Wooster School
School Notes Overview:
Wooster School is a caring, joyful community where meaningful relationships characterize an exceptional education. A day school serving 350 boys and girls in grades K – 12, Wooster combines academic excellence with a profound emphasis on community, character, and kindness. The curriculum emphasizes the joy of learning, creating lifelong readers, writers, and problem solvers. Extensive art, music, theater, and athletic programs, a vital honor code, weekly chapel service, daily campus stewardship, and required community service cultivate the intellectual, athletic, creative, spiritual, and ethical growth of our students – for their benefit and for the good of our world. ...
School Overview:
Wooster School |
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| School Membership(s) |
National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES) Institute for Independent Education The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) |
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| Religious Affiliation | Episcopal | ||
| Grades Offered | Grades Prekindergarten - 12 | ||
| Year Founded | 1926 | ||
| County | Fairfield County, CT | ||
| Student Body | |||
| Total Students | 365 students | ||
| Student Body Type | Co-ed | ||
This School |
(CT) School Avg. |
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| % Students of Color | 14% | 25% | |
| Students by Grade | |||
| Pre-K - 10 students | |||
| Kind - 10 students | |||
| Grade 1 - 13 students | |||
| Grade 2 - 16 students | |||
| Grade 3 - 17 students | |||
| Grade 4 - 23 students | |||
| Grade 5 - 26 students | |||
| Grade 6 - 26 students | |||
| Grade 7 - 28 students | |||
| Grade 8 - 45 students | |||
| Grade 9 - 41 students | |||
| Grade 10 - 43 students | |||
| Grade 11 - 30 students | |||
| Grade 12 - 37 students | |||
| Academics and Faculty | |||
| Total Classroom Teachers | 64 teachers | ||
| % Faculty with Advance Degree | 43% | ||
| Average Class Size | 12 | ||
| Number of AP Courses | 18 | ||
| List of Courses Offered | Link to List of Courses | ||
| Average SAT score | 1287 | ||
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(CT) School Avg. |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio | 1:7 | * Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16 | |
| School Days in Calendar Year | 170 days | 180 days | |
| Hours in School Day for Students | 9 hours | 6 hours | |
| Finances and Admission | |||
| Admission Deadline | None / Rolling | ||
| Tuition Notes | Tuition depends on grade level: Pre K $13,900 up to $27,700 for 12th grade | ||
| % on Financial Aid | 29% | ||
| Average Financial Aid Grant | $13,500 | ||
| Acceptance Rate | 50% | ||
| Head of School | Timothy Golding | ||
| Admissions Director | Gary Taylor | ||
| Sport | |||
| Total Sports Offered | 9 | ||
Sports |
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| Baseball | Basketball | ||
| Cross Country | Golf | ||
| Lacrosse | Soccer | ||
| Softball | Tennis | ||
| Volley Ball | |||
| Extracurricular | |||
| Total Extracurricular Organizations | 12 | ||
Extracurriculars |
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| Amnesty International | Art | ||
| Big Brother Big Sister | Chess | ||
| Information Technology | Multi-cultural club | ||
| Music | Outdoor Education | ||
| Student Leadership | The General: The Student Voice of Wooster | ||
| Year Book | weight lifting | ||
School Notes:
- Can a school be accomplished, competitive, successful and kind? It can be if it’s Wooster School. From prekindergarten through middle school to college preparation, a Wooster education combines academic excellence with a profound emphasis on community, character, and compassion. Our PK-12, coeducational, day school cultivates the intellectual, athletic, creative, spiritual and ethical growth of students for their benefit and for the good of the world.
- Located on the Ridgefield-Danbury border, Wooster has been committed to diversity in its student body and staff since 1926. Our 125 acre scenic campus provides a peaceful and safe environment that offers a variety of habitats for experimentation, direct study, and outdoor fun. The Lower School (PK-5) provides a language-rich environment that emphasizes the joy of learning, creating lifelong readers, writers, and problem solvers. The program features foreign language instruction that begins in kindergarten, thematic units that combine art and music with an interdisciplinary approach to learning, a science lab, computer competency, and excellent recreational facilities.
- The Middle School (6-8) program is designed to help students learn how to be effective learners in a safe, caring context that explicitly and implicitly teaches children about appropriate social interaction. The curriculum includes math classes grouped by ability, Latin, French, Spanish, geography, advisory groups, academic tournaments, instrumental music, try-outs for 32 sports teams, and a host of age-appropriate extra-curricular activities.
- The Upper School (9-12) features eighteen Advanced Placement courses, a Year Abroad Program in France or Spain, independent study, colloquia, professional artist/teachers, leadership experience in our “self-help” program, extensive community service opportunities, and undefeated league champions or finalists in boys’ baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis as well as girls’ basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and volleyball. Recent Wooster graduates currently attend Amherst, Barnard, Boston College, Cambridge University, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, Hamilton, NYU, Pratt Institute of Art, Princeton, RIT, UMichigan, Wesleyan, and Williams among other schools.
- Profile last updated: 02/11/2008
In the News:
- Immaculate parish bazaar is this weekend (The News-Times)
posted on November 13, 2009 at 02:28:18 am
BULLETIN BOARDImmaculate Heart of Mary offers bazaarA holiday bazaar is set for Nov. 14 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, 149 Deer Hill Ave.For more information, call 203-797-1821Debate focus is nuclear weaponsU. - Friday's Scholastic Roundups (Norwalk Advocate)
posted on October 17, 2009 at 02:05:31 pm
Stamford 3, Wilton 1: Carlos Calix scored twice while C.J. Lyle also tallied as Stamford continued its FCIAC playoff push by downing Wilton. For Stamford, now 4-0-1 in its last five games and 5-3-3 overall, Yeison llanos made two saves in net. - Friday's Scholastic Roundups (Stamford Advocate)
posted on October 17, 2009 at 03:37:38 am
BOYS SOCCER Stamford 3, Wilton 1: Carlos Calix scored twice while C.J. Lyle also tallied as Stamford continued its FCIAC playoff push by downing Wilton. - Chicago businessman inspires Wooster School students (Connecticut Post)
posted on October 16, 2009 at 01:12:32 am
DANBURY--"Anything is possible," was the message behind Martin Nesbitt's words Wednesday when he spoke to about 300 students, teachers, parents and faculty members at Wooster School on Miry Brook - GIRLS SWIMMING AND DIVING, GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, BOYS SOCCER: THS swimming and diving still undefeated (The Register Citizen)
posted on October 8, 2009 at 06:34:27 am
WATERBURY — The Torrington girls swimming and diving team remained undefeated Wednesday as they cruised to an 85-75 win over Kennedy.
School Zip Statistics:
| About This Zipcode (06810) | School Zip (06810) |
(CT) State Average |
| Population (Approximate) | 44,961 people | 3,405,565 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree | 26% | 41% |
| Population Average Age | 34 years old | 37 years old |
| Average Household size | 2.7 persons | 2.4 persons |
| Median Household Income | $46,116 | $56,323 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household | 4.6 rooms | 5.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure | 50 years old | 48 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting | 44% / 56% | 64% / 36% |
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