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.

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[edit] Public schools

Greenwich has an award-winning public school system. According to national and state tests, the public schools are actually better than the private schools; Greenwich citizens often say that parents in town only send their children to private school to "show off their cash."

[edit] Public elementary schools

Greenwich has eleven public elementary schools (Grade K-5) including three magnet schools. Number of students (from school district Web site) can change and should be considered approximate:

Cos Cob * (393 students) 300 East Putnam Ave., Cos Cob 06807 Kimberly Beck, Principal 203-869-4670

Glenville * (345 students) 33 Riversville Rd., Greenwich 06831 Marc D'Amico, Principal 203-531-9287

The International School at Dundee * + (371 students) 55 Florence Rd., Riverside 06878 Teresa Ricci, Principal 203-637-3800

Julian Curtiss + (326 students) 180 East Elm St., Greenwich 06830 Nancy Carbone, Principal 203-869-1896

New Lebanon * (212 students) 25 Mead Ave., Greenwich 06830 Gene Nyitray, Principal 203-531-9139

North Mianus * (454 students) 309 Palmer Hill Rd., Riverside 06878 Bonnie Butera, Principal 203-637-9730

North Street * (485 students) 381 North St., Greenwich 06830 Betty Burfeind, Principal 203-869-6756

Old Greenwich (413 students) 285 Sound Beach Ave., O.G. 06870 Patricia Raneri, Principal 203-637-0150

Parkway * (330 students) 141 Lower Cross Rd., Greenwich 06831 Paula Bleakley, Principal 203-869-7466

Renaissance School at Hamilton Ave * + (317 students)., Damaris Rau, Principal 203-869-1685

Riverside (497 students) 90 Hendrie Ave., Riverside 06878 John Grasso, Principal 203-637-1440


Official student enrollment numbers are reported annually on or about October 1st of each year. Hamilton Avenue students are currently dispersed to other elementary schools while their building is constructed. They are expected to be able to return to their original location on Hamilton Avenue by the 2008-2009 schoolyear. The current relocations are as follows:

Pre-Kindergarten: North Street and Old Greenwich

Kindergarten: Glenville

1st Grade: Parkway

2nd and 3rd Grades: Cos Cob

4th and 5th Grades: Western Middle School

  • These schools are fully accessible to individuals with mobility impairments.

+ These are magent schools

[edit] Public middle schools

  • Central Middle School — 713 students Grades 6-8. Mascot is the cougar.
  • Eastern Middle School — 726 students Grades 6-8. Mascot is the gator. Steve Young graduated here and also played for the football team.
  • Western Middle School — 530 students Grades 6-8. Mascot is the wildcat.

[edit] Public high school

[edit] Private schools

  • Brunswick School A non-sectarian boys' school (K-12)
  • Convent of the Sacred Heart A girls' school with Catholic affiliation (preK-12)
  • Daycroft School (preK-12) (Closed) (Former Rosemary Hall campus)
  • Eagle Hill School (K-10)
  • Greenwich Academy A non-sectarian girls' school (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 160 at the start of the 2007-2008 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. In 2006 the school started the PALs program for children with learning disibilities.[1]
  • Whitby School A Montessori 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. Medical students from Yale University work at Greenwich Hospital as interns.

[edit] Connecticut


[edit] New York state

[edit] Notes

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

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