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Theater, STEAM, arts, crafts, sports, and more! Experience summer at Foote.
Fully engaged, truly seen.
Ours is a community where childhood has integrity, where joy and wonder are prized, where students have the space and the support to grow into their most authentic selves.
Leading in their own way.
In every grade, we offer opportunities for students to gain confidence, test their limits, and define leadership on their own terms. Our students learn to advocate for themselves and others.
Plan, build, experiment, explore.
There’s a lot of learning by doing: experimenting, collaborating, revising. Students are always digging deeper, asking hard questions, looking for new challenges.
Designed for adventurous students.
Our approach to education transcends labels. We invite students to ask hard questions, dig deeper, take smart risks, and think in new directions.
Learning from our place.
On our park-like campus, in our neighborhood and our city, in communities near and far, we learn from the landscape, the natural history of a place, the people who have inhabited it, the layers of culture within it.
Flourishing within our community
The power of our school is the presence of our people: how we find joy and wonder in the process of engaging with one another, how we honor our differences and celebrate our shared values.
Inspiring Leaders
Our future is one that leads with compassion and courage, embraces diversity and discovery, and encourages students to be their authentic selves.
Mission:
Empower children to lead with courage, compassion, and purpose.
A Balanced Approach
How — and why — we balance rigor and play, structure and freedom, expectation and joy.
Vision:
Inspire the next generation to change the world.
Values:
Ideas we live by: discovery, authenticity, and community.
News & Announcements
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Much like the tale of renewal in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, Foote’s Community Garden has seen full flower, ruin, and lately, resurrection.
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Building on the success of our Middle School athletics, this new after-school program offers sports instruction and skill-building for students in grades 3–5. Falcons Rising offers instruction in lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee, rock-climbing, baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, and soccer — sports that become competitive options when the students reach Middle School.
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Get the inside scoop on the Community Garden, catch up with alumni, and more!
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Greetings from Beijing! After a long but uneventful flight, we arrived in Beijing (which means "northern capital") early this morning.
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Twelve Foote Middle School math masters headed to the annual MathCounts Chapter Competition at Yale on Feb. 14, facing New Haven-area teams in individual and team math competitions.
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With offerings like theater, STEAM, music, games, crafts, arts, and so much more, our NEW dynamic summer programs inspire creativity, foster learning, and build lasting memories. Summer at Foote is a chance to discover hidden talents, take on new challenges, and just be a kid.
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