Whitby School is a private day-school located in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The school starts at Primary (18 months) and includes a Lower School (grades 1-4) and a Middle School (grades 5-8). The Head of School is Douglas Fainelli. The school was founded in 1958 as the first American Montessori School. Ever an innovator, Whitby has added the highly-regarded International Baccalaureate program to its existing Montessori and best practices curriculum for Primary-8th grade.
The school has 385 students and is located on a 24-acre (97,000 m2) campus in Greenwich, Connecticut.
"Montessori and International Baccalaureate schools like Whitby are examples of a more innovative and student-motivating approach to education" Tony Wagner - Founder of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard and author of The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even our Best Schools Don't Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need - And What We Can Do About It. http://greenwichblog.com/2011/04/tony-wagner-edd-spoke-on-overcoming-the-global-achievement-gap/