Education in Norwalk, Connecticut

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There are an assortment of public, private, and parochial schools in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Post-secondary education

There are four post-secondary schools within the city of Norwalk:

There are also other post-secondary schools in nearby towns.

The Norwalk Hospital runs an internship program associated with the Yale School of Medicine and a nursing program associated with Norwalk Community College. [3]

Norwalk Public Schools

Norwalk Public Schools is the school district serving Norwalk, Connecticut.

It operates the following high schools:

Charter school

The Side by Side Community School is a charter school that is located in South Norwalk and serves grades pre-K through 8th. It was started in 1997, soon after Connecticut's charter school law went into effect, by a group of public educators. This regional school serves students from Norwalk as well as from surrounding towns. [4]

Parochial

The All Saints Catholic School, serves grades pre-K through 8th. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport which consolidated three previous Norwalk elementary schools (St. Thomas, St. Philips, and St. Mary's) and closed the former Central Catholic High School to open the All Saints in the former Central Catholic High building on West Rocks Road.

The Congregation Beth El on East Avenue runs the Nitzan preschool as well as the Navasky Hebrew school for part-time religious instruction of children who are enrolled full-time in other elementary schools.

Connecticut Friends School, established as a K–8 school in 1998, purchased the White Barn Theatre in the Cranbury neighborhood in northeast Norwalk in 2008. The Quaker school planned to build a new solar-powered 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2) campus on the property with occupancy expected by the fall of 2009 for grades K-8. [5] The expansion plans were abandoned in 2015, when "the Board of Directors was forced by declining enrollment to limit the size of the school to the preschool, ages 2-5". [6]

Private

Since September 2004 the Montessori Middle School for grades 5-8 has been in Norwalk and is currently at 24 Lois Street (off of Westport Avenue). It is associated with The Montessori School for elementary grades in nearby Wilton. [7]

Since September 2007 the Winston Preparatory School of New York City has operated a branch campus along West Rocks Road in Norwalk. The school specializes in students with learning differences in grades 4 through 12.

See also

Notes

Former Franklin Street School, about 1907 PostcardNorwalkCTFranklinStreetSchool1907.jpg
Former Franklin Street School, about 1907
  1. ↑ "Gibbs College to close Northeast campuses" . Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  2. ↑ "University of Phoenix - Campus Locations". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  3. ↑ Norwalk Hospital. "Hospital History" . Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  4. ↑ "Side by Side Community School - School History". Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
  5. ↑ "Connecticut Friends School; White Barn Campus Project". Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  6. ↑ "History". Friends General Conference. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  7. ↑ "About Us, The Montessori School, Wilton, CT 06897" . Retrieved 2008-05-20.

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