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Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a K-12 independent, college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, United States. The school is a member ofthe G20 Schools Group.
History
The school was founded in 1971 as a secular institution affiliated with St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in SantaMonica. 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 initialenrollment of just over 30 students. The name Crossroads was suggested by Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken,” in which Frost writes:
Two roads diverged in ayellow wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
As St. Augustine's grew to junior and senior high school, thefounders started Crossroads with a separate board of directors and separate campus, which eventually merged in the 1980s under the name Crossroads.
In the mediaThe 2004 book Hollywood Interrupted, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner (ISBN 0-471-45051-0), dedicated a large section to Crossroads; it depicted the school (andthe celebrities who send their children there) in a negative light. The article focused mainly on a handful of high-profile parents and "drug problems" stemmingfrom 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.
History
The school was founded in 1971 as a secular institution affiliated with St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in SantaMonica. 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 initialenrollment of just over 30 students. The name Crossroads was suggested by Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken,” in which Frost writes:
Two roads diverged in ayellow wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
As St. Augustine's grew to junior and senior high school, thefounders started Crossroads with a separate board of directors and separate campus, which eventually merged in the 1980s under the name Crossroads.
In the mediaThe 2004 book Hollywood Interrupted, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner (ISBN 0-471-45051-0), dedicated a large section to Crossroads; it depicted the school (andthe celebrities who send their children there) in a negative light. The article focused mainly on a handful of high-profile parents and "drug problems" stemmingfrom 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.
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