Westchester Country Day School

Westchester Country Day School
Location
High Point, North Carolina
USA
Information
Type Country Day School
Motto "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano"
Established 1967
Head of School Cobb Atkinson
Faculty 55
Enrollment 419 (2009-2010)
Student to teacher ratio 7:1
Campus Rural, 53 acres (0.21 km2)
Mascot Wildcat
Annual tuition $13,125
Website Westchestercds.org

Westchester Country Day School, formerly called Westchester Academy, is an independent, nonsectarian school that is situated just outside High Point, North Carolina, USA.

After an interim period with Jim Cantwell in the 2009-2010 school year, Cobb Atkinson, the former Headmaster at the Valwood School, was hired as the permanent Head of School in July 2010.

Notable features

Arts & Athletics

  • sixth grade - keyboard (piano).
  • seventh grade - recorders
  • eighth grade - guitar

Men's basketball

In recent years, the Wildcats Men's Basketball team has been extremely successful, acquiring a 55-3 record over the past two seasons (.948) and won the Triad Athletic Conference Championship two years in a row. Home games regularly sell out the Finch Center, resulting in standing-room only crowds. Most games are videotaped by the professional videographers of hoopmixtape.com and oneentertainmenthoops.com, both of which are companies who videotape strong High School Basketball programs in the South. The Wildcats have been recognized by the national media, most notably ESPN's SportsCenter, twice in the past two seasons, both for acrobatic dunks during games. The first, which occurred in January 2009, was a double alley-oop, where Georg Wolff lobbed the ball to Deuce Bello, who then again lobbed it to Ike Nwamu who dunked the ball. In 2010, Deuce Bello performed a between-the-legs dunk during a game, a feat that is very rarely achieved, and was interviewed by SportsCenter's Jay Harris. Another play shown on sportscenter was a play involving Andre Iguodala and westchester graduate Quincy Miller.[1]

Facilities

There are now six buildings on the rural campus, the largest, and newest, being the Finch Center, which includes Foreign Language, a computer lab, science, and health rooms. It also includes a basketball court.

There are two gymnasiums, three basketball courts, lighted soccer and baseball fields including indoor batting cages, and a practice soccer field.

Famous alumni

See also

References

[2]

  1. "Andre Iguodala: Crossover of the Year!?!?". YouTube. 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  2. "Westchester Country Day School Profile | High Point, North Carolina (NC)". Privateschoolreview.com. Retrieved 2016-12-04.

Coordinates: 35°58′25″N 80°05′14″W / 35.9737°N 80.0873°W / 35.9737; -80.0873

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