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History
| In 1953, John and Anne Holden, teachers at the Putney School in Vermont, bought a green International Harvester truck. They searched the American West in that truck for an ideal place to start an independent, coed boarding school, in the model of Putney, "for college-bound boys and girls who are sound of body and mind, and full of a spirit of adventure." After surveying numerous locales, the Holdens came upon the Western Colorado town of Carbondale, a rugged ranching town in the shadow of 13,000-foot Mt. Sopris. In Carbondale, they knew they had found the place for Colorado Rocky Mountain School, a new school that would be “an antidote to modern, easy living.” Now in its 56th year, CRMS boasts a student body of 150, with an energy-efficient $3.2 million classroom building, a half-acre solar array, and programs in state-of-the-art disciplines such as sustainability and environmental stewardship. The Roaring Fork Valley, in which it sits (just 30 miles from Aspen), has evolved as well from a predominantly ranching community into a sophisticated, rapidly growing locale with upscale amenities; CRMS has gone from being a boarding-only school to offering a premier, competitive day-student option. But amid change within and beyond the Roaring Fork Valley, CRMS holds firm to the educational values of the Holdens. We still have the green truck. |
Overview
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| Program Emphasis |
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| All Grades | 9-12 | ||
| Boarding Grades | 9-12 | ||
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| Religious Affiliation | Nondenominational | ||
| Student Body | Coed | ||
| Dress Code | Casual | ||
| School Setting | Small Town | ||
| Campus Size (Acres) | 350 | ||
| Head of School | Jeff Leahy | ||
| Endowment | $13 million |
Admission
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| Web Address | http://www.crms.org | ||
| Director of Admission | Molly Dorais | ||
| Application Required | Yes | ||
| Application Fee Amount | 50, 150 international | ||
| Application Deadline(s) | February 15 (for first round) | ||
| Financial Aid Deadline(s) | February 15 | ||
| Financial Aid Awarded | $1.5M | ||
| % of Students Receiving Financial Aid | 46% | ||
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| Day Student Tuition | $28,000.00 | ||
| Boarding Student Tuition | $45,500.00 | ||
| International Student Tuition | $45,500.00 |
Student Enrollment
| Total Enrollment | 163 | ||
| Boys | 99 | ||
| Girls | 64 | ||
| % Boys/Girls | 64/36 | ||
| Boarding Students | 105 | ||
| Day Students | 58 | ||
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| Majority of students come from | Mountain Region | ||
| % of Students of Color | 9 | ||
| % of International Students | 13 |
Academics
| Full Time Faculty | 38 | ||
| % of Faculty with Advanced Degrees | 53 | ||
| % of Faculty with Doctorate | 5% | ||
| % of Faculty with Masters | 53 | ||
| Student/Faculty ratio | 4:1 | ||
| Average Class Size | 13 | ||
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| A Sampling of Courses Offered |
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College Placement Office
| Average SAT I Scores (Math) | 582 |
| Average SAT I Scores (Verbal) | 576 |
| Average SAT I Scores (Writing) | 543 |
| Dedicated College Placement Office | Yes |
| Recent College Matriculations | Allegheny College College of the Atlantic Babson College Bard College Bates College Bennington College Bentley College Berklee College of Music Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University University of British Columbia California College of the Arts University of California at Los Angeles University of California at Santa Barbara Case Western Reserve University Chapman University University of Chicago Clark College Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado College Connecticut College Dartmouth College Denison University University of Denver Dickinson College Drexel University Duke University Earlham College Emerson College Franklin and Marshall College The George Washington University Goucher College Gettysburg College Hampshire College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hobart and William Smith Colleges Juniata College Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Macalester College Maryland Institute College of Art University of Michigan Middlebury College Mount Holyoke College Northeastern University University of Notre Dame University of Oregon Parsons School of Design University of Pennsylvania Pepperdine University Pitzer College Pomona College Pratt Institute University of Puget Sound Reed College Rhode Island School of Design University of Rochester San Francisco Art Institute Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of Visual Arts Seattle University Skidmore College Smith College St. John’s College St. Lawrence University Syracuse University The University of Austin, Texas Tulane University Union College Vassar College University of Vermont Villanova University Wake Forest University Warren Wilson College University of Washington Wesleyan University Western Washington University Whitman College Willamette University Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| % of Graduates Who Attend College | 100 |
Athletics & Extra-Curricular Activities
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Notes
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