Academics
Blake promotes a well rounded, liberal arts education encouraging involvement in academics, athletics, and the arts. The school serves approximately 1,400 students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade, with an average classroom size of 15-16 students, and average graduating class size of 130. The school's student-adult ratio is 9:1.
It takes 22 credits to graduate from The Blake School, with a minimum course load of five courses each semester. The Blake School also offers global citizenship programs.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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