Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California)

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a private, K-12, independent, college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, United States. The school is a former member of the G20 Schools Group.

Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Address
1714 21st Street

Santa Monica
,
California

United States
Coordinates34°01′28″N 118°28′26″W
Information
Opened1971
FounderPaul Cummins, Rhoda Makoff
Head of schoolBob Riddle
GradesK–12
Number of students1,139
School color(s)Red, White, and Blue
MascotRoadrunner
PublicationKollektiv (academic journal), Dark as Day (literary arts journal)
NewspaperCrossfire
YearbookCrossroads Yearbook
Websitehttp://www.xrds.org/

History

The school was founded in 1971 as a secular institution affiliated with St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.[1] Although the founders, and many of the school's original students, came from the former St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Day School in Santa Monica, Crossroads School has always been a secular institution. Crossroads started with three rooms in a Baptist church offering grades seven and eight, and an initial enrollment of just over 30 students.[1] The name Crossroads was suggested by Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken", in which Frost writes:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.[2]

As St. Augustine's grew to junior and senior high school, the founders started Crossroads with a separate board of directors and separate campus, which eventually merged in the 1980s under the name Crossroads.

In the media

The 2004 book Hollywood Interrupted, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner (ISBN 0-471-45051-0), dedicated a large section to Crossroads; it depicted the school (and the celebrities who send their children there) in a negative light, focusing mainly on a handful of high-profile parents and "drug problems" stemming from the 1980s.[1] The school was also featured in a May 2005 issue of Vanity Fair; like Breitbart's book, it also focused on the school's celebrity clientele.[1]

Notable alumni

References
  1. DiGiacomo, Frank (March 1, 2005). "School for Cool". Vanity Fair.
  2. Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Andrade, J. A. (September 23, 2008). "With Hollywood looking on, Davis and Croshere honored". ESPN.com. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  4. Boucher, Geoff (May 24, 2009). "Keeping Critics at Bay". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  5. Schneier, Matthew (May 6, 2016). "The Man Who Would Be Han Solo". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2020. Hobie Doyle would seem an odd choice for Mr. Ehrenreich, a kid from Los Angeles (he attended the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, in Santa Monica, Calif., where Jonah Hill and Jack Black were also students).
  6. Pressler, Jessica (February 8, 2019). "31 Going on 13". Vulture. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  7. Weigle, Lauren (February 22, 2015). "Tanya Haden - Jack Black's Wife". Heavy. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  8. Strachan, Maxwell (October 24, 2018). "Jonah Hill's Love Letter To In-Between Los Angeles". HuffPost. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  9. Ganguli, Tania (May 29, 2019). "LeBron James' sons leaving Crossroads for Sierra Canyon". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  10. Mandalit del Barco (March 24, 2017). "'Girls' Producer Jenni Konner: 'I Was Definitely Hired To Be The Grown-Up'". NPR. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  11. Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (January 2, 2013). "Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  12. Sutherland, Sam (March 26, 2010). "Days of Whine and Poses". Exclaim!.
  13. Van Grove, Jennifer (November 26, 2013). "Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: Saying no to $3B, and feeling lucky". CNET.
  14. Guthrie, Marisa (June 28, 2011). "Jessica Yellin Named CNN Chief White House Correspondent". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
  15. Grant, Stacey (February 10, 2020). "Who Is Milo Manheim? - Fun Facts About the 'Zombies 2' Star". Seventeen. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
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