Rumson Country Day School
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Rumson Country Day School is a coeducational, nonsectarian private day school located on a 13.5-acre campus in Rumson, New Jersey, serving students in preschool through eighth grade. Rumson Country Day School opened on November 1, 1926, with 23 pupils.
Rumson Country Day School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
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[edit] School Population
The School has 450 students in nursery through eighth grade. In Grades N-5, students are divided into heterogeneous homerooms. In Grades 6-8, classes are departmentalized and honors sections are offered in English, math and foreign language. Rumson Country Day School has 56 full-time and 5 part-time teachers. Teachers have an average of 16 years of experience, with 11 of those years at RCDS. The school has a student/teacher ratio of 7.5:1 and average class size of 15.
[edit] Classes
The School offers a traditional curriculum of English grammar and literature, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language (French and Latin, with Spanish added in the 1960s), art, crafts, shop, music and physical education.
[edit] Sports
Interscholastic sports were started in 1946. Sports are played all year. Fall sports are soccer (boys and girls), football, and field hockey. Winter sports are basketball (boys and girls), and ice hockey: started in 2007 with one game which was won 4-0 against Princeton Day School. Spring sports are lacrosse (boys and girls), baseball, and softball. Also, in the spring there are a few track meets, golf every Monday at the Rumson Country Club, and a tennis meet. (There aren't any play-offs for football and spring sports)
2006-07 Sports Records
Fall
Football 7-0
Boys' Soccer 10-4 (1st Round of Play-offs)
Girls' Soccer 10-5 (Semi-Finals of Play-offs)
Field Hockey 10-2-2(1st Round of Play-offs)
Winter
Boys' Basketball 19-8 (2nd Round of Play-offs)
Girls' Basketball 16-7 (League Runner-Ups)
Spring
Baseball 16-6
Softball 4-2
Boys' Lacrosse 8-3
Girls' Lacrosse 9-1
2007-08 Sports Records
Fall
Football 6-1*
Boys' Soccer 3-9-1
Girls' Soccer 8-3-1 (1st Round of Play-offs)
Field Hockey 8-3-4 (1st Round of Play-offs)
Winter Boys' Basketball 19-5 (Won Championship)
Girls' Basketball 21-0 (Won Championship)
First time in history that both teames won the champinship at the same time.
Spring
[edit] Awards
For the 1998-99 school year, Rumson Country Day School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[1]
