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Being born to lead does not guarantee that one will.
Leadership starts early.
The potential has to be developed and nurtured, and that is what the Baylor School educational experience does. For over a century, we have tended the seeds of leadership present in all our students. With proper care, the seeds flower into core values: honesty, respect, spirituality, persistence, individuality – principles that fuel real leadership in college and beyond.
At Baylor, classes like Leadership Exploration help students put their skills to the test in the community. One class worked for a semester with Lead2Feed, a national leadership program, earning them $10,000 to donate to the Humane Society of Chattanooga.
Central to the task is the Baylor Honor Code. Dating to 1916, the code provides a structure within which students come to appreciate honesty, mutual respect, and their word as their bond. As that understanding turns into practice, those values form a foundation of trust, independence and responsibility from which Baylor students have launched careers with the UN, won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, developed life-saving cardiac diagnostics, and advanced the Human Genome Project. When you leave Baylor, you’ll have what it takes to lead.
BaylorLaunches. These are just a few of the colleges and universities Baylor graduates have recently attended. Amherst College Boston University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Duke University Georgetown University Harvard University Princeton University Rhodes College Stanford University Vanderbilt University Wake Forest University Yale University
The Baylor Honor Code
ding “The honor system is an understan among Baylor students that we do lie, not want among us one who will cheat, steal, or falsify information. I understand this principle, and I to recognize that I shall be expected live in accordance with it.�
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When it comes to leading in the classroom,
perfect test scores are a nice start. If Baylor School evaluated student success on the strength of our test scores, we could easily rest on our laurels. In just the
past few years, our students have earned perfect scores on the ACT, SAT, and National Latin Exam. At Baylor, however, high test scores are just one of the ways we define academic excellence. When rising seniors apply for the opportunity to spend a week in Washington, D.C. exploring ethics, honor, and service, we see excellence. When science students use our professional–grade laboratories to genotype their own DNA, we see excellence. When a senior capstone project raises thousands of dollars for cancer patients, we see excellence. 6
No matter how many awards and accolades our students may earn, nothing makes us prouder than the passion and enthusiasm they bring to Baylor every day.
Leadership has many faces.
At Baylor, there are more than a thousand of them – students finding their leadership stride in the classroom, on the court, at the easel, on the stage, or out in the community. Within each of our Gates Scholars, Presidential Scholars and National Merit Semifinalists, we also see the tech wizard, the mixed media artist, the social activist, and the champion athlete. Academics elevated.
The Harris-Stanford Honors Program gives some of Baylor’s highestachieving scholars uncommon
opportunities like discussing public policy with Tennessee state officials during a behind-the-scenes visit to the capitol in Nashville, or discussing the merits of civic service at the Institute for Public Trust in Charlotte. Learn more: www.baylorschool.org/honorsprogram. A life-changing capstone.
For her senior capstone project, Carley Hawkins organized a fall break service trip to New York City. Seven students joined her to work with elementary school children and a Bronx peer group. Learn more: www.baylorschool. org/capstones.
Lauren Johnson not only achieved a perfect ACT score, but also won a state golf championship with the Baylor team. She now attends Vanderbilt on the prestigious Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship.
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BaylorInspires. Our instructors have earned Fulbright Scholarships and the Presidential Award for Excellence, and more than 70 percent hold advanced degrees from schools like Cornell, Emory, Vanderbilt, and Harvard.
Unparalleled engagement Motivated by teachers like Chris Watkins, students are happy to give their all. And they get plenty back in
return. In his English IV Voices on Equality class, Watkins skillfully guides students to think beyond the simple answers, to peel apart fundamental ideas and reach elusive conclusions – valuable skills for college and the workplace beyond it.
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International experts. Baylor’s science department chair Dr. Dawn Richards visited China to serve as an expert and chairman at the Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Health and Pollution Control. Leading authorities. When Baylor students need insight into the intricacies of mathematics, they go straight to the source: Dr. Dan Kennedy. His calculus and algebra textbooks are used by millions of students nationwide. Groundbreaking visionaries. In Perry Key’s “flipped” classroom, conventional elements such as lectures and homework are turned upside down. Students review content on their own and come to class for activity-driven work and collaborative conversation.
A look inside the aniMAKE studio: • Green screen • Writeable glass wall • Stop-motion figures • Claymation clay • iPads • 3-D printer
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Creativity tapped. Teenage minds are a swarm of unique ideas. So Baylor has created a space
“Kids do amazing things in the
where students’ theoretical notions become tangible creations. The aniMAKE studio is an
aniMAKE studio, because they
intellectual petri dish where English classes film Shakespeare reenactments, science students create comics about invasive species, middle schoolers cast Legos in their stop-motion films. Here, students see learning through a whole new, world-changing, brain-opening lens, and they’re proving that, if they can imagine it, they can make it.
have the freedom to go on an adventure – to explore.” ~ Julie King, Head Librarian
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OUR MISSION:
To foster in our students both the ability and the desire to make a positive difference in the world.
The world could use more leaders. Before our students can make a positive difference in the world, they need to understand more about it. World travel
develops perspective, cultural awareness, and empathy, and it prepares Baylor students to lead through collaboration and tolerance. Art and culture inspire the Liz Aplin trip to Italy. Washington, D.C. is the destination for the David M. Abshire Civic Leadership trip and the annual eighth grade class trip. Community service students visit Kingston, Jamaica. Walkabout takes students to India, Panama, and Maine. Want to live abroad for a semester? Apply to one of our exchange programs in Australia, South Africa, or Spain. Closer to home, become a Global Scholar, our distinction for students who apply an international lens to their education by studying world languages, taking globally-focused courses, participating in activities like Model UN, and conducting Senior Global Capstone Projects. There’s a whole wide world to explore, and Baylor leads you to it. No language barriers.
Global focus means fluency in foreign languages. Baylor sixth graders take a quarter each of Spanish, German, Latin, and Chinese, then are allowed to choose the language they will study for the next two years. Once they reach the Upper School, they can become even more proficient in that language, or explore another one. This innovative approach has paved the way for Chinese 500 – the only college level Chinese course offered in area high schools.
The Barks-Guerry Faculty Global Study Grant Program
supports faculty travel that enriches classroom instruction and supports Baylor’s mission.
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“One Baylor.” On average, Baylor welcomes students from 20 countries, 24 states, and dozens of area neighborhoods. There are six dorms, diverse families and faiths, divergent backgrounds and cultures and numerous traditions.
simply choosing an outfit for the homecoming dance. They’re also here to keep schedules and activities on track, working with student prefects and proctors to help their fellow students through everything from homesickness to homework.
But there’s just one Baylor.
The Baylor boarding community fosters selfconfidence, mutual respect, independence and interdependence to a degree that most students won’t experience until college. With the Baylor family’s support, just about anything is possible.
The sense of community runs deep here. It starts with dorm parents. More than 40 faculty members live on campus. When the school day ends, they transform into mediators, mentors, counselors, cooks, and crisis managers – even if the “crisis” is
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BaylorWelcomes.
As Aden George-Warren sees it,
Some of the first friends boarding
life in the Baylor dorms is more than
families will meet are Baylor’s Parent Alliance Ambassadors. These parent volunteers help new students move into the dorms and show up throughout the school year with birthday cakes and other home-baked treats. Dorm life is the good life. Baylor School has six dormitories, each with its own unique amenities: gorgeous views of the Tennessee River, stone patios, TV and study lounges, faculty families, and dozens of friendly housemates.
movie nights and chili cook-offs.
“You grow so tight with all your friends – it’s a gi-normous family. Right now, I have 36 brothers in Lupton Hall.”
Our river offers more than a beautiful view. Baylor’s campus is home to the Southeast’s only freshwater research center: the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute. The 14,000-square-foot facility gives students from around the state (and beyond) the unique opportunity to rub elbows with brilliant aquatic scientists. For some Baylor students, it’s a chance to dive even deeper into limnology – freshwater science – for their three-year scientific analysis and research program.
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STEAM On! True knowledge comes from putting every part of your brain to work. That’s why we are huge believers in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math). Here, it’s not just a buzzword; STEAM is a real approach to thinking, making, and doing. And it fuels student projects – from a solar water distiller to a 3D-printed quad copter to a claymation video about biodiversity. Today’s leaders need to see problems from innovative angles, to envision scenarios, and to offer creative and dynamic answers. The Baylor IdeaLab is a wide-open space where students learn coding, circuit design, business skills, and (maybe most important) collaboration that results in patents, prototypes, and publications. Baylor is teaching students to color outside the lines in order to find new answers inside them.
Technology’s Tools. The Weeks Science Building is supported with a $15 million endowment to ensure the most advanced program possible. In the words of one teacher, “It allows us to have all the best tools” for bringing STEAM theories to life: robots, apps, scoping devices, wind tunnels, computer programs, and much more.
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The end (of the day) is just the beginning. Leadership opportunities extend beyond the classroom.
When other campuses are winding down, Baylor kicks into high gear, and every student participates in after-school, cocurricular activities.
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Play in the jazz band, train with varsity teams, design costumes for a musical, or dedicate time to giving back through Baylor’s nationally-acclaimed community service program. Every year, students commit more than 40,000 hours to serving at home and abroad. They tutor kids at local schools, write grants to help underserved children, and work to improve educational opportunities for children in Kingston, Jamaica. On the stage, on the field, on the court, on the trail, in the pool or in the neighborhood rec center, Baylor students learn teamwork, empathy, collaboration, and improvisation – critical skills for emerging leaders. At the end of the day, there are dozens of ways to lead at Baylor.
“It never rains after three o’clock.” Legendary Baylor football coach James B. Rike once noted that Baylor only cancels afternoon activities when it rains. “But,” he declared, “It never rains after three o’clock.” Message received: Our students press on, rain or shine. BaylorCreates. For both academic electives and after class creativity, Baylor’s facilities are literally state-of-the-art. The Ireland Arts Studio features studio spaces for drawing, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, photography, computer graphics and painting – and it’s just one of three fine arts facilities on campus. All things theater take place in the Roddy Performing Arts Center, and the music building houses Baylor’s vocal and instrumental programs.
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Walkabout >> For more than 40 years, Baylor’s Walkabout program has been taking students (literally) outside their comfort zones.
Unleashing discovery. Trekking in India. Kayaking in Panama. Backpacking the Appalachian Trail. Each Walkabout journey is designed around skills that students learn every day after school. Taught by a team of adventure leaders that includes a Wilderness First Responder and a Whitewater Rescue Technician, Walkabout students love discovering the great outdoors.
Redefining spring break. Walkabout Director and Eastern Religions teacher Tim Williams describes the Walkabout trip to India as “a wonderfully uncomfortable spring break adventure.” Students live with Tibetan families, wander the banks of the Ganges River, and volunteer at Sikkim Happiness Home, where Himalayan children receive education, healthcare, and shelter.
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“I never would have gotten involved in something like Walkabout before I came to Baylor. It thrust me out of my comfort zone and I’m so thankful, because now I’m more comfortable trying new things.” ~ Esther Park, Baylor alumna
Boundary-defying adventures
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With nearly 100 state championships over the past decade, Baylor School athletic leadership is going strong. In a single year, the Red Raiders
have brought home titles in cross country, swimming, tennis, wrestling, track, fencing, golf, and softball, plus recent national rankings in softball and girls and boys swimming and soccer. And Baylor players aren’t just champions on the field; they also score plenty of academic points. With regular appearances on National Honor Society and Scholastic All-American rosters, it’s no wonder our scholar-athletes earn as many academic scholarships as athletic ones.
Aquatic. Academic. Acclaimed.
In 2015, Baylor was the only school in the U.S. to have both boys’ and girls’ teams earn the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s silver medal for academic achievement and finish in the top five in the National Dual Meet rankings.
SO MANY WAYS TO PLAY | BASEBALL | BA CREW | CROSS COUNTRY | GOLF | FENCING | SWIMMING & DIVING | TENNIS | TRACK
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FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. One of the few things that rivals our love of competition is the high standard of Baylor’s athletic facilities. • A state-of-the-art training and fitness center for elite athletes • A football stadium with artificial turf and a seven-lane track • Three baseball fields • A new soccer complex, including artificial and natural turf fields • An expansive wrestling facility
• An on-campus cross country course winding through the woods and along the river • 24 indoor and outdoor tennis courts • A short-game golf practice center
• A field house with weight rooms, a cardio room, a dance studio, a track, and equipment, training, and film rooms • An aquatic center and Olympicsized pool
• Three basketball courts that convert to volleyball, badminton, and fencing areas
Check out your favorite sport at www.baylorschool.org/athletics.
ASKETBALL | BOWLING | CHEERLEADING FOOTBALL | LACROSSE | SOCCER | SOFTBALL K & FIELD | VOLLEYBALL | WRESTLING
Outside magazine named Chattanoo
“Best Town Ev We couldn’t agree
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Outside magazine readers have learned what Baylor students have known for decades. If you love the great
outdoors, Chattanooga is the place to be. Within minutes of campus lie some of the country’s most beautiful hot spots for kayaking, rafting, hiking, biking, rock climbing, paddleboarding, hang gliding, and more.
Minor league baseball, semi-pro soccer, trendy boutiques, cozy coffee shops, IMAX movies, and miles of breath-taking riverfront paths … living up to the title of “Best Town Ever” is no easy task, but Chattanooga more than meets the challenge.
Boarding, but not bored. Every weekend, Baylor
For a more laid-back experience, visit the shops and restaurants on the NorthShore. Stroll across the pedestrians-only Walnut Street Bridge to the restaurants and galleries in the Bluff View Arts District. The Hunter Museum of Art has one of the nation’s largest collections of American art, and on the riverfront, you can come face-to-face with more than 10,000 animals at the Tennessee Aquarium.
boarding students get to taste what Chattanooga has to offer. Walkabout takes students rafting, hiking, bouldering or paddleboarding (and hosts sea kayaking and skiing trips on shorter school breaks). Shuttle buses run downtown and to the area’s main shopping mall. Overnight excursions to Atlanta and Nashville are led by our dedicated student activities staff. Spirit Week and special dinners heighten both competition and camaraderie. We want our boarding students to balance their work with play, and we offer plenty of it.
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MEET THE CLASS OF 2016 When Baylor students graduate, they’re not just alumni, they’re full-fledged world citizens.They go on to learn and lead at Princeton, Wake Forest, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. They’re wired for challenge, determined, and passionate.To help them chase down their dreams, Baylor counselors work one-on-one starting freshman year. And those efforts pay off big time. Every year, 100 percent of our graduates are accepted into college. And in the past five years, they’ve earned more than $65 million in scholarships. Lead on.
Pictured left to right are seniors G Soares, Haven Bethune,
100%
of the class of 2016 was accepted to colleges and universities in every major region of the country and abroad
57%
are attending private colleges and universities
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Florian Kirschenbauer, Francesca Watkins, Marly Toledano, Adam Greer, and Jazmin Simpkins.
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different merit scholarships were awarded
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appointments were granted by U.S. service academies
$16 million 43% 45 states/ 212 Offered more than
in merit-based and athletic scholarship aid
acceptances were offered from colleges and universities around the world,including Stanford, Harvard, Brown, and Princeton
are attending public universities
4 countries
will welcome Baylor students to their colleges and universities
Find out more at www.baylorschool.org/choices.
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FOUNDED IN
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Baylor’s guiding value system is led by 13 students and a faculty adviser
UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS: 50% BOYS/50% GIRLS
games trips sports movies museums outdoors + more RESIDENTIAL LIFE
320 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS: 50% BOYS/50% GIRLS
200 STUDENTS FROM 24 STATES AND 20 COUNTRIES LIVE IN THE BAYLOR RESIDENCE HALLS
6-12 DAY SCHOOL: GRADES
109 TEACHING FACULTY + ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS 66 HAVE MASTER’S DEGREES 15 HAVE DOCTORATES
MIDDLE SCHOOL CALENDAR
is organized on the quarter system UPPER SCHOOL CALENDAR
is organized on the semester system UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS
take a minimum of 20 units per semester including 16 required courses
PARTICIPATION IN A CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY SUCH AS ATHLETICS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, ART, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE, MUSIC, OR THEATER
is required.
528 AP exams, scoring 3 or higher on 77%
9-12 BOARDING SCHOOL: GRADES
LAST YEAR, 234 BAYLOR STUDENTS TOOK
74 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS
LAST YEAR TEST SCORES (MIDDLE 50% RANGE)
and 94% achieved a 3.0+
67% OF THE CLASS OF 2016 HAD A 3.5 GPA OR HIGHER
Act Composite: 23–29 SAT Math: 540–650 SAT Evidence Based Reading & Writing: 570–680 OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS GRADUATES HAVE MATRICULATED AT
190+ institutions worldwide
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BAYLOR STUDENTS EARNED OVER
$66
million
in college merit scholarships over the last five years
100
%
OF BAYLOR GRADUATES ATTEND COLLEGE
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT STAFF
Psychologist Learning Specialist Counseling Staff Learning Center Health Center College Counselors (3)
DORM PARENTS LIVE ON CAMPUS
ADMISSION TO BAYLOR =
selective + competitive
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Ready to lead? Visit us at www.baylorschool.org/admission. Call (423) 267-5902. Come for a tour. Take the lead. Apply.
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Baylor School admits students of any race, sex, color, religion, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. Baylor does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, financial aid programs, athletic programs, and other school-administered programs.