Cate School is a highly selective, coeducational
university-preparatory school
A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where t ...
for boarding and day students in grades 9-12 located in
Carpinteria
Carpinteria (; es, Carpintería, meaning "Carpentry") is a small seaside city in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California. Located on the Central Coast of California, it had a population of 13,264 at the 2020 census. Carpinteria is a po ...
,
California
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, eleven miles from
Santa Barbara. The school has a current enrollment of 270 students from 31 different states and 18 foreign countries.
According to
Niche
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, Cate School is ranked as the 13th best boarding school in the United States and the best in California.
History
Beginnings
Cate School was founded in 1910 by Curtis Wolsey Cate, a 25-year-old graduate of
Roxbury Latin School
The Roxbury Latin School is a private boys' day school that was founded in 1645 in the town of Roxbury (now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts) by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England. It bills ...
and
Harvard University
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. Originally established in 1910 as the Miramar School, then changed a year later in 1911 to the Santa Barbara School (or SBS),
the school opened as a prep school for boys in grades 7 to 12, with its first academic year enrolling 12 students in total. In its early years, the school did not include amenities such as heat, hot water, or electricity, with Mr. Cate continuing to develop the 150 acres of natural landscape he had originally purchased. Despite these initial challenges, SBS celebrated its first graduate, Dohrmann Pischel, in 1914.
Campus Development
The school's central campus, referred to by alumni as "the Mesa," has moved four times since its inception. As the Miramar School, the campus was located in
Santa Barbara's Mission Canyon in a leased private residence known as the Gane House. The school's first academic building, the Gane House, was destroyed in the
Jesusita Fire
The Jesusita Fire was a wildfire that started on May 5, 2009 in the hills of Santa Barbara, California in the western United States. By the time the fire was contained on May 18 it had burned , destroyed 80 homes and damaged 15 more before being ...
in 2009.
Mr. Cate moved the school to the Stewart Walcott Ranch in the Carpinteria Valley the next year under its new name, the extra space of which allowed him to pursue a program he had admired in his year of teaching English at the nearby
Thacher School
The Thacher School is an elite private co-educational boarding school in Ojai, California. Founded in 1889 as a boys' school, it is now the oldest co-educational boarding school in California. Girls were first admitted in 1977. The first co-ed g ...
. Each one of Cate's boys was given a horse to care for, and much of the school's early campus and activities were dependent on horseback riding. In 1914, Walcott offered to sell Mr. Cate his 150-acre "mesa property", a former ostrich farm, which was accepted.
The school relocated immediately to the southwest mesa slopes, and then again in 1929 to its current location atop a hill within the property near the
Santa Ynez Mountains
The Santa Ynez Mountains are a portion of the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America. It is the westernmost range in the Transverse Ranges.
The range is a large fault block of Cenozoic age create ...
. Architect
Reginald Davis Johnson
Reginald Davis Johnson (1882 - 1952) was an American architect. His practice, based in Pasadena, California, focused on the Los Angeles area and southern California in general, with a mixture of residential and commercial work. Johnson's later w ...
, son of the school's first president of the board of trustees, Episcopal bishop
Joseph Horsfall Johnson, designed the first permanent campus buildings on the Cate Mesa between 1928 and 1929. Campus buildings have continued to be designed in keeping with Johnson's original Monterey Colonial style to the present day.
Cate-Thacher Rivalry
![Thacher vs Cate Gymkhana Feb 1936](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Thacher_vs_Cate_Gymkhana_Feb_1936.jpg)
Cate's total enrollment had increased to 40 in 1919,
and the school finally had enough boys to field athletic teams to compete with other private schools in the area. The first and most obvious of these was the Thacher School, which would become the traditional arch-
rivalry
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of both schools. Cate and Thacher actually competed in
baseball
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in Cate's first academic year despite the former's meager enrollment, and Cate consequently lost the game 60-4. Cate recorded its first win in baseball over Thacher in 1921 thanks to the surge of enrollment following
World War I
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.
Perhaps the most important competitive event between the two schools, however, was
gymkhana
Gymkhana () ( ur, جِمخانہ, sd, جمخانه, hi, जिमख़ाना, as, জিমখানা, bn, জিমখানা) is a British Raj term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to den ...
. Gymkhana, an
equestrian
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Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
event, involved a multitude of events such as picking up an orange or a sack on a turn at a dead run, tilting at rings, sprints, and relays. In contrast to their shortcomings on the baseball field, Cate posted an all-time winning record of 15-9 over Thacher in the 24 gymkhana competitions held.
The geographic locations of Cate and Thacher, their eventual status as the two premier boarding schools of the west, and the competitiveness of their early baseball and equestrian competitions likely contributed to the rivalry as it stands today over 100 years later.
Adversity
World War II
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proved a difficult time for the school. With declining enrollment and economic hardship from a not yet recovered
Great Depression
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, Mr. Cate was forced to cut costs in the school in any way he could. The school's official colors changed from purple and silver to blue and white due to dye shortages. Much more drastically, the school's horse program, a foundational aspect of Cate's distinctive experience, ended in 1942.
Of the program, Mr. Cate wrote, "The horse was as much a part of our lives as the book. Afternoons, mounted for a canter before baseball or for practice on the gymkhana field; Saturdays and Sunday, off for long rides or camping…learning from nature and the care of an animal larger than one's self, lessons not taught in the classrooms." In order to replace the hard work and responsibility the horse program was meant to provide, Mr. Cate initiated the "Work Program", which required each boy to contribute six hours of labor to the school's community each week, which alumnus
Barnaby Conrad '40
Barnaby Conrad, Jr. (March 27, 1922 – February 12, 2013) was an American artist, author, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter and boxer.
Born in San Francisco, California to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year ...
stated could be "everything from road building and bricklaying to plumbing, gardening and the raising of farm animals."
Daily chores remain a responsibility for all Cate students, with only seniors being exempt.
Legacy of "The King"
Despite the hardships and alterations to his original vision, the Santa Barbara School was renamed the Cate School to honor the headmaster upon his retirement in 1950.
As
headmaster
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, Curtis Wolsey Cate was popularly referred to as "The King" by his students. Deeply involved in the school's daily life, he read to his boys every night after dinner and subsequently shook hands with each.
The tradition has since manifested itself in the Sunset Ceremony that marks the beginning of each academic year, in which the old school bell is rung and the school's current headmaster reads a passage from Cate's book ''School Days in California'' to the student body. After, each member of the senior class shakes the headmaster's hand, followed by the rest of the faculty and underclassmen in procession as the sun sets. In May, after graduation, faculty bid farewell to the senior class in the same location once they have received
diploma
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s. Of Cate, Stanley Woodworth, a distinguished former faculty member who served during his tenure, wrote: "Yes, he was imperious and regal - but that's what kings are supposed to be. You should not infer from this that he was not revered, respected and loved by the boys and teachers for the 40 years he was its headmaster. He had principles he would not compromise, and he had a genuine interest in each boy, which did not come to an end when the boy left the Mesa, but followed him wherever he went." Cate died on January 3, 1976, aged 91. He is buried beneath Katherine Thayer Cate Memorial Chapel (named in honor of his wife), at the center of the Cate School campus.
Sexual Abuse
In 2020 and 2021, Cate was rocked by decades-old allegations of sexual abuse, as well as a 2020 incident in which a newly-hired faculty member attempted to seduce a female student. Dismissed, he was arrested the next year for further improprieties at another school. In October 2020, Cate hired an outside law firm to conduct an investigation into alleged faculty sexual abuse of students. In December 2021, the firm published a report naming seven faculty perpetrators and discussing allegations against an additional ten unnamed school employees. The abuse described occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s, save for an incident in the 1960s and the aforementioned 2020 incident. In October 2021, Cate established a Sexual Abuse Survivors Therapy Fund administered by
RAINN
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization, the largest in the United States. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, as well as the Department of Defense Safe Helplin ...
.
Academics
The academic curriculum features 101 course offerings with more than 40 advanced and honors courses. The average class size is 11 with a 5:1 student-faculty ratio. The school also provides the opportunity for independent study projects through the directed studies program and science research courses.
Freshmen and sophomores are required to take courses in English, History, Art, Mathematics, Science, and Human Development, as well as a foreign language with which the student is not already familiar. Juniors and seniors can choose from over 35 elective courses such as Oceanography, Comparative Government, and Film Studies.
From 2009-13, the most popular college selections of Cate graduates were
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
,
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...
,
University of Chicago
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and
Stanford University
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.
In 2016,
Niche
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*Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development
*Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species
*Niche differentiation, in ecology, the ...
ranked Cate School the twelfth-best private school in the nation,
Business Insider
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ranked it sixteenth (and fourth most selective), and toptestprep.com ranked it thirteenth.
Activities
All students are involved in an extracurricular program that includes athletics, drama, music, dance, community service and an extensive outdoors program which allows students to engage in many activities such as taking students surfing, sea kayaking, surf-kayaking, hiking, rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, and rafting.
Interscholastic athletic teams compete in squash, water polo, lacrosse, tennis, cross country, volleyball, football, soccer, basketball, track, baseball, softball, and surfing. Intramurals include ultimate frisbee, weight training, Tae Kwan Do, dance, and the aforementioned outdoors program.
In addition to the usual clubs and activities, Cate includes a 24-page newspaper, ''El Batidor'', a drama society that produces several productions each year, a literary magazine, ''The Cate Review'', and numerous musical groups that perform in concert and in what are known as "coffee house" presentations. Other sample clubs include: Mock Trial, the Pirate Club (ARRR), Junior Statesmen of America, the Martial Arts Club, Blue Crew, the Black Student Union (BSU), Ross Robins Club for Equality (RRCE), and the Film Society.
Cate School is home to a Student-Faculty Senate. The only official legislative body on campus, the Student-Faculty Senate is composed of both elected senators and appointed officials and deals with legislation concerning all aspects of community life. The senate is chaired by the Student Body President, the only official elected by a community-wide vote. Student senators are elected by their respective classes. Two others systems the school has in place are the Prefect and Teaching Assistant (T.A.) programs. Prefects are elected at the end of their junior year by students and faculty to serve as leaders, role-models, and "big brothers and sisters" in the dorms. T.A.s work with the Human Development department in their Sophomore and Freshman Seminars.
Students are also involved in service projects in the community. Students help tutor local schoolchildren, visit with the elderly and disabled, and work on local environmental improvement projects. Faculty and students also travel regularly to northern Mexico to work on community construction projects and help with children and their families in the Los Niños program, a Cate tradition for more than 30 years. Through the international
Round Square
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network students also have an opportunity to travel abroad for community service, work projects, and exchange programs.
["Life at Cate." Cate School. Retrieved from http://www.cate.org/life on August 2, 2013.]
Notable alumni
Literature
*
Barnaby Conrad
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Born in San Francisco, California to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year ...
, author, artist, and bullfighter. Later became Cate art teacher.
*
Larry Niven
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, science fiction author (''
Ringworld
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'')
Athletics
*
Geoffrey Acheampong, professional footballer for
LA Galaxy II
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*
Ema Boateng, professional footballer for the
New England Revolution
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*
Tracye Lawyer-Thomas, American
heptathlete
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*
Joshua Yaro
Joshua Yaro (born 18 November 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for St. Louis City SC in Major League Soccer.
Career
Youth and college
Joshua moved to the United States on a scholarship to attend Cate School in Carpinteria ...
, professional footballer for the
Philadelphia Union
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Academia
*
James S. Ackerman
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, prominent architectural historian, author, and Harvard University professor
*
Dayton Hyde
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Most of his books take place in rural, agricultural settings where he spent the majority of his life. His books advo ...
, author and conservationist
*
Antony Garrett Lisi, author of
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
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*
Mark Whitney Mehran, author, land speed racer, hot rod and chopper builder
*
Burton Smith
Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 2, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft.
Education
Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as ...
, computer architect and Technical Fellow at
Microsoft
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*
George Ledyard Stebbins
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, leading evolutionary biologist
*
Bill Andrews, molecular biologist known for his work on curing aging.
*
Warren C. Breidenbach III, surgeon known for having performed the first long-term successful hand transplant surgery
Television & Music
*
Nadine Jolie Courtney
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, novelist and
Bravo
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TV personality
Newlyweds: The First Year.
*
David Crosby
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Crosby joined the Byrds in 1964. They got ...
, musician (
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
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)
*
Conrad Hall
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,
Academy Award
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winning cinematographer (''
American Beauty'', ''
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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'')
*
Werner Klemperer
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, actor/musician, best known for his role as Colonel Klink in the 1970s television show ''
Hogan's Heroes
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''
*
Stephen Malkmus
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, musician, formerly of the band
Pavement
*
Catherine Reitman
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, television and film actress
*
Terry Sanders
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, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
*
Billy Steinberg
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,
Grammy Award
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winning songwriter (
Like a Virgin,
True Colors)
*
Paul Simms
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, creator of the television sitcom ''
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''
*
Chris Strachwitz
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, founder of Arhoolie Records and music preservationist
Business & Politics
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Sir John Bond, former Chairman and CEO of
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*
Otis Chandler
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, former publisher of the ''
Los Angeles Times
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''
*
Lewis Nixon, United States Army officer in World War II
*
William Matson Roth, 2nd United States
Trade Representative, shipping executive, regent of the University of California, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and preservationist
*
Malcolm Wallop
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, U.S. Senator from
Wyoming
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Notes
References
External links
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