The Meadows School, Las Vegas

at , Las Vegas , 89128 United States

1. High School

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The Meadows School is a non-profit, coeducational, nonsectarian, independent college preparatory day school located in the affluent Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada. The campus serves just under 900 students in grades pre-k through 12 spread among four divisions – Beginning School (Pre-K), Lower School (Grades K-5), Middle School (Grades 6-8), and Upper School (Grades 9-12).For the 2014-15 school year, The Meadows has an estimated enrollment of 881 students and a teaching staff of 86 faculty, giving a student to faculty ratio of 10:1. Class sizes are limited to 18 students in the Beginning and Upper Schools and 20 students in the Lower and Middle Schools.The Upper School offers students 24 AP courses and in 2014 had an AP exam pass rate of 100%. In 2016, The Washington Post named The Meadows School the #2 most challenging high school in Nevada, and the #97 most challenging private high school in the country. Since its first Upper School Commencement in 1991, 100 percent of graduates from The Meadows School have been accepted into four-year colleges or universities.HistoryOriginsThe Meadows School was first conceptualized by Carolyn Goodman in the early 1970s. She and her husband, attorney Oscar Goodman, had recently settled in Las Vegas and were looking to enroll their four children in schools with academic standards comparable to the top college preparatory schools on the East Coast. Through her search of area schools, Goodman was introduced to Dr. LeOre Cobbley, a longtime educator in the Clark County School District who championed a no-nonsense, traditional system of elementary education.

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The Meadows School, Las Vegas is Las Vegas based place and this enity listed in High School category. 89128.