Our Private Independent Lower School
18 Months - Grade 4
Children enter the world naturally eager to learn. At Country Day’s Lower School, our talented faculty maximizes children’s propensity to learn during their highly formative years by ensuring that each student is known, nurtured, and inspired. In warm and welcoming classrooms, students learn by doing—the most effective and lasting type of learning. Our youngest scholars are introduced to academics in a joyful way, which optimizes learning and fosters students who are engaged, curious, and excited about tackling new ideas and concepts. Lower School also values partnering with parents to ensure that each child’s needs are uniquely met. Working in tandem increases students’ confidence, social, emotional, and academic growth. Our youngest learners leave the lower school as active thinkers and doers, eager to continue their learning journeys.
Our play-based learning programs allow students to experiment, negotiate, create meaning, take risks, hone skills, follow instructions, build relationships, and feel good about themselves in a safe, supporting, and fun setting. These opportunities are designed specifically for non-enrolled students ranging in age from 10 to 36 months and for our enrolled and pre-primary students and families.
18 months to 3 years. Our preeminent early childhood program in Cincinnati, Ohio emphasizes the development of the whole child. Programming in our Early Childhood Center (ECC) is offered as three, four, or five-day options.
A three-year path that includes Pre-K I, Pre-K II, and Kindergarten.
The Montessori Room is a three-year program for children ages 3-6.
Increased independence, collaboration, self-exploration, self-discovery, risk taking, and more advanced reasoning/critical thinking skills are the hallmarks of our Lower School.
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Quick Facts
Grades: Early Childhood (18 months) - Grade 4
Students: 380
Faculty/Staff: 62
Primary (K-4) class size maximums: Kindergarten: 13; grades 1-2: 16; grades 3-4: 18
Pre-primary (EC/Pre-K/Montessori) student-to-faculty ratios*: 6:1 for children up to age 3; 9:1 or 10:1 for ages 3 and older
Head of Lower School: Mark Morawski
Director of Pre-Primary: Kathi Bagnoli
Contact: (513) 979-0229 lsoffice@countryday.net
* ratios based upon classroom, collaborative (assistant), and specials teachers and in accordance with state guidelines
For the Lower School Handbook and Curriculum Guide, visit the Enrolled Students page.
Admissions inquiry? Click here to complete an online inquiry. You can also request information by contacting us directly at (513) 979-0220 or admission@countryday.net.