Collegiate School (New York City)

Collegiate School holds the distinction of being the oldest school in the United States, with a history stretching back to sixteen twenty-eight. It began as a small Latin grammar school established by the Dutch West India Company in the colony of New Amsterdam. For over a century after the British took control of the region, the school stubbornly maintained its Dutch identity, conducting classes in the language and serving the Dutch Reformed community. Its long survival is marked by frequent movement, having changed locations more than a dozen times across the city over the last four centuries.