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The Pembroke Hill School (commonly referred to as Pembroke Hill) is a private preparatory school in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is coeducational and nonsectarian. The school is on two campuses in Kansas City's Country Club District, near the Country Club Plaza. The Ward Parkway Campus is west of the Plaza, and the Wornall Campus is south, although both campuses pre-date the Plaza itself. Pembroke Hill enrolls about 1,200 students in preschool through 12th grade. The school accepts about 66 percent of applicants.[1] The school has a strong academic tradition; all of its graduates usually matriculate to four-year colleges, many in the Ivy League.[1]
[edit] History[edit] Establishment Vassie James Ward Hill, a prominent Kansas Citian and Vassar College graduate born in 1875, founded Pembroke Hill's predecessor schools: The Sunset Hill School for girls and The Pembroke-Country Day School for boys. She gained a considerable fortune upon the death of her first husband, Hugh Ward, a son of pioneer Seth E. Ward. She then married Albert Ross Hill, formerly president of the University of Missouri. Hill, who had three sons and a daughter, was concerned about their education. In those days, Kansas Citians of means commonly sent their children to boarding schools on the east coast. Hill believed her children should be able to have an equal education in Kansas City, leading her to research the workings of college preparatory schools, especially the progressive education of the Country Day School movement. In 1910, using funds from 12 prominent Kansas City businessmen, Hill founded the Country Day School for boys, which accepted day students and boarders. (Boarding at the school ceased in the 1950s.) Initial enrollment was 20 students, which grew to 52 within three years. The first country day school in the Midwestern United States, it sat on what is today Pembroke Hill's Ward Parkway Campus (at the intersection of State Line Road). Three years later, Hill joined Ruth Carr Patton and Frances Matteson Bowersock to found the Sunset Hill School, named after her favorite area on the Vassar College campus. The Sunset Hill School was located on what today is Pembroke Hill's Wornall Campus. At the time of its founding, the campus overlooked the Kansas City Country Club (today Loose Park). That campus includes a portion of the battlefield from the Battle of Westport. In 1925, some educators and students left the Country Day School to form the Pembroke School. Their endeavor failed amidst the Great Depression, and in the two schools re-merged in 1933 to form the Pembroke-Country Day School, keeping the Country Day School's original campus. It commonly was referred to as "Pem-Day." [edit] MergerFrom the start, Sunset Hill and Pembroke-Country Day worked cooperatively. Often, teachers taught at both schools. For generations, many Kansas City families would send their boys to Pem-Day and their girls to Sunset Hill. School activities, such as plays and dances, often were combined, and Sunset Hill girls were cheerleaders for Pem-Day's sports teams. In 1963, the two schools began coeducational classes in upper level math, science and languages. In the early 1980s, the two schools began merger discussions, and merged in 1984 to become the Pembroke Hill School. The class of 1985 elected to have separate graduation ceremonies. True coeducation began the next year. The former Sunset Hill campus became home to the Primary School and Lower School (preschool through sixth grade), and the former Pem-Day campus became home to the Middle School and Upper School (seventh grade through twelfth grade). [edit] Image and improvementsIn 1988, Pembroke Hill gained some local notoriety and scorn after Kansas City Magazine published an articled entitled "A High School on Easy Street", which criticized Pembroke Hill's students' "advantaged way of life."[2] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Pembroke Hill completed a $50 million capital improvement project, which renovated both campuses. The Ward Parkway campus gained a new middle school building, Boocock Middle School (which now serves grades six through eight), a new upper school building, Jordan Hall, a new arts center, and a new library, the William T. Kemper Library. [edit] AthleticsPembroke Hill has a long athletic tradition.[3] Its colors are blue and red, its teams are known as the Raiders, and its mascot resembles a Viking raider. Pembroke is a member of the Missouri State High School Activities Association.  [edit] Sports offeredFor girls, Pembroke Hill offers:
For boys, Pembroke Hill offers:
In the past, Pembroke also has participated in softball, rugby union,and ice hockey. Additionally, the lower school campus has facilities for racquetball, and the upper school campus is one of only three locations in Kansas City which contain squash facilities.[9] [edit] ChampionshipsFor three years in a row, 1997, 1998, and 1999, Pembroke Hill's boys basketball team won the Missouri division 2A state title. In 2000, however, the Missouri State High School Activities Association stripped Pembroke of the titles and placed the school on probation after the Kansas City Star revealed, in a nationally-publicized scandal, that promoter and AAU coach Myron Piggie had made cash payments to two of the school's star players, Kareem Rush and his brother JaRon Rush, to play on his "amateur" basketball team.[10][11][12][13][14] Piggie admitted to paying JaRon Rush $17,000 and Kareem Rush $2,300, after which the brothers "submitted false and fraudulent Student Athlete Statements to the universities where they were to play intercollegiate basketball", certifying that they had not been paid to play basketball.[14] As a result, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Missouri found themselves subject to NCAA penalties for awarding athletic scholarships to non-amateurs.[14] On Piggie's appeal in 2002 from his prison sentence and restitution for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found that Pembroke Hill had "sustained a loss of $10,733.89 in investigative costs and forfeiture of property as a result of" Piggie's conspiracy.[14] In 2006 and 2007, the girls' basketball team won the Missouri Class 2 state title. The school is a perennial contender for or winner of Class 2 state championships in boys golf, boys tennis, boys soccer, girls golf, boys lacrosse and girls tennis.[3] The Raider Lacrosse team won the 2009 Division II State Championship. They beat Eureka High School 6-5 after trailing 5-2 in the 4th Quarter. [1] [edit] RivalriesPembroke Hill has cross-state athletic rivalries with MICDS and John Burroughs School, both in Ladue, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. [edit] Additional information[edit] Tuition and financial aidTuition and fees for the 2009-10 schoolyear range from $15,705 for students up to second grade to $18,335 for high schoolers.[15] About 17 percent of students receive financial aid, totaling more than $1.7 million per year.[16] In May 2007, the Malone Family Foundation, established by John C. Malone of Denver, Colorado, gave a $2 million grant to Pembroke's endowment, the largest single endowment gift in the school's history.[17] The gift will be used to create the Malone Scholars Program to give need-based financial aid to highly qualified students who otherwise would qualify for at least 50 percent in financial aid, including not only low-income families but also middle-income families as well.[17] [edit] Assets and contributionsThe school has assets of over $100 million and an endowment of more than $22 million.[18] It receives substantial contributions not only from a large percentage of its alumni base, but also from Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Southern Industries, Sprint, H&R Block, and other leading regional corporations, many of whose executives attended Pembroke Hill.[18] [edit] AccreditationPembroke Hill is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children.[19] The school is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).[19] [edit] Notable alumni
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[edit] External linksCoordinates: 39°02′06″N 94°36′22″W / 39.034925°N 94.606167°W
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