Foote School

The Foote School
Motto Laete cognoscam et laete docebo (Gladly will I learn and gladly teach).
Established 1916
Type day school
Faculty 120
Students 490
Grades K–9
Location 50 Loomis Place,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Colors Maroon & Grey
Mascot Falco the Falcon
Yearbook Foote Steps
Website http://www.footeschool.org/

The Foote School is a private K–9 co-ed day school founded in 1916, located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, United States near Yale University.

Student body and faculty

The school currently has 490 students from 30 surrounding cities and towns. There are 120 faculty and staff members, making up a 6:1 student-to-teacher-ratio. The school has two divisions—the lower school, with grades kindergarten–5 and middle school with grades 6–9. Lower school tuition for 2014–2015 is $22,150 and middle school tuition is $26,050. Tuition is all-inclusive. In 2013–14, Foote awarded $1.6 million in financial aid to 21 percent of the student body.

After Foote, most students go on to attend private high schools, with about 60 percent attending as day students at schools such as Choate Rosemary Hall, Hopkins School, and Hamden Hall, and 20 percent enrolling as boarding students at schools such as Westminster School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, and Phillips Academy. About 20 percent continue their education at local public high schools, including Hamden High School, Amity Regional High School and Wilbur Cross High School.[1] According to data maintained by the school, the universities and colleges enrolling the largest numbers of Foote alumni as freshman between 2000 and 2011 were Yale University, George Washington University, New York University, Amherst College, Harvard University, Brown University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Connecticut.[2]

Campus

The campus covers 17.3 acres (70,000 m2) and has 11 buildings, including a new science and technology building, a 47,000-volume library, a black-box theater, a gymnasium, music rooms, computer and science labs, three playing fields, two art studios, an activities center, and a tree-filled area for outdoor activities. The campus is split into two sections, one for the lower and one for middle school, with the main building, known as the Common Unit, located between them. This contains the library, music rooms, the art studios, offices, the front desk, and classrooms. The Foote School integrates technology across the curriculum and also several dedicated computer labs.

Alumnae and alumni

Foote graduates have distinguished themselves in a variety of areas from education to science to the arts to public service.

References

  1. ↑ http://footeschool.org/Portals/0/Edocs/Middle%20School%20Docs/SecSchl1314.pdf
  2. ↑ http://footeschool.org/Portals/0/Edocs/Middle%20School%20Docs/College1314.pdf

External links

Coordinates: 41°19′37″N 72°55′11″W / 41.327°N 72.9196°W