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• School Motto: Veritatem Vereantur
• School Mascot: Rowdy

Founded in 1911, Cotter Schools, is a private, co-educational day and boarding school located in Winona, Minnesota, USA. Cotter Schools serves motivated and engaged students from 16 months through grade 12. Cotter Schools offers boarding for students in grades 7-12. With over 1,200 students from the Winona area and from over 14 countries around the world. Together, we are Cotter!At Cotter Schools, our mission is to challenge students to achieve their full potential and use their lives in the service of others. Our interdisciplinary, liberal arts education helps students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity, preparing them to meet the needs of an ever-changing world.More than 98 percent of our students go on to college and attend some of the best schools in the country. Our curriculum includes numerous honors and Advanced Placement courses that offer a more rigorous curriculumand the potential for earning college credit.At Cotter Schools, you'll experience faith and community, excellence in education, individualized attention, and opportunities to grow. Our goal is to challenge, support, and inspire our students! Cotter is, and always will be, a place where we challenge YOU to be the difference!

• MISSION:
• Cotter Schools challenges students to achieve their full potential and use their lives in the service of others.
• BELIEFS:
• -As a Catholic learning community, we believe: God is present in all creation.
• -Each person is valuable and deserves respect.
• -Education prepares peopleto build a better world.
• -In community, everyone grows.
• COTTER CORE VALUES:
• - Community
• - Faith
• - Service
• - Respect

• Sample of notable school alumni/alumnae:
  • Bob Kierlin '57 - Founder of Fastenal Company, a $7.5 Billion Fortune 500 company.
  • Damien Fair '94 - Was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grand" for his work on stydying the brain while at rest.
  • Jay Carrol '80 - Founder and CEO of Carroll Management Consultants and SeQuel Response. Also played as a tightend for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Minnesota Vikings ('84-'86)
  • Andy Ballard '01 - A Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for developing a program which, using artificial intelligence, solved the riddle of predicting protein structures.
  • Chris Green '91 - Top 5 trial lawyers in Massachusetts and top 50 trial lawyers in the USA.