Chase Collegiate School
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Chase Collegiate School is a private day school offering education for children from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The 47-acre campus is located at 565 Chase Parkway in Waterbury, Connecticut. 67 faculty members educate approximately 475 students, who enroll from various nearby towns.
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[edit] History
The school traces its roots back to the Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, founded in Waterbury in 1865. After a few tumultuous years, including closure in 1874 due to financial difficulties, the school reopened in 1875 as the St. Margaret's School for Girls, an Episcopal diocesan school named after Queen Margaret of Scotland. St. Margaret's, throughout its history, was closely affiliated with the McTernan School, an independent all-boys school founded by Charles McTernan in 1912. After a brief time spent in a rented building near St. Margaret's original campus, McTernan erected a new building in 1916 on Columbia Boulevard. And when St. Margaret's split its campus in the late 1920s, the "Little School" moved in next door. This "Little School" taught girls from kindergarten through grade four, when they would continue on at the Chase Parkway campus of St. Margaret's (the current site of the school). It also taught boys from kindergarten through grade two, at which point they would go to the McTernan School.
In the early 1950s, The McTernan School purchased St. Margaret's "Little School," and a complete merger of the schools in 1972 resulted in St. Margaret's-McTernan School, a nondenominational and coeducational day school. Thirty-two years later, to eliminate the confusion of having Saint Margaret in the title of a non-religious day school, the school changed its name to Chase Collegiate.
[edit] Overview
Chase Collegiate School is committed to educating students in academics, athletics and the arts. All students are required to take at least five core classes and other electivrd throughout a year, and they are required to participate on athletic teams for at least two of the three trimesters. Students could also participate in one of the performing arts every year.
[edit] Athletics
Chase Collegiate provides many different sports for Middle School and Upper School to participate in. In the fall, there are Varisty Volleyball, JV volleyball, cross country, boys varsity soccer, boys jv soccer, and girls varsity soccer.
[edit] Notable Alumni
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