Wooster School
91 Miry Brook Road, Danbury, CT, 06810-0681 - View a map of this school Map  tel: (203)830-3916
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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  

School Overview:
Wooster School
School Level Elementary and Secondary school
School Membership(s) National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES)
Institute for Independent Education
The Association of Boarding Schools
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 ) Elementary and Secondary School Avg.
% 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
This School ( CT ) Elementary and Secondary School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio 1:6 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%
Headmaster Timothy Golding
Admissions Director Gary Taylor
 
Sports:    
Total Sports Offered 9

Sports
BaseballBasketball
Cross CountryGolf
LacrosseSoccer
SoftballTennis
Volley Ball 
 
Extracurricular:    
Total Extracurricular Organizations 12

Extracurriculars
Student LeadershipInformation Technology
Big Brother Big SisterAmnesty International
Year Book weight lifting
The General: The Student Voice of Wooster Outdoor Education
Music Multi-cultural club
Chess Art
 
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
 
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About This Zip Code ( 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 49 years old 48 years old
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% Owning / % Renting 44% / 56% 64% / 36%
 
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