Education in Greenwich, Connecticut

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Greenwich, Connecticut has both a well-funded, high-achieving public school system and many private schools. The surrounding area has numerous colleges and universities, with a few in neighboring communities.

Contents 1 Public schools 1.1 Public elementary schools 1.2 Public middle schools 1.3 Public high school 1.4 Private schools 2 Higher education 2.1 Connecticut 2.2 New York state 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Public schools

[edit] Public elementary schools

Number of students (from school district Web site) can change and should be considered approximate:

• Cos Cob School — 415 students Grades K-5
• Glenville School — 429 students Grades K-5
• Hamilton Avenue School — 255 students Grades K-5
• International School at Dundee — 345 students Grades K-5
• Julian Curtiss School of World Languages — 351 students Grades K-5
• New Lebanon School — 237 students Grades K-5
• North Mianus School — 436 students Grades K-5
• North Street School — 474 students Grades K-5
• Old Greenwich School — 413 students Grades K-5
• Parkway School — 416 students Grades K-5
• Riverside School — 471 students Grades K-5

[edit] Public middle schools

• Central Middle School — 730 students Grades 6-8
• Eastern Middle School — 709 students Grades 6-8
• Western Middle School — 594 students Grades 6-8

[edit] Public high school

• Greenwich High School — 2,695 students Grades 9-12.

[edit] Private schools

• Brunswick School (K-12)
• Convent of the Sacred Heart (preK-12)
• Daycroft School (preK-12) (Closed) (Former Rosemary Hall campus)
• Eagle Hill School (K-10)
• Greenwich Academy (K-12)
• Greenwich Catholic School (preK-8), 471 North Street
• Greenwich Country Day School (K-9)
• The Greenwich Japanese School a.k.a. New York Nihonjin gakko, a Japanese expatriate school (K-9) (Acquired Daycroft School/Rosemary Hall Campus)
• Rosemary Hall (moved to Wallingford, Connecticut) (Sold campus to Daycroft School)
• Stanwich School (K-9, adding one grade each year until twelfth grade.) 257 Stanwich Road
• Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy (K-8) [http:/www.wfha.org] -- the school, founded in 1996 and opened in 1997 with 24 students in rented space in Port Chester, New York, later rented space from Temple Shalom in Greenwich before buying a 17-acre campus at 270 Lake Avenue from the Japanese Education Alliance in August 2006. Enrollment was 130 at the start of the 2006-2007 school year, but school officials plan to expand it to 325 students with two classes of 18 students each through eighth grade. The school had been adding a class, grade by grade each year, and in 2006 started adding a second class in each grade. In 2006, school officials said they planned to share the campus with the Greenwich Japanese School for the next few years.^[1]
• Whitby School (PS-8)

[edit] Higher education

Several colleges and universities are close to Greenwich, particularly Purchase College of the State University of New York, Manhattanville College, and the University of Connecticut campus in Stamford.

[edit] Connecticut

• University of Connecticut, Stamford campus
• Norwalk Community College
• University of Bridgeport
• Fairfield University
• Sacred Heart University in Fairfield
• Norwalk Community College
• Yale University
• Western Connecticut State University

[edit] New York state

• Purchase College of the State University of New York
• Manhattanville College a small, private, coeducational liberal arts college in Purchase, N.Y.
• Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y.
• Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.
• Pace University, with campuses in White Plains and Pleasantville-Briarcliff
• Concordia College, a four-year, co-educational liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y.
• Westchester Community College in Valhalla

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Hagey, Keach, "Hebrew Academy opens on new campus", The Advocate of Stamford, September 13, 2006, page A3

[edit] External links

• Greenwich Public Schools