THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL INC

About This Cause

Founded in 1645, The Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. We are a small independent boys’ school by tradition and by conviction. The Reverend John Eliot, known in his own time and since as the “Apostle to the Indians” for his life-long work with the native Algonquians, founded the School “to fit [students] for public service in Church and Commonwealth.” Today Roxbury Latin would no doubt look and feel quite strange to the ten boys enrolled in John Eliot’s sparely furnished one-room, one-master school, but it remains remarkably true to the original mission set forth by its Founder-to prepare students intellectually, morally, and spiritually for service in the world “in succeeding ages.”