Mission Statement and Philosophy

Mission Statement

Our mission is to educate the whole child; thus we endeavor to nurture every heart and challenge every mind through the experience of meaningful inquiry.

Philosophy

At Country Day, we, as a community of learners, seek to develop confident and caring students with clear intellectual fortitude and a proclivity to question and explore change rather than avoid it. To that end, we believe that our graduates…

• must leave here with an academic foundation made up of core skills and a deep and meaningful reservoir of relevant knowledge.

• must have a strong sense of resiliency. We nurture and support our students, but do not shelter them from the challenges of growth and maturation.

• must have a strong sense of compassion for others and for our environment. We expect our students to be caring, contributing members to both our community and to the broader community.

• must be able to question, critique, and then, through their own creativity, provide alternative perspectives. We want our graduates to leave here confident in their abilities to solve problems, to “think out of the box.”