Hotchkiss School
| Hotchkiss School | |
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| main building | |
| type of school | private high school with boarding school |
| founding | 1891 |
| address |
11 Interlaken Road |
| place | Lakeville |
| State | Connecticut |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 56 '42 " N , 73 ° 26' 23" W |
| student | 600 |
| Teachers | 156 |
| management | Craig W. Bradley |
| Website | www.hotchkiss.org |
The Hotchkiss School is one of the most prestigious and wealthiest high schools in the United States. It is based in Lakeville , Connecticut .
It was founded in 1891 by Maria Harrison Bitchell Hotchkiss at the instigation of then President of Yale University , Timothy Dwight V. Girls have been admitted to the original boys' school since 1974. The campus covers around 2.2 km² (545 acres ), is picturesquely situated between two lakes and is partly forested. It also includes a sports complex opened in 2002 and a golf course.
In the 2019/20 school year, the school had 600 students, 16% of them foreigners. 96% of the students live on the school premises ( boarding school ), the rest only attend school during the day.
To raise the annual tuition fee of $ 52,240 ($ 61,440 including boarding school; both as of 2019), about 33% of students receive financial help from the school, totaling about $ 10.12 million. 72% of the 156 teachers have a degree beyond a bachelor's degree , which is not necessary for teachers in the USA.
About 10% of the annual budget is covered by donations from former students ( alumni ), for example from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004, 3,295,966 US dollars were donated for this purpose. The budget is also funded from the proceeds of the endowment of $ 483.4 million.
Well-known alumni
- John G. Avildsen , director (including Rocky and Karate Kid )
- Jonathan Bush , an uncle of US President George W. Bush
- Walter P Chrysler, Jr. , industrialist, son of Walter Chrysler
- Herbert Dow , founder of the Dow Chemical Company
- Charles Edison , New Jersey Governor , son of Thomas Edison
- Edsel Ford President of the Ford Motor Company , son of Henry Ford
- Henry Ford II President of the Ford Motor Company
- Varian Fry , journalist and resistance fighter
- Porter Goss , Director of the CIA
- Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale University
- Ernest Gruening Alaska Governor Senator
- Briton Hadden Co- Founder of Time Magazine
- John Hammond , music producer (discovered Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen , among others )
- John Hersey , writer and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Allison Janney , actress, Emmy Award winner
- Lawrence M. Judd , Governor of Hawaii
- Lewis H. Lapham , editor of Harper's Magazine
- Winston Lord , US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985–1989
- Henry Luce , co-founder of Time Magazine
- Archibald MacLeish Poet , Poet Laureate , Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Paul Nitze , Minister of the Navy
- Clark T. Randt, Jr. , US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001–2009
- Tom Reiss , author and journalist
- Dickinson W. Richards , Nobel Prize Winner
- William Warren Scranton , Pennsylvania Governor , US Ambassador to the United Nations
- Harold Stanley , founder of Morgan Stanley
- Potter Stewart , Supreme Court Justice
- John L. Thornton President of Goldman Sachs
- Charles Yost US Ambassador to the United Nations
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Facts & Figures on the Hotchkiss School website
- ↑ History & Traditions , on the school's website ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed May 30, 2007)
- ↑ The Hotchkiss Fund FAQ , on the school's website ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed May 30, 2007)
