About: A Brief History of the School
The Foote School was founded in 1916 by Martha Babcock Foote. In its very early days, the school migrated several times, always in the shadow of East Rock, and always encouraged and often housed by devoted parents. The school settled happily into a remodeled stable at 315 St. Ronan St. in 1923. In 1958 the school moved a block northwest to the present 17.8-acre campus on Loomis Place and Highland Streets..Today the school occupies 10 modern brick buildings containing classrooms, library, science laboratories, theater, activities center, gymnasium and offices on a wooded site close to Yale University. An adjacent 5-acre parcel, Highland Heights, acquired in 1972 and developed in the spring of 1980, contains an additional full-sized playing field, Rike Field.
In the fall of 1986 classes began in the new Middle School classroom building on the corner of Highland Street and Loomis Place, and the fall of 1990 saw the opening of a new Lower School classroom building.
In the spring of 1991 the newly expanded Frank M. Perrine Library opened its doors. A new art and music facility, the “black box” Sandine Theater, and and addition to the Hosley Gymnasium were completed in fall 2001.
An additional 3.8 acre parcel of land that abuts Highland Heights was purchased in the fall of 2009. The school is putting in a regulation playing field (recycling more than 89 percent of the materials on the site on the site itself), freeing up room to build science and technology facility on part of what is now the Middle School playing field.
FOOTE TODAY
Head of School: Carol Maoz
Grades: Kindergarten through Nine
Enrollment: 470 boys and girls from New Haven and 28 surrounding communities; 35% students of color
Faculty & staff: 120 full and part-time faculty and staff; 45% have advanced degrees
Student:teacher ratio: 6:1
Motto: Laete Cognoscam et Laete Docebo
"Gladly will I learn and gladly teach."
Tuition for 2009-2010:
Kindergarten - Grade Five $18,370
Grades Six - Nine $21,370
Kindergarten - Grade Five
Grades Six - Nine
Co-curriculum
After School Program
Summer Programs
The Campus: 17 acres with 10 classroom buildings, a 47,000 volume library, science laboratories, computer labs, a black box theater, music rooms, art studios, an activities center, a gymnasium, playing fields, a butterfly garden and a wooded area for outdoor education.
Beyond Foote:
Secondary school placement 2005- 2009
College matriculations 2000 - 2009