latin School of Chicago is a private elementary, middle and high school
in the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago
. The school was founded in 1888 by Mabel Slade Vickery.
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High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. The school was founded in 1888 by Mabel Slade Vickery.
History
The Latin School of Chicago was founded in 1888 by a group of Chicago citizens interested in providing better education for their children. Miss Mabel Slade Vickery, a New England teacher, was asked to come to Chicago, and the school was opened with a small class of boys. The first classes were held in private homes on the Near North Side. The parent-owned institution, which soon became known as "Miss Vickery's School," flourished, and, in 1896, Miss Vickery, with Robert Peck Bates, her new associate, was invited to expand the school, which at that time numbered 125 boys. In 1899, the school moved to a brand new building owned by Miss Vickery and Mr. Bates and became the first Chicago Latin School. In 1913 a girls' section was incorporated by Miss Vickery as the Chicago Latin School for Girls, with its own building at 59 East Scott Street. The Boys' School and the Girls' Latin School of Chicago merged in 1953 to form the present school. Thus, The Latin School of Chicago has grown from 10 boys to more than 1000 boys and girls in junior kindergarten through twelfth grade and from a small library in a LaSalle Street home to a three-building campus alongside Lincoln Park.Approach
The Latin School has always had the tradition of being an academically conservative school with a strong grounding in the Humanities and the Classics. High school curriculum requires four years of English and a minimum of three years of other subjects. Latin also offers the highest number of AP classes per capita and has a thriving system of Independent Studies.Campus
The current campus has three buildings. The Lower School (Junior Kindergarten to grade 4) building is the oldest structure dating to 1926 and is located at 1531 N. Dearborn. The Upper School (grades 9-12) building at 59 W. North was completed in 1969. The Middle School (grades 5-8) building located at 45 W. North was completed in the fall of 2007. There is a connecting bridge from the second floor of the Middle School building to the second floor of the Upper School building, going over an alley. It allows students to walk between both schools without going outside. The Upper School building was designed by internationally acclaimed architect Harry WeeseHarry Weese
Harry Mohr Weese was an American architect, born in Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago suburbs, who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation...
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Notable alumni
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