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Private, college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a private/independent, college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, United States. The school is a former member of the G20 Schools Group.
| Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences | |
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1714 21st Street , California United States | |
| Coordinates | 34°01′28″N 118°28′26″W |
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| Type | Private, college preparatory |
| Opened | 1971 |
| Founder | Paul Cummins, Rhoda Makoff |
| Head of school | Bob Riddle |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Number of students | 1,139 |
| Color(s) | Red, white, and blue |
| Athletics conference | CIF Southern Section Gold Coast League |
| Nickname | Roadrunners |
| Publication | Kollektiv (academic journal), Dark as Day (literary arts journal) |
| Newspaper | Crossfire |
| Yearbook | Crossroads Yearbook |
| Website | http://www.xrds.org/ |
The school was founded in 1971 as a secular institution affiliated with St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.[1] Although the founders, and many of the school's original students, came from the former St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Day School in Santa Monica, Crossroads School has always been a secular institution. Crossroads started with three rooms in a Baptist church offering grades seven and eight, and an initial enrollment of just over 30 students.[1] The name Crossroads was suggested by Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken", in which Frost writes:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.[2]
As St. Augustine's grew to junior and senior high school, the founders started Crossroads with a separate board of directors and separate campus, which eventually merged in the 1980s under the name Crossroads. Co-founder Paul Cummins became the first headmaster and served until 1995.[3]
The 2004 book Hollywood, Interrupted, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner, dedicated a large section to Crossroads; it depicted the school (and the celebrities who send their children there) in a negative light, focusing mainly on a handful of high-profile parents and "drug problems" stemming from the 1980s. The school was also featured in a May 2005 issue of Vanity Fair; like Breitbart's book, it also focused on the school's celebrity clientele.[1]
Elon Musk alleges that Crossroads teaches “full-on communism,” and blamed his daughter's transition, alleged communist ideology, and decision to cut him out of her life on Crossroads in his upcoming biography.[4]
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