Charlotte Latin School

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Charlotte Latin School is an independent, coeducational, non-sectarian, non-partisan, college-preparatory day school, founded in 1970, serving approximately 1,400 students in transitional kindergarten through twelfth grade and located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. In 1977, Charlotte Latin was the youngest school in the nation to be granted a Cum Laude Society charter, and has been named three times as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the United States Department of Education. The school is jointly accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Southern Association of Independent Schools, and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.HistoryIn 1969, a group of Charlotte parents decided to found a new school, modeled on New England's seventeenth century "Latin" schools. These parents wanted to make sure their children received a strong, traditional academic foundation, which they felt was being sacrificed by the public schools in favor of largely unproven teaching fads which included the 1969-1971 litigation which ultimately prompted a landmark US Supreme Court decision which resulted in court-enforced busing in 1971 to integrate the local public schools.