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Chase Collegiate School 
Location Waterbury, Connecticut, USA Information Type Independent, Day Established 1865 Head of school John D. Fixx Faculty 67 Enrollment Approximately 440 Average class size 15 students Campus Suburban, 47 acres (190,000 m2) Color(s) Green and White Athletics 12 sports Mascot Highlander Website www.chasecollegiate.org Chase Collegiate School is a private, coeducational day school for children in grades pre-kindergarten through 12. The 47-acre (190,000 m2) campus in Waterbury, Connecticut, has 8 academic and administrative buildings, 9 athletic fields and eight tennis courts. The school has 64 faculty members—48 of whom hold advanced degrees—and approximately 450 students from 50 different towns.
Chase Collegiate was founded in 1865 as the Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, which later changed its name to St. Margaret's School for Girls. The McTernan School for Boys was founded in 1912. In 1972, these two distinguished institutions merged, becoming St. Margaret's-McTernan, a non-religious, coeducational day school with a shared tradition of nurturing academic achievement and personal growth.
In 2005, St. Margaret's-McTernan changed its name to Chase Collegiate School. The new name honors the Chase family, which helped to found both St. Margaret's and McTernan, and preserves the original name by which the school was known.
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Curriculum
There three divisions at Chase share in the mission of educating leaders who are passionate lifelong learners, personal achievers, and community contributors.
The Upper School focuses on writing, critical thinking, effective classroom discussion, research, and problem solving across disciplines and departments. Distribution requirements in English, math, science, history, and foreign language are complemented by a diverse choice of electives, particularly in the junior and senior years. Students are offered 19 Advanced Placement college credit courses, advanced tutorials, and independent study projects. Public speaking is an important part of the curriculum starting in the Lower School. In the Upper School, each senior delivers a Senior Speech as part of the graduation requirements.
The Middle School academic program incorporates independent thinking with organizing, synthesizing, and integrating information. Students take a core curriculum of math, English, history, science and world language. Developing leadership skills is an important aspect of the Middle School curriculum at Chase. Students are involved in activities such as as Student Council, community service, theater, and outdoor experiential learning programs.
The Lower School combines an interactive academic program with a social curriculum known as The Responsive Classroom®. This curriculum enables children from three years of age through grade five to share the values of honesty, fairness, and respect, and to learn the skills of cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. The academic program places emphasis on literacy skills, as well as on both the process and product of mathematical thinking. With a multi-sensory approach, children learn many ways to solve problems.
Statistical Profile
The average class size is 11 in Upper School; 15 in Middle School; and 13 in Lower School. Enrollment is 451 students, with 186 Upper School students, 102 Middle School students, and 163 Lower School students. There are 64 faculty members, 48 of whom hold advanced degrees (Masters and Doctorates). The average teaching tenure is eleven years.
Athletics
Chase has 42 interscholastic teams and 13 different sports. The school competes in the Houstanic Valley League (HVAL) and Connecticut Independent School Athletic Conference (CISAC). Upper School students are required to participate in sports at least two seasons per year. Fitness training and independent study options (such as ice hockey, horseback riding, and dance lessons) may also fulfill the sports requirement. Sixty percent of Middle School students play at least one sport per year.
Interscholastic sports
Fall
- Boys Soccer
- Girls Soccer
- Boys Cross Country
- Girls Cross Country
- Girls Volleyball
- Crew
Winter
Spring
- Baseball
- Softball
- Boys Tennis
- Girls Tennis
- Boys Golf
- Girls Golf
- Boys Crew
- Girls Crew
- Boys Lacrosse
- Girls Lacrosse
- Ultimate Frisbee
Notable alumni
- Michaela Petit, victim of the Cheshire, Connecticut home invasion murders attended the school.[1]
Politics
- Porter Goss, former Florida Congressman and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Media
- Grant Goodeve, actor
- Gene Tierney, Academy Award Nominated Actress
References
- ^ "School Head Runs 'Miles for Michaela'." Good Morning America. November 5, 2007. Retrieved on November 9, 2010.
External links
Categories:- Waterbury, Connecticut
- Schools in New Haven County, Connecticut
- Elementary schools in Connecticut
- Middle schools in Connecticut
- Private high schools in Connecticut
- Preparatory schools in Connecticut
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