Randolph School
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Randolph School is an American independent private Pre-K-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It started in a home on Randolph Avenue in downtown Huntsville with a handful of elementary classes. A few years later it moved to a much larger Template:Convert campus on Drake Avenue, where it is now located, gradually adding grade levels until having a graduating high school class in the early 1970s.
In 1998, the school purchased Template:Convert of land on Garth Road, less than Template:Convert from the Drake Avenue campus. The new high school opened for the 2009–2010 school year. For the fine arts, the new facilities include a new theater with stadium seating, a workshop for stagecraft, band and choral rooms, and new restroom facilities. In total, Randolph has two gymnasiums, four tennis courts, two practice fields and professionally maintained fields for football, baseball, softball and soccer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Athletics
Randolph School athletic teams have won 51 AHSAA state titles and finished as runners up 51 times.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Randolph athletes have also taken home 24 individuals state titles. Most varsity teams currently compete in the AHSAA 4A division.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Randolph boys have won the Cross Country State Championships in 1982, as well as 2005–2013, setting a new state record for most consecutive state championship wins in Alabama with 9. They were runners up in 2014 and 2018. The girls Cross Country team won in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1996, and 1998, and were runners-up in 2013, 2014 and 2015.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Notable alumni
Its alumni include many of the children of the German rocket scientists that moved to Huntsville with Wernher von Braun after World War II. Other notable alumni include:
- Alex Clay – Former professional soccer player for New York Red Bulls II
- Macon Phillips – White House Director of Digital Strategy in the Obama administration<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Susanna Phillips (graduated 1999) – Soprano opera singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Brian Reynolds (game designer) – Chief Game Designer for Zynga, co-founder of Firaxis and Big Huge Games<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Bryan Shelton – Florida Gators men's tennis head coach and six-time Wimbledon participant<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Jimmy Wales – Co-founder of Wikipedia<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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- Educational institutions established in 1959
- Education in Huntsville, Alabama
- Private elementary schools in Alabama
- Private middle schools in Alabama
- High schools in Huntsville, Alabama
- Schools in Madison County, Alabama
- Private high schools in Alabama
- Preparatory schools in Alabama
- 1959 establishments in Alabama