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 1.1.1 Hamilton Avenue School 1.1.2 Glenville School 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
• 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] Hamilton Avenue School

• 255 students Grades K-5

In 1935, Weston artist James Daugherty painted a mural "The Life and times of General Israel Putnam of Connecticut" which hung in the school's gymnasium for 60 years, "often knocked by errant basketballs", according to a news article in Greenwich Time newspaper. The mural depicts Greenwich's Revolutionary War hero "aiming his musket at snarling wolves while Native Americans hurl tomahawks and men armed with guns and knives tussle." In 1998 the mural was removed and restored with a $54,145 grant from the Ruth W. Brown Foundation. It was then hung in Greenwich Library, where it remains. The Chickahominy Neighborhood Association, along with many parents and other town residents, decided they didn't want a mural with such a violent theme in an elementary school.^[1]

[edit] Glenville School

• 429 students; Grades K-5

The school was built in the 1970s largely without internal walls or windows in what was called the "open classroom" style. The architectural style had some popularity at the time and was, in part, meant to be make efficient use of heating and air conditioning systems. According to a 2005 engineering study, sprinklers were needed and the school had to have replacements for its roof, the external walls (which are lightweight metal panels) and the HVAC (heating, ventilating and air-conditioning) system.^[2]

In 2007, Glenville parents told the Greenwich Board of Estimates and Taxation that the school's toilets often overflowed, the roof leaked, the heating and air-conditioning systems were faulty and the carpets, not changed in 30 years, were moldy and unhealthy for their children. A $22.7 million renovation proposal was before town officials.^[2]

[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.^[3]
• 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, "No givebacks: Group rejects war memorial for school", The Advocate of Stamford, September 28, 2006, page A3; article from Greenwich Time daily newspaper
2. ^ ^{a b} McCormack, Patricia, "Town Looks at 3.48% Take Hike; $$$ Slotted for Glenville School: Town Administrator Gomeau to Leave Post June 15", article in The Greenwich Citizen, March 23, 2007
3. ^ Hagey, Keach, "Hebrew Academy opens on new campus", The Advocate of Stamford, September 13, 2006, page A3

[edit] External links

• Greenwich Public Schools