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Ransom Everglades is an independent, non-profit, co-educational, college-preparatory day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys.〔Klepser (2002) p.59〕 It's described as a college preparatory school and 100% of Ransom Everglades' students attend a four-year institution after graduation. Admission is competitive and tuition costs $34,100 per year (2015–16). Financial aid is available. Graduating classes tend to number between 140 and 160 students (2007-2010 average: 142); approximately 85% continue onto out-of-state colleges and universities. Despite its size, the school has a comprehensive athletic program with over 70 teams among 18 interscholastic sports.〔Peterson's (2008) p.482〕 Over 90% of the student body participates in team sports. Ransom Everglades is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Independent Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Membership is held in the Southern and National Associations for College Admission Counseling, the National Association of Independent Schools, and the College Entrance Examination Board, among others. == 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.〔Klepser (2002) p.58〕〔Parks and Munroe (2004) p. 131〕 The school suspended operations during World War II. After the war the school reopened in 1947. In 1949 the Adirondack campus was shut down and the school continued in Coconut Grove as the Ransom School for Boys.〔Klepser (2002) p. 59〕〔Blanc (1979) pp. 58-59 and p. 84.〕 Ransom School changed from a boarding to a day school in 1972.〔Blanc (1979) p. 95.〕 Its counterpart, the Everglades School for Girls, began in 1955 founded by Marie B. Swenson.〔Lovejoy (1969) p.41〕 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 1912 and served as the original library for the school.〔Headley (1996) p. 19〕 In more recent years it has served as the Head of School's office. It's often featured in historic pictures of South Miami, and in 1973 was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.〔〔〔(Historic Preservation Miami web site article on the Ransom School pagoda )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ransom Everglades School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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