Riverfield Country Day School

Private school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

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Riverfield Country Day School

Address

2433 West 61st Street

Tulsa

Oklahoma

74132

United States

Coordinates| 36°04′31″N 96°01′11″W﻿ / ﻿36.075343°N 96.019855°W﻿ / 36.075343; -96.019855
Information
Religious affiliation(s)| Unaffiliated
Founded| 1984
Founder| Marty Clark
Head of school| Jerry Bates
Grades| Infants-12
Campus size| 120 acres (49 ha)
Color(s)| Blue, Green, and White
Song| "Riverfield, O Riverfield"
Athletics| Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country, Tennis, Golf, Volleyball, Academic Bowl, ESports
Mascot| Big Blue
Nickname| Ravens
Accreditation| Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS)
Publication| BluePrint Magazine
Website| Riverfield Country Day School

Riverfield Country Day School (RCDS) is a private school based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

Riverfield Country Day School was founded in 1984 by a group of parents and teachers working with Marty and Tom Clark. This group's motivation was to provide an enhanced opportunity for educational growth and personal development for their children, with an emphasis on the whole child.

The school opened in August 1984 in a remodeled post office, with 40 children from three months old to second grade. The long-range plan included a country campus with outdoor learning. However, when enrollment more than doubled in five months, plans were accelerated to move "to the country," across the Arkansas River in a field, thus the name Riverfield Country Day School.

In 1991, Riverfield relocated to the first wing on its current campus. The following year, an additional wing with a library and music room was added to serve the growing demand for elementary grades. The Middle School opened in August 1994, bringing the total facility to more than 40,500 square feet serving more than 400 students. Two donations of property from grandparent and former Board member Steve Jatras and a school-funded purchase brought the total acreage to 90.

Riverfield began a new era in August 2002, with the addition of a freshman class. The school embarked on the "Spreading Our Wings" capital campaign in order to build facilities to accommodate the growing student body. The campaign was successful, thanks in large part to the generosity of Tulsa philanthropist Genave Rogers. On Visiting Day in November 2004, the Clark Gymnasium and Genave Rogers Upper School were dedicated with the help of Dr. Jane Goodall who joined us to dedicate the Science Lab in memory of Tim O’Halloran, the first Upper School Head.

In August 2006, Ms. Rogers made another private donation for the purchase of an additional 30 acres to the northwest of the current property. This brought the campus to 120 total acres. The Langerak Academic Center was added in the spring of 2008, the Martha S. Clark Field was dedicated in the fall of 2010 and four tennis courts hosted their first matches in the spring of 2011.

During the 2011-12 school year, administrators, faculty, Board members, students, parents, and alumni worked together on a Strategic Plan that will chart Riverfield's course for 2012-17. Focus areas of the Strategic Plan are culture; programming; school community; faculty, administration, and staff; physical plant and facilities; and finance and development. A new Upper and Middle School building was recently completed (as of the 2013-14 school year), complete with a computer lab with a green-screen, a cafeteria, three science labs, as well as classrooms for foreign languages, English, math, and history.

The Upper and Middle School expansion, temporarily named the High School Building, seen completed next to the Rogers building in January 2014.

RCDS has a summer camp called "Camp Raven" which spans 10 weeks in the summer, and includes a variety of different camps within which have their own themes. Programs have expanded to include Riverfield Theatre Co., Riverfield Film Lab, and Esports.

The 120-acre campus now also features a soccer field, nature-play spaces, four tennis courts, the expanded Clark Gymnasium, and the Center for Creativity-housing Riverfield Rocks, Riverfield Theatre Co's Smolen Family Black Box Theatre, Makers Space, Esports, Riverfield Film Lab, the Weese open-air Art Studio.[citation needed]

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* official page