Randolph School

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Randolph School
Address
Randolph School
1005 Drake Avenue Southeast

Huntsville, Alabama
35802

United States
Coordinates 34°42′22″N86°33′29″W / 34.706°N 86.558°W / 34.706; -86.558
Information
Type Private college preparatory
MottoDiligentes Ad Veritatem Quaerendam
(Diligent in Seeking Truth)
Established1959(65 years ago) (1959)
CEEB code 011475
Head of schoolAdam Dubé
Faculty150
Enrollment967 [1]  (2016)
Average class size13 students
Student to teacher ratio8:1
Campus size67 acres (27 ha)
Campus type Suburban
Color(s)Blue, white, and gray
   
SloganSeeking Truth. Building Character. Nurturing all.
Team nameRaiders
Endowment$25 Million
School fees$22,391
Graduates2600+
Website www.randolphschool.net
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Randolph School is an American independent private Pre-K-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It started in a home on Randolph Avenue in downtown Huntsville with a handful of elementary classes. A few years later it moved to a much larger 17-acre (6.9 ha) campus on Drake Avenue, where it is now located, gradually adding grade levels until having a graduating high school class in the early 1970s.

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In 1998, the school purchased 50 acres (20 ha) of land on Garth Road, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Drake Avenue campus. The new high school opened for the 2009–2010 school year. For the fine arts, the new facilities include a new theater with stadium seating, a workshop for stagecraft, band and choral rooms, and new restroom facilities. In total, Randolph has two gymnasiums, four tennis courts, two practice fields and professionally maintained fields for football, baseball, softball and soccer. [2]

Athletics

Randolph School athletic teams have won 51 AHSAA state titles and finished as runners up 51 times. [3] Randolph athletes have also taken home 24 individuals state titles. Most varsity teams currently compete in the AHSAA 4A division. [4] The Randolph boys have won the Cross Country State Championships in 1982, as well as 2005–2013, setting a new state record for most consecutive state championship wins in Alabama with 9. They were runners up in 2014 and 2018. The girls Cross Country team won in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1996, and 1998, and were runners-up in 2013, 2014 and 2015. [5]

Notable alumni

Its alumni include many of the children of the German rocket scientists that moved to Huntsville with Wernher von Braun after World War II. Other notable alumni include:

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  4. ↑ "AHSAA Handbook 2018-19" (PDF). ahsaa.com. Alabama High School Athletic Association. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ 2018 AHSAA CROSS COUNTRY STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (2018 ed.). Oakville Indian Mounds Park: AHSAA. November 10, 2018. pp. 23, 44.
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  7. ↑ "Star Alum Returns". Randolph School. November 2, 2005. Retrieved September 15, 2006.
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