An educator, Dr. Paul Cummins, and a biochemist, Dr. Rhoda Makoff, founded the secular Crossroads School in 1971. Initially, its enrollment included 30 7th and 8th grade students. Crossroads gradually expanded into two campuses and attracted the sons and daughters of Hollywood personalities and a cross-section of need-based students from around Los Angeles. Tuition at what has become an elite private school was about $30,000 per year in 2009. The Crossroads Elementary School opened in 09/1997.

Tel: 310.828.1196 (2009); the Crossroads School, a private K-12 school in Santa Monica, CA, had two separate facilities, separated by two blocks. The Norton Campus houses the Crossroads Elementary School, Admissions Office, and K-12 Sports Center; the 21st Street Campus contained the Middle School, Upper School, and Administrative Offices.

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