Roycemore School

Roycemore School is an independent, nonsectarian, co-educational college preparatory school located in Evanston, Illinois serving students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 12. The school's current enrollment is approximately 240 students as of 2021. The school's old building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2022, for the state of Illinois, Niche ranked Roycemore School as the #1 most diverse private high school, the sixth-best private high school, and the fifth-best private K–12 school. The school currently has a six-to-one student-to-teacher ratio. History Roycemore School was founded in 1915 by Julia Henry and a group of North Shore parents at 640 Lincoln Street, Evanston, IL. Henry was originally the Lower School principal at the Girton School for Girls in Winnetka, IL, taking several faculty members and students with her to the new Roycemore. The school was named after Henry's grandfather, Andrew Royce, a Congregational minister in Barre, Vermont in the 1800s. The school took on the Royce family crest inspiring the blue and gold school colors, the motto "fortis et prudens simul," or strength and careful judgement go together, and the mascot, the griffin. In 1968, the first boy graduated, alone in a class of six. Its original location was in north Evanston, Illinois, near Northwestern University. The former Roycemore School building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.