The Meadows School

The Meadows School is a non-profit, coeducational, nonsectarian, independent college preparatory day school located in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada. The campus serves just under 900 students in grades pre-k through 12 spread among four divisions – Beginning School (Pre-K), Lower School (Grades K-5), Middle School (Grades 6-8), and Upper School (Grades 9-12).

The Meadows School
Location
8601 Scholar Lane Las Vegas , Nevada 89128 USA
Information
Type	Private
Motto	"In Pursuit of Excellence"
Established	1984
Head of School	Jeremy Gregersen
Grades	PreK-12
Enrollment	864 (as of 2019-20)
Student to teacher ratio	11:1
Campus	Summerlin, 40 acres
Color(s)	Blue and Silver
Mascot	Silver the Mustang
Accreditation	NWAIS, NWAC
Annual tuition	$10,900 - $17,920 (PreK) $21,760 (Grades K-5) $23,940 (Grades 6-8) $28,360 (Grades 9-12)[1]
Website	www.themeadowsschool.org

For the 2019-20 school year, The Meadows has an estimated enrollment of 864 students and a teaching staff of 97 faculty, with an average student to faculty ratio of 11:1. Class sizes are limited to 18 students in the Beginning and Upper Schools and 20 students in the Lower and Middle Schools.[2]

The Upper School offers students 21 AP courses and in 2019 had 31 National AP Scholars or AP Scholars with Distinction.[3] In 2016, The Washington Post named The Meadows School the #2 most challenging high school in Nevada, and the #97 most challenging private high school in the country.[4] Since its first Upper School Commencement in 1991, 100 percent of graduates from The Meadows School have been accepted into four-year colleges or universities.[5][6]

History

Meadows Lane temporary campus

At the time that The Meadows School opened in 1984,[7] a permanent campus site had not yet been found. In lieu of a permanent location, Goodman raised $300,000 and purchased 5,000 square feet of temporary modular buildings that were set up on a parking lot behind a car dealership. The lot was loaned to the School by Board Member Fletcher Jones, Jr. and was located, coincidentally, on Meadows Lane in northern Las Vegas. These buildings served as the School’s classrooms until the permanent campus was opened four years later.[8]

Scholar Lane permanent campus

In 1985, Carolyn Goodman was introduced to William Lummis, the nephew of Howard Hughes and the Chairman of the Board for the Summa Corporation (rebranded as the Howard Hughes Corporation in 1994). The Summa Corporation was in the early stages of developing the northwest area of Las Vegas, later known as Summerlin. Recognizing the correlation between strong communities and good schools, the Summa Corproation donated 40 acres of undeveloped land to the School for a permanent campus.[9]

Construction on the new campus began in the fall of 1987. The permanent campus was situated on Scholar Lane, a street name chosen by the students for their new school. While the construction of the Summerlin campus was underway, the Summa Corporation also provided additional funding to the School to add new modular buildings to the temporary campus to accommodate its growing student enrollment, which by 1987 had increased to 200 students in grades K-8.[10]

One year later, at the beginning of the 1988 school year, Lower School students moved into The LeOre Cobbley Lower School building on the new campus. Middle and Upper School students followed suit in December of that year and moved into classrooms created from the previous modular buildings on Meadows Lane, which had been relocated to the permanent campus.

Athletics

Interscholastic sports

The Meadows School is a member of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) Southern conference and participates in athletics at the Division III level (with the exception of its Tennis and Bowling Teams, which compete in Division I-A). It offers students a variety of interscholastic sports to choose from, including football, soccer, volleyball, cheer, tennis, and cross country in the fall season; basketball, cheer, wrestling, and bowling in the winter season; and baseball, softball, track & field, and golf in the spring season.[11] The school has also offered swimming and dance in the past but has not fielded teams in recent years due to lack of interest.

The Meadows School also offers many of the same interscholastic sports at the Middle School level[12] as a member of the Red Rock Athletic Conference.

References

1. "2020-2021 Tuition and Fees". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
3. "The Meadows School Class of 2019 Facts". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
4. "America's Most Challenging High Schools".
5. "The History of The Meadows School". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
6. "The Meadows School Offers New Scholarship for Ninth Grade Students". Northwest Association of Independent Schools. 2015-01-08. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
7. Emily Richmond (2009-05-17). "Meadows School hits milestone". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
8. "History of The Meadows". Retrieved 13 August 2014.
9. Hagen, Phil (2008). The Meadows School: Celebrating 25 Years. Las Vegas, NV: Creel Printing. pp. 55–61.
10. "History of The Meadows". Retrieved 13 August 2014.
11. "Athletics". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
12. "Athletics". Retrieved 10 March 2020.