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Riverdale Country School is a co-educational, independent, college-preparatory day school in New York City. It is located on two campuses covering more than 27 acres (110,000 m2) in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York.
Founded in 1907 by Frank Hackett, who has a namesake hall in the school, Riverdale Country School is one of the oldest country day schools in the United States.
The present-day institution traces its origins to the Riverdale School for Boys, which was established in 1907 by Hackett. In 1920, the Neighborhood Elementary School was founded, followed in 1933, by the Riverdale Girls School. In 1972, the three schools combined to form a single school.[1]
The buildings on the Hill Campus include Hackett Hall, Mow Hall, Lindenbaum Center for the Arts, the Pernille Ironside Building (aka the 9-10 Building), the Day Care, Vinik Hall (the Admissions Building), the Weinstein Science Building, and the Science Annex.
The buildings on the River Campus are the K-3 building (the New building – gymnasium and classrooms from kindergarten to third grade), the senior building (includes chorus classroom, pullout reading, Spanish classroom, and honors math classrooms), Perkins Building (includes a theater, 4-5th grade classrooms), the Admissions/Junior building (includes various music classes, admissions office, nurse's office, Riverclub office, and lunchroom). Both campuses have a gymnasium and tennis courts. The River Campus also has a pre-Kindergarten room and a playground (Jolli Run Playground). The Hill Campus has three playing fields (upper field, lower field, and football field), as well as a pool, wrestling room, fencing room, workout room, two drama rooms, and three floors of rooms devoted to the arts.
Riverdale has two campus areas: the River Campus (grades Pre-K–5 known as the Lower School), and the Hill Campus (grades 6–8 known as the Middle School, and 9–12 known as the Upper School). The River Campus received its name because of its location beside the Hudson River; the Hill Campus, overlooking Van Cortlandt Park, was named for its location as well.
Riverdale currently has an enrollment of approximately 1125 students (River Campus, 375; Hill Campus, 750). Dominic Randolph was appointed the sixth Head of School in 2007.
Riverdale is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools.[2]
Riverdale has an arts program, offering courses in music theory and composition, acting technique, studio art, and film analysis. Upper School students produce one musical and one play each year in the Jeslo Harris theatre. Riverdale students may participate in the jazz and concert bands, orchestra, chamber music ensembles, chorus, and the a cappella singing group. Riverdale also has clubs and activities.
The Riverdale Review is Riverdale's student-run paper.[3] Impressions, has published the visual art and creative writing of students in the Upper School for almost 30 years.[4] Crossroads is Riverdale’s Middle School Literary and Art Magazine.[5] The Falcon Times is the newsletter of the Middle School.[6]
In the spring of 2013 crew was introduced as a varsity sport for boys and girls. In the 2013-14 school year, wrestling was officially cut from the list of sports.
Nathan M. Pusey taught at Riverdale Country School.
Riverdale is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League and the New York State Association of Independent Schools.[11]
The "Hill Schools": Riverdale Country School, The Fieldston School, and Horace Mann School together are known as the "Hill Schools," as all three are located within two miles (3 km) of each other in the neighborhood of Riverdale on a hilly area above Van Cortlandt Park.
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