The Taft School
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The Taft School is a private
, coeducational prep school
located in Watertown, Connecticut
, USA. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft
in 1890. It has 570 students, about 470 of whom live on the 220 acre (0.8903092 km²) campus. Taft is a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization. Horace Taft was the brother of William Howard Taft
, the 27th President of the United States
and the 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
.
, 16 tennis court
s (four indoor), 8 squash courts, 2 fieldhouses, 2 ice hockey
rinks, (1 Olympic sized and 1 NHL sized), and more than 10 fields all situated around Potters Pond.
Girls' Dormitory (USGD/The Rock).
(pithily summarized by the "collared shirt, no sweatshirts, no denim" dictum) is required in class for all students. Semi-formal attire is required for sit down dinners. There are currently 480 boarders and 108 day students. More than $6.5 million in financial aid supports 37% of the student body. All scholarships are based on need only; there are no merit-based awards.
courses are offered in 29 subjects, including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish Literature, Spanish Language, French Literature, French Language, Latin, European History, American History, American Government, AB and BC Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and Environmental Science, Studio Art, Music Theory, Art History, English Literature, Economics, and Computer Science. Nearly 90% of graduates take one or more AP exams with an average score of 4 out of a possible 5. The class of 2010 had mean SAT Reasoning Test scores of 628 (Critical Reading), 640 (Math), and 636 (Writing).
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
, coeducational prep school
University-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
located in Watertown, Connecticut
Watertown, Connecticut
Watertown is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 21,661 at the 2000 census. The zip code for Watertown is 06795. It is a suburb of Waterbury. It borders the towns of Woodbury, Middlebury, Litchfield, Plymouth, Bethlehem, and Thomaston.-Founding History:More...
, USA. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft
Horace Dutton Taft
Horace Dutton Taft was an American educator, and the founder of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, United States.He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the younger brother of William Howard Taft of the powerful Taft family...
in 1890. It has 570 students, about 470 of whom live on the 220 acre (0.8903092 km²) campus. Taft is a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization. Horace Taft was the brother of William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
, the 27th President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
and the 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the United States
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...
.
Campus and facilities
The campus is located in Watertown, Connecticut, and is approximately 220 acre (0.8903092 km²) in size. It includes two theaters, an 18-hole golf courseGolf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, 16 tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
s (four indoor), 8 squash courts, 2 fieldhouses, 2 ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
rinks, (1 Olympic sized and 1 NHL sized), and more than 10 fields all situated around Potters Pond.
Dorms
There are eight dorms on the Taft Campus. There are 3 boys' dorms including Charles Phelps Taft (CPT), Horace Dutton Taft (HDT), and ISP. There are 5 girls' dorms including Mac, Centennial, Congdon, Vogelstein (Vogue), and Upper SchoolUpper school
Upper Schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England.-State Maintained Schools:...
Girls' Dormitory (USGD/The Rock).
Students
In 2010, Taft had 588 students from 33 states and 29 countries. The school hosts students in 9th through 12th grades as well as post-graduates (PGs). Students are referred to by their grade's common name such as Lower Mids, Mids, Upper Mids, and Seniors. A dress codeSocial aspects of clothing
Dress codes are written and, more often, unwritten rules with regards to clothing. Clothing like other aspects of human physical appearance has a social significance, with different rules and expectations being valid depending on circumstance and occasion...
(pithily summarized by the "collared shirt, no sweatshirts, no denim" dictum) is required in class for all students. Semi-formal attire is required for sit down dinners. There are currently 480 boarders and 108 day students. More than $6.5 million in financial aid supports 37% of the student body. All scholarships are based on need only; there are no merit-based awards.
Faculty
The faculty at the Taft School includes 71 men and 55 women, a total of 124 teachers. Consequently, there is a 5:1 student to teacher ratio. Three-quarters of the faculty hold advanced degrees (master's or doctorates). The majority of the Taft faculty live on campus, in both private houses scattered across the grounds, or in apartments in the dorms. Each floor of each dorm has at least one faculty apartment.Academics
There are more than 200 academic courses offered at the Taft School. The average class consists of 12 students. Advanced Placement ProgramAdvanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
courses are offered in 29 subjects, including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish Literature, Spanish Language, French Literature, French Language, Latin, European History, American History, American Government, AB and BC Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and Environmental Science, Studio Art, Music Theory, Art History, English Literature, Economics, and Computer Science. Nearly 90% of graduates take one or more AP exams with an average score of 4 out of a possible 5. The class of 2010 had mean SAT Reasoning Test scores of 628 (Critical Reading), 640 (Math), and 636 (Writing).
Academics
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Arts and entertainment
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Business
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Company
Government officials
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr. '46, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
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and ArgentinaUnited States Ambassador to ArgentinaThe United States Ambassador to Argentina is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Argentina.... - William S. MailliardWilliam S. MailliardWilliam S. Mailliard was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California. He was born in Belvedere, California; attended elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 1933–1935...
'35, U.S. Congressman, California - Manuel RochaManuel Rocha-Background:Rocha graduated from Taft School in 1969 and graduated from Yale University cum laude in 1973. He received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1976 and a Master of Arts in international relations from Georgetown University in 1978.Rocha began his...
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2000-02 - Earl T. SmithEarl T. SmithEarl Edward Tailer Smith was a United States foreign diplomat, ambassador to Cuba , mayor of Palm Beach , and husband of model Florence Pritchett Smith .-Biography:...
'22, United States Ambassador to Cuba (1958–59) - Michael P. W. Stone '42, U.S. Secretary of the Army
- Robert TaftRobert TaftRobert Alphonso Taft , of the Taft political family of Cincinnati, was a Republican United States Senator and a prominent conservative statesman...
1906, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1939-53, majority leader - Robert Taft, Jr.Robert Taft, Jr.Robert Taft Jr. was a member of the Taft political family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. He also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976....
'35, Republican Congressman 1963-65, 1967–71, Senator 1971-76 - Bob TaftBob TaftRobert Alphonso "Bob" Taft II is an Ohio Republican Party politician. He was elected to two terms of office as the 67th Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio between 1999-2007. After leaving office, Taft started working for the University of Dayton beginning August 15, 2007.-Personal background:Taft...
'59, Governor of Ohio - William Howard Taft IIIWilliam Howard Taft IIIWilliam Howard Taft III was the grandson of William Howard Taft and served as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland from 1953 to 1957. His task was made easier by the fact that John A. Costello, Taoiseach 1954-57 was a personal friend; Taft described Costello as "pleasant and unassuming"...
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'34, U.S. Congressman, Wyoming
Legal and judiciary
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who heard New York Times v. Gonzales concerning the Judith MillerJudith Miller (journalist)Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, formerly of the New York Times Washington bureau. Her coverage of Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction program both before and after the 2003 invasion generated much controversy...
controversy.
Sports
- Darren BraggDarren BraggDarren William Bragg is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball. He played for the Seattle Mariners , Boston Red Sox , St...
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'95, professional football player - Allison MleczkoAllison MleczkoAllison Mleczko , is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.Mleczko is a graduate of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut....
'93, gold medalist in first women's Olympic ice hockey gameIce hockey at the 1998 Winter OlympicsIce hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics was played at The Big Hat and Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan.-Men's tournament:The 1998 Olympic men's ice hockey tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to...
at Nagano; silver medalist in 2002. - Max PaciorettyMax PaciorettyMax Pacioretty is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . He was called up from the American Hockey League for the second time on December 12, 2010...
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'79, Hall of Fame professional tennis player - James Stillman RockefellerJames Stillman RockefellerJames Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family.-Personal life:A paternal grandson of William Rockefeller, his maternal grandfather James Stillman and uncle James Alexander Stillman served as president of the National City Bank of New York, now Citibank...
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'01, professional hockey player - Tammy Lee ShewchukTammy Lee ShewchukTammy Lee "Barbie" Shewchuk is a women's ice hockey player. Shewchuk was a member of the 2000 and 2001 gold medal teams at the Women’s World Hockey Championships. She also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and contributed with two points as Canada captured the Gold Medal...
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'02, professional ice hockey player
Writing, journalism, and publishing
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'26 Journalist and "the American Schindler" - Philip K. Howard '66, founder of Common Good, author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America
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’59, Peabody AwardPeabody AwardThe George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...
-winning journalist and producer - Josh QuittnerJosh QuittnerJosh Quittner is an American journalist.Born in Manhattan, Quittner grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Grinnell College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is married to Michelle Slatalla and has three daughters...
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'40, American soldier, journalist, and author