Latin School

[Clifford Black]

Alumni of Boston Latin School, the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States, have included four Harvard presidents, four Massachusetts governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. Boston Latin School admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. Admission is determined by a combination of a student's score on the Independent School Entrance Examination and recent grades, and is limited to residents of the city of Boston. Although Boston Latin runs from the 7th through the 12th grade, it admits students only into the 7th and 9th grades. Several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Pops orchestras are all graduates of the school. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including Louis Farrakhan (pictured), leader of the Nation of Islam. (Full list...)

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[Adisa]

I have been researching the signers of the Declaration of Independence, all the signers received an education that included Latin studies. 

[Clifford Black]

@Adisa---

Look in a college dictionary and go thru the contextual definitions until you come across what "grammar school" is defined as, and then you will have an ah ha moment.

B.

[Adisa]

Yessir, I have located that.  Since having that ah ha moment, I have heard others who I know mention attending grammar school, yet do not know the vowels.