Wichita Collegiate School
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Wichita Collegiate School, known locally as Collegiate, is a private, co-educational, non-denominational, and non-profit college preparatory day school founded in 1963 currently enrolling 966 students from preschool through 12th grade located at 9115 E. 13th Street, Wichita
Kansas
, 67206. The headmaster is Tom Davis. Wichita Collegiate School has built a statewide reputation for academic excellence. The school motto is: "Proba te Dignum" (Latin for "Prove Yourself Worthy")
but he parted ways with that organization over its support for the Vietnam War
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, Wichita Collegiate School is listed as a "non-accredited non-public" school by the Kansas Department of Education. Wichita Collegiate School is one of 82 schools that are members of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and the only ISAS member in Kansas.
Duke University
's Talent Identification Program has designated Wichita Collegiate School as a local partner for its gifted program. The Kansas Board of Regents
recognizes Wichita Collegiate School courses as meeting its Qualified Admissions requirements.
Wichita Collegiate School has regularly taken 1st, 2nd or 3rd place statewide in the Science Olympiad
for Kansas Division C small schools over a period of many years. The Wichita Collegiate School average enrollment is 60 students per graduating class with an average class size of 15 students; 100% of its 72 high school graduates in 2006 went on to college. Mean SAT
test scores were critical reading: 570; math: 590; and writing: 570.
's official recognition of Wichita Collegiate teacher Jenifer Sinsel, the 2006 National Finalist in science at its July 2007 meeting. Sinsel has since left Collegiate. Sinsel is also the 2007 recipient of the National Science Teachers Association
Sylvia Shugrue Award. Sinsel was one of only 20 teachers from throughout the United States to be selected by NASA
to be in the first class in the Airspace Systems Education Cohort.
Wichita Collegiate School chemistry teacher Janice Crowley received the Milken Family Foundation
Educator Pathfinder Award for leading her students in investigating a carcinogenic source of breast cancer in area fast food restaurants.
Crowley also was named in Reader's Digest
's "America's 100 Best" and has been designated Regional Outstanding Chemistry Teacher by the American Chemical Society
.
Wichita Private High Schools
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
, 67206. The headmaster is Tom Davis. Wichita Collegiate School has built a statewide reputation for academic excellence. The school motto is: "Proba te Dignum" (Latin for "Prove Yourself Worthy")
History
Wichita Collegiate School was originally conceived in the 1950s as an alternative to Wichita public education. Its name was originally Wichita Independent Day School. The founder and first chairman of Wichita Collegiate claimed in his book, How to Start Your Own School, that, "Traditional private and parochial schools either eagerly emulate public institutions or are coerced by the state into doing so through acceptance of government accreditation and certification regulations ... Collegiate was independent of both church and state from the beginning for very practical reasons. All of us had already rejected state-run schools as being a restrictive, inefficient way to educate children. To be consistent, we decided against any association with the state in our new education venture. This meant no special legislative favors, no participation in government loan or grant programs, no state accreditation, and no requirement that we hire only certified teachers." Robert Love was also a member of the National Council of the Libertarian John Birch SocietyJohn Birch Society
The John Birch Society is an American political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a Constitutional Republic and personal freedom. It has been described as radical right-wing....
but he parted ways with that organization over its support for the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
.
Contributions
WCS has subsequently received large contributions from John Birch Society philanthropists, including 17 charitable donations totaling $3,343,347 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation between 1986 and 1997.Academics
Wichita Collegiate School is an independent, private school. Because it has not sought the requirements for state accreditationAccreditation
Accreditation is a process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented.Organizations that issue credentials or certify third parties against official standards are themselves formally accredited by accreditation bodies ; hence they are sometimes known as "accredited...
, Wichita Collegiate School is listed as a "non-accredited non-public" school by the Kansas Department of Education. Wichita Collegiate School is one of 82 schools that are members of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and the only ISAS member in Kansas.
Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
's Talent Identification Program has designated Wichita Collegiate School as a local partner for its gifted program. The Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas Board of Regents
The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...
recognizes Wichita Collegiate School courses as meeting its Qualified Admissions requirements.
Wichita Collegiate School has regularly taken 1st, 2nd or 3rd place statewide in the Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
for Kansas Division C small schools over a period of many years. The Wichita Collegiate School average enrollment is 60 students per graduating class with an average class size of 15 students; 100% of its 72 high school graduates in 2006 went on to college. Mean SAT
SAT
The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
test scores were critical reading: 570; math: 590; and writing: 570.
Faculty
The faculty at Wichita Collegiate School have received many honors. Some recent examples include the Kansas State Board of EducationKansas State Board of Education
Kansas State Department Board of Education is Kansas's Board of Education, headquartered in Topeka. The board of education that controls the department is a constitutional body established in Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution. The ten members of the Board of Education are each elected to...
's official recognition of Wichita Collegiate teacher Jenifer Sinsel, the 2006 National Finalist in science at its July 2007 meeting. Sinsel has since left Collegiate. Sinsel is also the 2007 recipient of the National Science Teachers Association
National Science Teachers Association
The National Science Teachers Association , founded in 1944 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is an association of science teachers in the United States and is the largest organization of science teachers worldwide...
Sylvia Shugrue Award. Sinsel was one of only 20 teachers from throughout the United States to be selected by NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
to be in the first class in the Airspace Systems Education Cohort.
Wichita Collegiate School chemistry teacher Janice Crowley received the Milken Family Foundation
Milken Family Foundation
The Milken Family Foundation is a private foundation established by Lowell Milken and Michael Milken in 1982. Lowell Milken serves as chairman and co-founder of the foundation.-Goals:...
Educator Pathfinder Award for leading her students in investigating a carcinogenic source of breast cancer in area fast food restaurants.
Crowley also was named in Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
's "America's 100 Best" and has been designated Regional Outstanding Chemistry Teacher by the American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical...
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Athletics
Wichita Collegiate School's teams, the Spartans, have captured numerous state titles. These include four boys' state baseball championships, five boys' state basketball championships, three boys' state football championships, twelve boys' state golf championships and seventeen boys' state tennis championships; as well as one girls' state basketball championship. The girls' tennis team has won seventeen of the state championships in the past eighteen years, missing only the year '99-'00.State championships
| State Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Sport | Number of Championships | Year |
| Fall | Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by... |
3 | 1994, 2000, 2009 |
| Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive... |
1 | 2009 | |
| Winter | Basketball, Boys Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... |
5 | 1993, 1996, 2007, 2009, 2010 |
| Basketball, Girls Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... |
1 | 2006, 2010 | |
| Spring | Golf, Boys Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... |
15 | 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
| Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... |
4 | 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001 | |
| Tennis, Boys Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... |
17 | 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 | |
| Tennis, Girls Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... |
17 | 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 | |
| Total | 63 | ||
Notable alumni
- R. C. BufordR. C. BufordR. C. Buford is the general manager of the San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball team. He was given the title by his predecessor, Gregg Popovich, in 2002 after five seasons as team president. He is also the president of sports franchises for Spurs Sports & Entertainment.Buford played college basketball...
, general manager for the San Antonio SpursSan Antonio SpursThe San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association .... - DeAngelo Evans, former football player for the Nebraska CornhuskersNebraska CornhuskersThe Nebraska Cornhuskers is the name given to several sports teams of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference...
- Maurice EvansMaurice Evans (basketball)Maurice Eugene Evans is an American professional basketball player who most recently played with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. A 6 ft 5 in guard/forward, Evans weighs 220 lb...
, NBA player for the Atlanta HawksAtlanta HawksThe Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association .-The first years:... - Raj GoyleRaj GoyleRajeev Kumar Goyle is a Democratic politician from Kansas, who represented the 87th District in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for .-Early life, education and career:...
, State Representative and 2010 Democratic candidate for Kansas's 4th congressional districtKansas's 4th congressional districtKansas's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Based in the south central part of the state, the district encompasses 11 counties including the city of Wichita....
See also
Wichita Public High Schools- Wichita East High School
- Wichita North High SchoolWichita North High SchoolWichita North High School, known locally as North, is a fully accredited high school located in Wichita, Kansas, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. Wichita North was founded in 1929 on the site where the United States government sent Company 'A' of the 10th Division to the forks of the Arkansas...
- Wichita Heights High SchoolWichita Heights High SchoolWichita Heights High School, known locally as Heights, is a coeducational secondary school located in Wichita, Kansas, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. The school is part of the USD 259 public school system. The school principal is Mr. Bruce Deterding, who replaced Mr. Mark Christian after...
- Wichita Northeast Magnet High SchoolWichita Northeast Magnet High SchoolWichita Northeast Magnet High School, known locally as Northeast, is a magnet high school located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is in the Wichita School District. The current principal is Gil Alvarez. Wichita Northeast Magnet High School is the first magnet high school in Kansas. The magnet...
- Wichita Northwest High SchoolWichita Northwest High SchoolWichita Northwest High School, known locally as Northwest, is a fully accredited public high school located in Wichita, Kansas, USA that serves over 1500 students in grades 9-12.-History:The school opened in 1978...
- Wichita South High SchoolWichita South High SchoolWichita South High School, known locally as South, is a fully accredited high school, serving students in grades 9-12, located in Wichita, Kansas, USA. It is also known as Wichita High School South. The school colors are blue and red and the enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is 1,657...
- Wichita Southeast High School
- Wichita West High SchoolWichita West High SchoolWichita West High School, known locally as West, is a fully accredited high school located in Wichita, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12. The high school is located close to downtown Wichita, and is near U.S. Route 54...
Wichita Private High Schools
- Bishop Carroll Catholic High SchoolBishop Carroll Catholic High SchoolBishop Carroll Catholic High School, sometimes called Carroll or BC, is a private high school located in Wichita, Kansas. Along with Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School, it is one of two Catholic high schools in the city. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita. Bishop Carroll graduates...
- Kapaun Mt. Carmel High SchoolKapaun Mt. Carmel High SchoolKapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School, sometimes called Kapaun, is a private, four year, co-educational, secondary school operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita. The mission of the school is to form the total person in the image of Jesus Christ...
External links
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- Annual Awards Presentation by Governor Kathleen Sebelius 2004
- Journal of Chemical Education "Classroom Research: GC Studies of Linoleic and Linolenic Fatty Acids Found in French Fries" J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 824
- Gautum Agarwal, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, "Lithium peroxide based electric propulsion system for an airplane for Mars exploration"
- Edwin G. West, "The Uneasy Case for State Education," Center for Independent Education of Wichita Collegiate School
- University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, "Inventory of the Robert Love Center for Independent Education Collection, 1968-1971"
- Kansas Association of Chemistry Teachers "2007 Winning HS Scholarship Essay"