Rye Country Day School

Rye Country Day School students are passionate learners and enjoy a challenging educational experience that combines intellectual mastery with real-world perspective. The RCDS community celebrates and embraces individuality within an accepting and inclusive environment. Students are bright, articulate, and engaged. They excel academically while also exploring art, music, athletics, and many other endeavors. Throughout their years at RCDS, students discover their unique strengths, expand on their capabilities, develop their intellects, and strive for the exceptional. 

RCDS students emerge from RCDS with strength of character, ready to engage in continuous learning, to show kindness and empathy, to adapt and thrive within a changing global context, to contribute meaningfully to their communities large and small, and to find joy and fulfillment in life. 

• Character: RCDS students cultivate strength of character through the development of social and emotional intelligences, strong and positive moral compasses, and passionate and principled actions. 
  
• Knowledge: RCDS students acquire and use knowledge in complex and meaningful ways. They transfer and apply their understandings beyond disciplines to address novel, real-world questions.
  
• Skills: RCDS students practice skills and habits essential for wellness and success in college, in work, and in life, including communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability.
  
• Citizenship: RCDS students make a positive difference in the world as aware, engaged, and purpose-driven citizens.

Core Values:
R - RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY
C COMMITMENT TO PERSONAL & ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
D DIVERSITY WITHIN AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
S SERVICE

Recent Matriculation: 
RCDS students are guided through a college process that leads them to be accepted into and flourish in the college or university that is right for them. In the last five years, RCDS has sent five or more students to the following colleges/univiersities (number of matriculating students noted in parentheses): 

• Cornell University (28)
• University of Pennsylvania (28) 
• Harvard University (23) 
• New York University (19) 
• Colgate University (16) 
• Brown University (13) 
• Georgetown University (13) 
• Vanderbilt University (12) 
• University of Michigan (11)
• University of Southern California (11) 
• Yale University (11) 
• Duke University (10) 
• Bucknell University (9)
• Dartmouth College (9) 
• Washington University in St. Louis (9)
• Northwestern University (8)
• Stanford University (8)
• Tufts University (8) 
• University of Chicago (7) 
• Columbia University (7) 
• Wake Forest University (7) 
• Wesleyan University (7) 
• Williams College (7) 
• Lafayette College (6) 
• Tulane University (6) 
• Middlebury College (6) 
• University of St. Andrews, UK (6) 
• Amherst College (5) 
• Princeton University (5) 
• Skidmore College (5) 
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (5)