Wooster School

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox school Wooster School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory school (grades 5 through 12) in Danbury, Connecticut. It is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools.

Overview

The Wooster School motto is Ex Quoque Potestate, Cuique Pro Necessitate, roughly, "From each according to ability, to each according to need". Founded in 1926 as a boys' school of 10 students by Episcopal priest Dr. Aaron Coburn,<ref name="Coburn">Template:Cite magazine</ref> it is named for General David Wooster, who fought at the Battle of Ridgefield with the Patriots in the American Revolution.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The school continues the legacy of the jobs program, in which the entire student body engages in a daily period dedicated to cleaning and physically maintaining the campus.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>

Girls were first admitted to the school in the fall of 1970. In 1990, Wooster School transitioned from being a boarding school, as it had been since its inception, to being a day school.<ref name=":0" />

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The Wooster School Barn at the campus entrance

21st-century changes

Since 2000, one of the National Association of Episcopal Schools' top two educator awards is named for former Wooster School head John D. Verdery.<ref>Daphne Mack, Episcopal educators gathered in Hollywood for biennial conference: Peter Cheney roasted and three educators honored, Episcopal News Service, November 28, 2006, found at Episcopal Church, USA, Official web site. Retrieved October 22, 2007.</ref><ref>National Association of Episcopal Schools, Awards, found at NAES official web site. Retrieved May 9, 2018.</ref>

From 2001 to 2004, Wooster School made some improvements to its physical plant, notably the addition of a new gymnasium and a distinct Middle School building.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>The Stamford Hospital Web site. Retrieved October 22, 2007.</ref>

Tuition

Wooster offers a program of variable tuition to families unable to pay full tuition. Full tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year was as follows:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Grade 5	$33,210
Grade 6	$37,160
Grade 7	$38,670
Grade 8	$40,260
Grades 9 - 12	$43,920
The Pathways Program	$51,920
The Bridge Program	$62,130

Notable alumni

• Tracy Chapman—folk singer and guitarist<ref>Darling, Cary. "Doing it her way: Tracy Chapman goes against the grain with her reflective songs", The Orange County Register, May 25, 1990. Accessed October 19, 2007. "She was a student at Wooster High School in Danbury, Conn., with a budding taste for folk music and a flair for songwriting who corralled her courage and hit the pavement."</ref><ref>About Tracy Chapmen, official biography web site. Accessed October 22, 2007.</ref>
• Andrew Stevovich—painter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Cyrus Mehri—trial attorney<ref>FindJustice.com web site. Retrieved October 22, 2007. "His parents' educational aspirations led Mr. Mehri to the Wooster School. 'My years there had a formative influence on me,' he says. 'There probably isn't another prep school that has such a genuine commitment to diversity. Wooster really led the way in that respect. They had already integrated by the 1950s and the idea of diversity was embedded in the culture.'</ref>
• Zachary Cole Smith—singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Neil Rudenstine—president of Harvard University<ref>Catherine E. Shoichet, Rudenstine's Book Hits Shelves, June 05, 2001, Harvard Crimson. Accessed October 22, 2007. "In a 1998 speech given at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass., Rudenstine spoke of the root of his passion for reading—a meeting with a high school adviser during his first term as a scholarship student at the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut. “I don’t remember trying to articulate for myself, at the time, what this entire experience actually meant to me,” he says."</ref>

External links

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