The city of Ridgefield CT is known throughout the area for its stellar school system and education facilities; the mission statement throughout the Ridgefield Public Schools us to provide all of their students with the highest education and opportunities for personal learning and growth possible. The Ridgefield Public Schools system are comprised of one high school (including an alternative high school), two middle schools, six elementary schools and a central office that services all nine schools in the district. Ridgefield also is a leader in private school and higher learning education. It is important to find CT Houses For Sale near good schools for your children.

Below are several links and guides compiled to help you informed yourself on Ridgefield’s excellent educational benefits. Please take the time to explore all the options available to you and your children in regards to the Ridgefield learning experience.

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Ridgefield Public Schools

Ridgefield Public School District Website

Ridgefield High School

Comprehensive public four-year high school offering sequential courses in all college preparatory subjects, plus a broad range of electives in business, family and consumer science, technology education, and visual & performing arts to students in grades nine through twelve. Students must successfully complete elementary and middle school through grade eight or equivalent to enter high school. All courses of study prepare students for post-secondary education. Ridgefield High School also has Honors and Advanced Placement courses available to qualified students based on teacher and counselor recommendation. Special Education services are available. Ninety percent of 2006 graduates matriculated to four-year colleges.

View the Ridgefield High School Profile

Ridgefield Alternative High School (part of Ridgefield HS)

An alternative learning environment for students that benefit from a more intimate setting with a flexible atmosphere and extra personal attention, selective admission by application only and available to students in grades 10-12. Ridgefield Alternative High School is an academic community which serves the needs of students who otherwise would not be successful at RHS. At RAHS, we create a climate of trust and honor to enable all students to become self-directed and self-reflective learners.

Colleges have come to know our school as one from which students graduate prepared for the college experience. Our students have attended and/or have graduated from: Dartmouth, Franklin & Marshall, Fordham, Fairfield, FIT, Eugene Lang, Ursinus, Temple, Berkley School of Music, Montserrat School of Art, Endicott, Pratt Institute of Art, UMASS, UCONN, Westconn, Marlboro, Johnson & Wales, Culinary Institute of America, Simon's Rock, Manhattanville, SUNY Purchase, Penn State, Emmanuel, SUNY New Paltz, Bennington, NYU and more.

Ridgefield Middle Schools

Ridgefield has two neighborhood middle schools that provide academic and extra-curricular activities for students in grades six through eight:

East Ridge Middle School
Scotts Ridge Middle School

The Team approach is used to teach core academic subjects - English, Math, Science, Social Studies - this enables teachers to plan assignments that reinforce topics and skills across disciplines. Advanced Math and Science tracks are offered to select students based on standardized test scores, local assessments, and teacher and counselor recommendations. Broad spectrums of Special Education programs are available at the middle school level.

Ridgefield Elementary Schools

Ridgefield has six neighborhood elementary schools that provide academic and extra-curricular enrichment activities for students in kindergarten through grade five. Children must turn five on or before December 31st to enter school in the current year. Pre-school education is available at Barlow Mountain Elementary School for three and four year olds.

Barlow Mountain Elm
Branchville Elm
Farmingville Elm
Ridgebury Elm
Scotland Elm
Veterans Park

Weekly trips to the library media center enable elementary students become familiar with the abundance of print and non-print materials available to them. Instruction is provided in library skills, including online research, word processing, presentation design and other technological skills to support classroom activities and projects.

Ridgefield's elementary literacy program fosters independence and proficiency in all areas of the language arts and produces thoughtful, critical thinkers and effective communicators. Students gain literacy independence by self-selecting "just right" reading materials, choosing their own topics for writing, and learning strategies for decoding and encoding words. Students develop critical thinking skills by making connections between written works and their own experiences. Students improve communications skills by discussing and writing about their favorite authors and genres.


Ridgefield's elementary mathematics program, called Growing with Mathematics, focuses on number sense and problem solving. At all grade levels, the program provides a variety of thinking strategies to help students solve problems effectively and confidently. The program addresses standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is recognized by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.

(Information about Ridgefield Public Schools is sourced from their website: http://www.ridgefield.org)

 

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Ridgefield Private Schools

Ridgefield Academy PK-8

Originally founded in Georgetown, CT in 1975, Ridgefield Academy has been known for academic excellence and a strong commitment to character education. We are a child-centric school, blending an academic curriculum that covers the core branches of knowledge with a broad and stimulating variety of enrichment activities, all in a close-knit, supportive learning environment.

We regularly review our curriculum and programs, as well as the latest research on how children learn, to ensure that we help each student maximize his or her innate ability.
(Information sourced from http://www.ridgefieldacademy.com)

St. Mary School PK-8

Saint Mary School is a Blue Ribbon nominated school. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created to honor schools. The Blue Ribbon award is considered to be the highest honor that an American school can achieve. In 2007, the United States Department of Education ranked Saint Mary School in the top 10% of all schools, public and private, in the United States for reading and math achievement!

Saint Mary School is centrally located in the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The School is dedicated to meeting the needs of the growing student population in the Diocese of Bridgeport. The School currently draws students and families from Ridgefield, Danbury, Redding, Wilton and New York State. Ridgefield students receive free bus service.
(Information sourced from http://www.smsridgefield.org)

Saint Stephen’s Nursery School

St. Stephen’s Nursery School is located in the lower level of North Hall on the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church campus, 351 Main Street. Our students are primarily from Ridgefield, but we have also had students from the surrounding communities including South Salem, Redding and Danbury. Although some of our student are also parishioners at St. Stephen’s, the majority of students are not and represent diverse religious and cultural backgrounds.

Our program acknowledges how young children learn; through movement, sight, sound, smell, sensing, feeling, taste, and touching. To create our unique program, we have incorporated this knowledge with early childhood educational principles and fashioned our school into a traditional, play-centered nursery school.
(Information sourced from http://www.ststephens-ridgefield.org)

To view information on other nearby private schools, please visit my other area school pages.

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Ridgefield Colleges

Please visit my other area school pages for information on nearby colleges.

Danbury Schools
Redding Schools
Brookfield Schools
Weston Schools
Wilton Schools
Bethel Schools

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