Established 1915 Grades 6-12 Average class size 12 students Phone +1 781-235-9300 | Head of school Ned Parsons Enrollment 489 (2014-2015) Tuition 45,590 USD Endowment 22.3 million USD | |
Type Independent, Day, Coeducational Motto "Excellence with Humanity" Profiles | ||
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The Rivers School is an independent, coeducational preparatory school in Weston, Massachusetts.
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- Rivers school open gym
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- History
- Academics
- Athletics
- The Rivers School Conservatory
- Clubs and cocurriculars
- Notable alumni
- References
Rivers' Middle School program includes grades 6-8, while its Upper School program includes grades 9-12. As of 2014, 489 students are enrolled from 70 Massachusetts towns. The Rivers School's endowment was $22.3 million for the 2014-15 academic year.
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History
The school was founded in 1915 as a school for boys at its first location in Brookline, Massachusetts. The founder and first headmaster was Robert W. Rivers. The Country Day School for Boys of Boston merged with Rivers in 1940. The school moved to its present location in Weston in 1960. It became co-educational in 1989.
Academics
Rivers offers the following Advanced Placement classes:
Athletics
Rivers competes in the Independent School League. The Rivers School campus has more than 12 acres (49,000 m2) of playing fields that includes Waterman Field, a 54,000-square-foot (5,000 m2) multi-sport synthetic turf field, as well as six outdoor tennis courts.
Indoor athletic facilities include the Haffenreffer Gymnasium with a full size basketball court and the 78,000- square foot MacDowell Athletic Center which contains:
Rivers has boys and girls varsity teams in the following sports:
The Rivers School Conservatory
The Rivers School Conservatory was founded in 1975 by Ethel Bernard, one of the pioneers of the music school movement. She approached the Rivers School with the idea of using the then unoccupied former headmaster’s house on the campus (now called Blackwell House after George H. Blackwell) of the then all-boys college preparatory school.
It was first called the Music School at Rivers, then Rivers School Conservatory. In 1978, the Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young was established. It was the subject of a WGBH-TV documentary that was broadcast internationally by PBS. Seminar guests have included John Cage (1983). All pieces performed are composed in the 25-year period prior to each seminar. Many were premières and several dozen were commissioned pieces. Recent examples include Matineé: The Fantom of the Fair by Libby Larsen.
The Conservatory presently has over 750 students, including a student orchestra program, jazz and chamber ensembles, music theory and composition, its critically acclaimed Marimba Magic program, choruses, master classes, workshops, and private lessons on every orchestral and jazz instrument, piano, and voice.
Notable alumni include Matthew Aucoin, whose teacher was Sharon Schoffman.
The Boston Globe has reviewed some of its concerts.