GENERAL INFORMATION

Date Founded: 1926 by Rev. Dr. Aaron C. Coburn

Headmaster: Timothy B. Golding

Director of Admissions: Grant L. Jacks, III (Tad)

Religious Affiliation: Episcopalian heritage, although Wooster serves students from many faiths and religious traditions.

Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges: http://www.neasc.org/ 

Memberships:

• National Association of Independent Schools: http://www.nais.org/
• National Association of Episcopal Schools: http://www.naes.org/
• Connecticut Association of Independent schools: http://www.caisct.org/
• Cum Laude Society: http://www.cumlaudesociety.org/

Size of Campus: 127 acres

Number of Buildings: 15 

Enrollment: 354 boys and girls in grades Pre-K -12

• Lower (PK-5): 104
• Middle(6-8): 105
• Upper (9-12):145

CT towns represented:

Bethel, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Danbury, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, New Canaan, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Norwalk, Oxford, Redding, Ridgefield, Sandy Hook, Sherman, Southbury, Southport, Stamford, Stratford, Waterbury, West Redding, Weston, Westport, Wilton 

NY towns represented:

Bedford, Brewster, Carmel, Golden's Bridge, Granite Springs, Holmes, Hopewell Junction, Katonah, Mahopac, North Salem, Patterson, Pawling, Pleasantville, Pound Ridge, Somers, South Salem, Waccabuc, Yorktown Heights

FACULTY INFORMATION

Number of full time faculty: 78

Number of full time faculty with advanced degrees: (50%)

• Master's Degrees: 37
• PhD's: 2

In Lower School (Pre-K to Grade 5), the individual class size ranges from 8-17 with the most frequent number being 12 students per class.

In Middle and Upper School, a faculty member  typically teaches 4-5 sections per day and the class size ranges from 3-16 students.

 TUITION AND FEES AND FINANCIAL AID  INFORMATION

• 97 students received some form of need-based financial aid for the 2009-10 academic year.
• Over $1.7 million dollars was awarded to qualified applicants
• The average Financial Aid award for the 2009-10 school year was $17,773
• Tuition and Fees Page

COLLEGE GUIDANCE INFORMATION

100% of students are accepted to four year colleges and universities.

Members of the class of 2008 received 134 acceptances and have chosen to enroll at 30 different institutions:

Bard; Boston College; Brown University; University of Chicago; University of Connecticut; Eckerd  College; Elizabethtown College; Elon University; Florida Southern College; Gordon College; Greensboro College; University of Hartford; Hendrix College; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Indiana University at Bloomington; Lehigh University; Lynchburg College; Macalester College; Marietta College; University of New England; Providence College; Purdue University; Quinnipiac University; Roanoke College; Ross-Hulman Institute of Technology; Stony Brook University; Suffolk University; Swarthmore College; Tufts University; Tulane University; Ursinus College; University of Vermont; Washington College; Winthrop University; Worcester Polytechnic University.

Members of the class of 2007 were accepted at the following colleges and universities:

Adelphi; American; Amherst; Auburn; Bard; Bennington; Binghamton; Boston College; Boston University; Bryn Mawr; California College of the Arts; Cambridge University; Carnegie-Mellon; Champlain; Clark; Clarkson; Colgate; Collegeof New Jersey; Connecticut College; DeSales; Dickinson; Drew; Drexel; Duke; Elmira; Emory; Fairfield; Franklin and Marshall; Franklin Pierce; Georgetown; Gordon; Goucher; Guilford; Hamilton; Hartwick; Hobart and William Smith; Ithaca; Johns Hopkins; Johnson & Wales; King’s College London; LaSalle; Lasell; Maine College of Art; Manhattanville; Merrimack; Mount Holyoke; Muhlenberg; New England College; New York University; Pace; Pratt; Purdue; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Rochester Institute of Technology; Roger Williams; Rowan; School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Skidmore; Simmons; St. Olaf’s; Southern Methodist; Stony Brook; SUNY Morrisville; Trinity College; Union; University of Chicago; University of Connecticut; University of Edinburgh; University of Evansville; University of Hartford; University of Maryland; University of Mary Washington; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; University of New Haven; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; University of Redlands; University of Rhode Island; University of St. Andrews (Scotland); University of Vermont; University of Virginia; University of Warwick; Villanova; Virginia Commonwealth; Virginia Union; Wake Forest; Western Connecticut State; Western New England; Wheaton; Williams; Worcester Polytechnic Institute.