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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. ...read more
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Wooster School |
| School Level |
Elementary and Secondary school
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| School
Membership(s) |
National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES)
Institute for Independent Education
The Association of Boarding Schools |
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| Religious Affiliation |
Episcopal |
| Grades Offered |
Grades Prekindergarten - 12 |
| Year
Founded |
1926 |
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County |
Fairfield County, CT |
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| Total
Students |
365 students |
| Student
Body Type |
Co-ed |
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Elementary and Secondary School Avg. |
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| % Students of
Color |
14% |
25% |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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School |
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CT )
Elementary and Secondary School Avg. |
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| Teacher
: Student Ratio |
1:6 |
1:7
*Ntl.
Public School Avg. »
1:16
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| School
Days in Calendar Year |
170 days |
180 days |
| Hours
in School Day for Students |
9 hours |
6 hours |
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| 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% |
| Headmaster |
Timothy Golding |
| Admissions
Director |
Gary Taylor |
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| Total
Sports Offered |
9 |
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Sports |
| Baseball | Basketball | | Cross Country | Golf | | Lacrosse | Soccer | | Softball | Tennis | | Volley Ball | |
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| Total Extracurricular
Organizations |
12 |
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Extracurriculars |
| Student Leadership | Information Technology | | Big Brother Big Sister | Amnesty International | | Year Book | weight lifting | | The General: The Student Voice of Wooster | Outdoor Education | | Music | Multi-cultural club | | Chess | Art |
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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| About This
Zip Code (
06810 ) |
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Zip (
06810 ) |
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CT ) State Average |
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| 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 |
49 years old |
48 years old |
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| %
Owning / % Renting |
44% / 56% |
64% / 36% |
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