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Chadwick School

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Chadwick School
File:Chadwick School.jpg
Location
26800 South Academy Drive

Palos Verdes Peninsula
,
California
90274

United States
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Information
TypeIndependent
Established1935; 91 years ago (1935)
Head of schoolJessica Donovan
Faculty106[1]
GradesK-12
Enrollment830[1] (2013-2014
  • Village School(K-6): 320
  • Middle School(7-8): 150
  • Upper School(9-12): 360
)
CampusSuburban
Campus size45 acres (18 ha)
ColorsNavy and white    
Athletics24 CIF Varsity teams
Athletics conferenceCIF Southern Section Prep League
MascotPacific bottlenose dolphin
Endowment$20,706,482
Websitechadwickschool.org

Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located in an unincorporated area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States.[2][3][4] Specifically it is located at the top of the neighborhood referred to as Academy Hill, which is bounded by a canyon, a precipice, Crenshaw Boulevard, and Palos Verdes Drive North.

History

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The school was founded in 1935[2] by Margaret Lee Chadwick and Commander Joseph Chadwick in San Pedro, California. In 1938, the school moved to Palos Verdes, California. In the beginning, Chadwick was an open-air day and boarding school for 75 students. After the retirement of the Chadwick family in 1963, the school created a board of trustees[2] and in 1968 discontinued its boarding program. In 1972, Chadwick joined the Cum Laude Society.[2] Up until the 1970s, the school owned all of the hill leading up to it, which was sold off to establish the school's endowment. As a result of the ensuing neighborhood development, the school's growth and traffic are constrained by a conditional-use permit with the Academy Hill Homeowners Association.[5] Since the 1970s, the school has opened more buildings, a gymnasium, and a performing arts center.[6] It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.[7] The movie adaptation of the book Mommie Dearest was filmed at Chadwick in 1981.[8][unreliable source?]

Student and faculty profile

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2025 student enrollment is 854 students across three schools: the Village School (K-6), the Middle School (grades 7-8), and the Upper School (grades 9-12). The student to faculty ratio is 8:1.[9] According to Niche 2025 rankings, the school ranked in the top 5% of independent schools in California and in the Los Angeles area. 80 percent of the faculty members held advanced degrees in the 2024-25 school year according to FindingSchool.com.[10]

Chadwick International

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File:Chadwick International2.jpg
Chadwick International's four-story atrium
Main article: Chadwick International

On January 13, 2010, the school announced that it would be administering and integrating a sister school in South Korea. Chadwick was the third school chosen to administrate the new school after a deal with Vancouver International Primary and Secondary School fell through. Prior to that, the International School Service had submitted plans to run the school but withdrew them.[11] Later in the process, the school's opening was delayed by Chadwick administrators when they failed to submit paperwork on time.[12]

The school is located in the Songdo International City, a city renowned for its efforts to "go green"[13] and is administratively a near replica of Chadwick School in Palos Verdes.[14] Headmaster Ted Hill has stated that the sister school will remain in contact with the originating school through the use of Telepresence equipment supplied by Cisco.[15]

The school opened on September 6, 2010, and completed its first year in June 2011. As of the 2013-14 school year, Chadwick International enrolled 780 students in grades pre-K through 10. Eleventh grade was added in September 2014, and the school graduated its first class in 2015-16. There are now frequent exchanges and visits between the two Chadwick campuses.[16][17]

Sperm whale skull fossil

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On February 5, 2014, a fossil of a sperm whale skull embedded in a boulder of Middle Miocene Era Altamira Shale located on the grounds of Chadwick School was removed to be studied at the L.A. County Natural History Museum.[18][19] An expert from the museum believed that the skull might be of a previously unknown species.[20][21] This event was widely covered by Los Angeles area news outlets.[22][23][24][25]

Extracurricular activities

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Athletics

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File:Chadwick field.jpg
Commander field in preparation for a game

Chadwick's main rivals are Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California[26] and Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California.[27]

Chadwick participates in 23 Varsity CIF sports. They include boys' football, tennis, volleyball, waterpolo, basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, and girls' tennis, volleyball, water polo, equestrian, basketball, soccer, golf, lacrosse, softball, and cheerleading. They also include coed cross country, swimming, and track and field.

In 2007, Chadwick reevaluated its image and decided that yellow was not an appropriate school color. It also realized that its athletics logo featured a non-native dolphin. After these realizations, the school designed a new blue, grey, and white logo featuring a native and more aggressive-looking dolphin.

In 2022, the school updated their baseball and softball fields with a $1.5 million gift from businessman and philanthropist Warren Lichtenstein, whose son attended Chadwick School. The fields were renamed the Lichtenstein Family Field.[28]

School newspaper

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The school newspaper, The Mainsheet, is published in print and online.[29] Online publication was restarted at the beginning of March 2012.[30][31]

Performing Arts

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Chadwick offers robust programs in Theater, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music and Dance. Performances take place throughout the community and at the Geoffrey Alan Laverty Center for the Performing Arts. [32] In 2015 the school was invited by producer John Gertz to pilot the first American school production of Zorro the Musical. [33] In 2025 (as well as in many previous years), the Chadwick Upper School Chorus took place in the National Youth Choir Festival at Carnegie Hall. [34]

Intracurricular activities

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Robotics

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In 2006 members of the high school community started Wicked Wobotics, team 2150, a FIRST Robotics Competition team.[35] The team won the Judges' choice award at the 2008 FIRST Robotics competition in Las Vegas, Nevada and was ranked sixth after the qualifying rounds.[36] The FRC team was discontinued in 2010.[37] The remaining team focused on the simpler and less expensive VEX Robotics Competition.

In 2011, the school added an optional robotics class to its science curriculum and moved into a larger room previously occupied by the maintenance department. In 2014, the team had 30 members and had to move to a much larger classroom. Chadwick Robotics also collaborates with the robotics program at the Chadwick International campus in Songdo, South Korea, sharing engineering techniques and innovative strategies for each year's contest.

Notable alumni

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Business

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Medical

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  • David Chadwick - clinical research pediatrician, author, founder of Chadwick Center for Children and Autism Discovery Institute-San Diego, 2019 recipient of Chadwick School Distinguished Alumnus

Entertainment

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Literature

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Athletics

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Notable staff

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In literature

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Nonfiction

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Fictional Chadwick School novels

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  • Surviving Chadwick: A Novel by Phillip Wilhite[72]
  • THE TRUST: A Secret Society Novel by Tom Dolby[73]
  • White Lines by Jennifer Banash. Several fictional teachers in the novel share their names with Chadwick faculty. For example, the character Mr. Cass in the novel shares his last name with a Chadwick teacher.[74][75] Dr. Banash herself taught English at Chadwick.[76]

Filmography

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Film
Year Film Notes
1981 Mommie Dearest Shot in main parking lot

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