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Wooster School is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school, serving students from Fairfield and Westchester Counties.
Located in Danbury, Connecticut, the School serves students from Pre-K through grade 12.
A leader in classroom innovation and teaching, Wooster School is a place where thinking and learning are personal, meaningful, and visible; and where faculty work closely with students in small classes and cohorts to think and communicate critically and creatively.
At Wooster, every student participates, every student contributes, and every student learns and develops the necessary skills to be a life-long learner and leader in college and beyond.
DLI Advanced Chemical Applications, DLI Advanced Physics, DLI Art and the Making of Meaning, DLI Calculus 1, DLI Calculus 2, DLI Complexity and Life, DLI Europe in the Short 20th Century, DLI Literature of the Outsider, DLI Spanish Culture and Film, DLI Statistics and Big Data, DLI The Essay, DLI The Story, DLI Thermal and Statistical Physics, DLI US History: Cultural Calamity and American Resolve
Club or Organization: Big Brother Big Sister, Business Club, Dance Club, MakerSpace, Mindful Club, Physics Club, Public Speaking, Writing Club, Year Book
Arts and Music Programs: Art, Music
School Notes
Why Wooster?
At Wooster School, our learning environment is built on the bedrock
of relationships because we know that people learn best when they
feel physically, intellectually and emotionally safe. Through our
small class groupings (5 15 students) students learn to develop
relationships with teachers and fellow students that allow them to
best develop their own intellectual and emotional intelligence.
While developing "academic skills" like reading, writing, and
computation is an important part of our mission, our ultimate goal
is to produce independent thinkers who can use those skills to
observe, analyze, understand, collaborate and create in multiple
contexts. We don`t just want to create "academic rigor" for our
students, but rather want students who build skills and pursue
intellectual rigor through our academic programs. We also recognize
that if we aspire to produce independent, successful, young adults
who have an emerging sense of purpose, we need to teach our
students at all levels how to use their developing skills and
dispositions in the service of the communities within which they
live and work. As such, an emphasis on the whole life of the
Wooster school community, and the roles and responsibilities of
students as community members, has been intrinsic to our culture
since our founding in 1926.
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Wooster School ranks among the top 20% of private schools in Connecticut for: Largest student body.
When is the application deadline for Wooster School?
The application deadline for Wooster School is Feb. 1 / rolling (applications are due on Feb. 1 but additional applications are reviewed year-round as space permits ).
School Calendar
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The average private school tuition in Fairfield County, CT is $22,134 for elementary schools and $31,915 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).
