RE LOG - Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 Ransom Everglades LOG 25 Ransom Everglades School is at home in Coconut Grove. The school takes pride in its responsibilities as a neighbor, community resource, and pillar of education and environmental stewardship. The following statement is a description of Ransom Everglades School’s activities and partnerships demonstrating the public benefits it provides and will continue to provide to the community. The school is a coeducational, private educational institution for students in grades 6-12 that operates on two campuses. Ransom Everglades students hail from nearly 40 elementary schools from throughout Miami-Dade County, including more than 20 public schools. The school, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Independent Schools and National Association of Independent Schools, awards $5.3 million in financial aid to 17.5 percent of its students annually, providing for approximately 190 financial aid grants. Public service has always been a part of Ransom Everglades’ mission. When Paul Ransom founded the school in 1903, he promised to produce graduates who would put more into the world than they took from it. Students and school leaders take that pledge to heart to this day. To ensure that service is meaningful and intrinsic to the educational experience, Ransom Everglades – unlike many other schools – does not require its students to count and record their service hours. Students learn that public service is not a box to be checked for credit, but a fundamental and rewarding part of living within a community. At Ransom Everglades, every sports team voluntarily conducts local service projects. More than 20 extra-curricular clubs perform community service. Students spend after-school hours and weekends volunteering as tutors, reading to local school children, building homes, performing at hospitals and engaging in many other worthy efforts throughout Miami. The school itself donates facilities and resources to a host of non-profits, including Breakthrough Miami and the Children’s Bereavement Center. It picked up the tab for significant renovations on an unusable track oval at Coral Gables High, and revamped the ball fields at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade. Ransom Everglades students utilize those facilities, and the school pays to maintain both.