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,[1] it is named for General
David Wooster, who fought at the
Battle of Ridgefield with the
Patriots in the
American Revolution.[3] 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.[4]
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.[4]
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.[7][8]
Tuition
Tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is as follows:[9]
^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.
^National Association of Episcopal Schools, Awards, found at
NAES official web site. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
^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.'
^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."