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Intellectual and moral development are inseparable in the educational process

Products and Services

* A warm, supportive, family atmosphere.
* A superbly trained, highly motivated faculty.
* An academics first policy.


School-wide recognition and positive peer reinforcement for individual achievement.
An annual program of special activities designed to promote school spirit and combine a sense of fun with learning. These include the Medieval Banquet, International Day, the Wakefield Certamen, Field Day, the Christmas and Spring plays, and school-sponsored trips abroad in summer and during school breaks.
Mastery of written and spoken language through two periods of English a day, ancient and modern language requirements, and Spanish from pre-school.
An extra period each day devoted to enrichment courses and extra-curricular activities.


* Academics
Most of Wakefield's teachers hold advanced degrees in their chosen fields and enjoy challenging their small, well-disciplined classes with the best of western civilization in the arts, mathematics, and science. As a result, Wakefield has become internationally known for its overall academic excellence and especially its language arts program.


Wakefield Country Day School offers several diplomas based on 27 to 35 credits and reflecting a variety of concentrations in science, classical studies, and the arts. The results of the program speak for themselves. For example, in language arts last year, Wakefield Country Day School seniors' verbal SAT scores averaged over 700.

About Wakefield Country Day Sch.

The motto of Wakefield Country Day School, Virtus et Sapientia, indicates our conviction that intellectual and moral development are inseparable in the educational process. The mission of Wakefield Country Day School is to develop each student's character and intellect through active involvement in a structured curriculum founded on classical principles and in an environment that encourages scholarship, diligence, self-discipline, and respect for and service to others. WCDS cultivates an ethic of individual worth, responsibility, and service rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, in order to prepare students for the moral and intellectual rigors of citizenship in a free society.


We believe that school should be a place for serious intellectual inquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth, that students achieve the most when they are challenged to excel and held to the highest academic standards. While the ultimate aim of education is individual freedom, to become truly liberated, students must first acquire the precision and self-discipline upon which learning depends. Students perform best in a disciplined, orderly environment that is adjusted to the developing needs of each child and in an atmosphere that fosters a familial sense of community, mutual respect, and responsibility. Essential to such a school are teachers who set a tone of serious intellectual inquiry, who serve as models of responsible citizenship and moral probity, who bring to the classroom enthusiasm.