Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
high school in Massachusetts, United States
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (also known as "CRLS" or "Rindge") is a public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is a part of the Cambridge Public School District. In 1977, Cambridge Rindge and Latin was established as a merger of Rindge Technical, Cambridge High and Latin, and two alternative programs (called the Pilot and Fundamental). The Pilot, Fundamental, and Rindge Technical and Vocational retained a small core of students, while the rest of school was randomly split into four houses: A, B, C, and D. The newly built high school at the time increased its capacity to more than 2,000 students in all four grades.
History
Precursors
In 1642, the year Harvard College's first class of nine young men was graduated, the General Court made it the duty of Cambridge to require that parents and masters properly educate their children or be fined if they neglected to do so. In 1648, Cambridge set up a public grammar school, Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole," making Cambridge the fifth town (after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Corlett's schoolhouse came into the possession of Old Cambridge in 1660, and over the next century was succeeded by several new buildings. The public school that evolved from Cortlett's original was a "grammar school" in a double sense: an English grammar school for Old Cambridge and a Latin grammar school (teaching the rudiments of Latin and Greek) for all Cambridge. The school generally aimed to prepare students for admission to college:
"And by the side of the colledge a faire GRAMMAR Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for ACADEMICALL LEARNING, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the colledge of this Schoole. Master CORLETT is the Mr., who hath very well approved himselfe for his abilities, dexterity and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him."
Education during this period was open only to boys, though by 1832, public schools in Cambridge were open to girls as well.
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