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Christian Heritage School: Located in Trumbull, in the Greater Bridgeport Area in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Christian Heritage School is a K-12 independent, coeducational, interdenominational day school with an enrollment of over 500 students. We provide a college preparatory curriculum with lower, middle and high school programs, college prep SAT and ACT, honors and advanced placement courses. We welcome international students and provide ESL classes to help them better adapt to the language in school. Europe foreign language trips are also offered.
As a college-preparatory school, academic excellence is a given. To put it simply, CHS students learn the value of hard work and striving for their highest potential. Not surprisingly, our graduates matriculate to prestigious colleges and universities, including the Ivy League schools, prominent private and Christian colleges, and many excellent state universities.
Oogie Art is the World's No.1 art portfolio preparatory school based on college and art award results alone. We are located in Manhattan, NY, Boston & Lexington, MA, and Shanghai, China.
Every year, we have help students gain admission with scholarships to their 1st choice colleges and universities.
These are the results from 2018:
2 students accepted from Harvard
1 student from Stanford, MIT, Yale
3 students from Cornell
2 students from Columbia University
+ and many more from SVA, RISD, Parsons, and Pratt.
The results of this year's 2019 for Early Action and Decision:
1 student accepted to Harvard
2 students accepted to Cornell
At Oogie, students will build college prep skills and develop diverse portfolios with varying levels of experience. Our rigorous classes hone student's technical skills in a range of media, as well as develop an extraordinary body of their own frameworks because our students follow a curriculum that is specifically based on their individual needs, goals and most immediate deadlines.
Class scheduling is extremely flexible - students register by the semester or year.
1. Art Portfolio Prep Program: Gr. 7-12 & Transfer
2. Junior Program: Grade 7-8
3. Art HS or Boarding School Art Portfolio and Audition Prep Program: Gr. 7-8
4. Young Talent program: Gr.4-6
5. AP Studio Art Program: Gr. 10-12
6. Foundation Program: Gr. 7 and Up
7. Curating and Art Research Program
8. Art College Counseling Service
- Painting/Drawing
- Illustration
- Perspective Drawing & Painting
- Figure Drawing & Painting
- Advanced Drawing & Painting
- Mixed Media & Collage
- Sculpture
- Group Crits
- Film & Animation
- Fashion Design
- Business of Design
- Graphic Design
- Digital Art
- Installation Art
St Brigid School is a Catholic Pre-K-8 school located in West Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut. We offer early childhood education through our pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs. We also provide an elementary and middle school curriculum as well as an after school program. We are a Christian community committed to providing a quality education based on Catholic doctrine, values, and service. As a school we celebrate and nurture our cultural diversity.
We teach a solid core curriculum and challenge every learner thus enabling them to reach their greatest potential. Our programs stress reading & writing across all content areas and math development. This basic skills approach begins as early as pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. Each grade level curriculum builds on the previous. Study skills are taught and enhanced through all grades. The end result is a comprehensive and challenging pre - k through eighth grade approach to learning. We are accredited by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).
St. Theresa School is an accredited Catholic school for grades Pre-K through to 8th Grade, located in Trumbull, Fairfield County CT. Bridgeport, New Haven and Milford are just 10 miles or less from our school. We provide an academically challenging curriculum in which all students can learn within the framework of Catholic principles, and we recognize the dignity and uniqueness of each student.
Our students regularly score in the top 90% on the IOWA tests. Our graduates go on to attend top High Schools in the area including: St. Joseph, Lauralton Hall, Fairfield Prep, Notre Dame and Trumbull High Agriscience Program. The primary goal is the education and formation of each individual child striving for academic excellence within a faith-centered environment.
We strive to develop within each child a deep appreciation of his or her role in family life, obligation towards fellow man and good citizenship. This is achieved through worship, instruction, and example in unison with the parent, clergy, administration and faculty. We welcome all prospective students and their families to visit our school and experience our Christ centered learning environment.
All Nations Christian Academy, located in New Haven, Connecticut (80 miles from NYC), is a small private Christian elementary school that offers an accelerated learning program and evangelical Christian foundation for students in grade K - 4th grade. Our school is designed to give children an individualized, nurturing, Christian education to enable them to develop to their full potential.
In order to provide individualized instruction and ensure maximum academic progress, our maximum class size is eight students to one teacher. Our students enjoy a full program of outdoor activities including recess, gardening, and recreation on our brand new playground. We provide individualized attention in classes of 8 students each. Scholarship are offered based on income. School day is 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
The Foote School is an independent school for kindergarten through grade 9 located in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. In addition to our lower and middle school academic programs we offer after school care, vacation and summer programs. Since 1916, Foote School has cultivated an atmosphere of mutual consideration and respect through close relationships among teachers, students, and parents.
We emphasize cooperative effort, accountability for one’s actions, the value of service learning and a strong commitment to building a multicultural community. At Foote School, learning and teaching are more than the mere enjoyment of collecting and sharing facts; learning is an active experience for all members of our community.
Foote values critical thinking and the hands-on opportunity to learn by doing that is the hallmark of experiential learning. We see our students as able teachers and our adults as life-long students. Our faculty is dedicated to learning how children learn and developing age appropriate curriculum that reflects this understanding of pedagogy. We are a member of the Institute for Independent Education and the National Association of Independent Schools.
- Programs from kindergarten through grade 9
- Lower School
- Middle School
- Challenging Curriculum with literature, history, mathematics, science, technology, writing, foreign languages, library, the arts and athletics
- Technology Department
- Learning Support Program
- After School Programs
- Vacation and Summer Programs
Hopkins School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school for grades 7-12 located in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. We offer middle and high schools programs with a college prep SAT and ACT, advanced placement and honors courses. The curriculum promotes a strong foundation in the academic disciplines, a broad exposure to the liberal arts, and selective opportunities to pursue individual interests.
We challenge students to try on the perspectives and habits of mind that historians and writers, mathematicians and linguists, scientists and artists, and athletes and musicians bring to their disciplines.
Here students experience the ways that scholars from the various fields pose questions; then they pose questions of their own. They progress through increasingly empowering stages, from harvesting information to gaining knowledge, to reaching understanding and, finally, to forming convictions. Life at Hopkins is also strongly athletic, artistic, and social; it presumes a commonality of purpose and a focus on striving for excellence in everything we do. We are accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools.
- Programs from 7th through 12th grade
- Middle School
- Upper School
- College Preparatory Curriculum with the arts, English, history, classical and modern language, computer science, mathematics, technology and science
- Advanced Placement Courses
- College preparatory courses ACT and SAT
- Summer School