Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville Collegiate School (commonly known as Collegiate) is an independent co-educational day school located in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The junior kindergarten to 12th grade school enrolls 804 students at 2427 Glenmary Avenue.

Louisville Collegiate School
Louisville , Kentucky United States
Information
Type	Private
Established	1915
Founder	Virginia Perrin Speed
Headmaster	Dr. Macrae (appointed 2019)
Faculty	126
Grades	Junior kindergarten – grade 12
Gender	Co-educational
Enrollment	804
Campus	Suburban
Campus size	60 acres (240,000 m2)
Color(s)	Blue and gold
Mascot	Amazons and Titans
Nickname	Collegiate
Tuition	Junior kindergarten: $14,200 Kindergarten: $17,850 Grades 1–4: $24,100 Grade 5: $26,650 Grades 6–12: $27,500
Website	Louisville Collegiate School

History

Louisville Collegiate School opened on September 23, 1915, in a house at 512 West Ormsby Avenue. Virginia Perrin Speed (1879–1968) and husband William Shallcross Speed (1873–1955) were the principal founders of the school.

Collegiate expanded its premises in 1927 to its current location on Glenmary Avenue in the Highlands, just east of downtown Louisville, in what is now the Lower School. Although initially accepting boys in primary grades, it remained traditionally a girls' school until 1972, when the Lower School became co-educational.

In 1980, Collegiate's Board of Trustees implemented co-education in the Upper School. To accommodate increased enrollment, Willig Hall was built in 1983 to house the Upper School. The first co-educational class graduated in 1987.

In 2001, Collegiate launched a campaign to expand its Upper School. The building became a 62,500-square-foot (5,810 m²) structure housing 17 classrooms, seven study areas, three science labs, and two computer labs. Collegiate launched a junior kindergarten in 2008.

Academics

Louisville Collegiate School is divided into a Lower School (junior kindergarten–grade 4), a Middle School (grades 5–8), and an Upper School (grades 9–12). Each division has its own administrative head and core faculty, and many faculty members teach in multiple divisions. Collegiate is the only member of the Global Online Academy (GOA) in the state of Kentucky.

Collegiate's fine arts curriculum for Lower, Middle, and Upper School students includes visual art (drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, 3D sculpture), vocal and instrumental music, drama, and visiting artists.

Athletics

Fall sports

Field hockey, soccer, golf, cross country

Winter sports

Basketball, indoor track, squash, swimming and diving

Spring sports

Crew, lacrosse, tennis, track and field

Notable alumni

• Sallie Bingham (1954), author and playwright
• Tori Murden McClure (1981), first woman to row solo across the Atlantic
• Jane Metcalfe (1979), co-founder of Wired Magazine
• Henry Berg-Brousseau (2016), transgender rights activist