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Ransom Everglades Community Completes Most Successful Capital Campaign in School’s History

In November 2008, Ransom Everglades School successfully concluded the most ambitious Capital Campaign ($20 million) in the school's history. The Inspiring Dreams Changing Lives Capital Campaign received pledges and gifts totaling more than $21 million. This support helped double our previous endowment fund, which supports our financial aid program and the financial support needed for recruiting, rewarding, and retaining a superior faculty. In addition, these funds helped support the renovation of the Everglades middle school campus with the relocation of the entrance from Emathla Road to Tigertail Road, building of the Braman Family Media Center which features a new library, media room and five new classrooms of which three are computer laboratories, construction of our multi-purpose Community Center, which features administration offices, five classrooms and full gymnasium, and a regulation playing field. Lastly, it assisted the funding of a synthetic playing field with lights on the Ransom upper school campus.

Many thanks to the Board of Trustees, parents, parents of alumni, students, alumni, faculty, administration, corporations, and friends of the Ransom Everglades School community who volunteered and donated their time, effort, and money. The success of this campaign is a reflection of the dedicated support of this wonderful institution and of Paul Ransom’s belief that the best classes of citizens are the ones who think, “They are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it.”

Everglades campus Community Center, view from front.

Everglades campus Community Center, main entrance.

Everglades campus Community Center, new main entrance from Tigertail.

View of the Everglades campus enlarged Stamps Family Field.

Everglades campus Community Center, view from south side.

Everglades campus Braman Family Media Center.

Everglades campus , renovated World Languages building.

Ransom Campus Robert Walker Field