Ours is a culture rich in tradition, offering expanded educational opportunities for young people for more than eighty-two years. At Country Day, we understand that children learn best in an environment that is both academically demanding and appropriately supportive, so we have carefully created a rigorous academic program in the context of a committed and caring community. We encourage independence, foster critical thinking, and train our students to open their minds to limitless possibilities.
If you have caught a glimpse of the special character of Metairie Park Country Day School from viewing our Website, imagine how much you will see when you come to our campus. We welcome your interest in our school as we strive to prepare graduates who greet the world with greater knowledge, curiosity, excitement, humor and energy because of their time here with us.
Cordially,
Carolyn Chandler
Head of School
OUR MISSION
Country Day was
founded in 1929 by a group of families who wanted an alternative to the
traditional public, private and parochial schooling available in the New
Orleans area. We are grateful to our founders, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Benjamin, Mrs. Ralph Boothby, Mrs. Russell Clark, Mrs. Thomas Denegre,
Mr. Stuart Landry, Mr. Thomas Nichols, Mrs. Dorothy Pigman, Mrs. Fort
Pipes, Mrs. John Pratt, Mrs. James W. Reily, Mrs. and Mrs. Edgar B.
Stern, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Trautman, Mrs. C.S. Williams, Mrs. Robert M.
Walmsley, Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Dantzler, and Mrs. Eli Watson.
Great-grandchildren of many of these families attend our School today.
The Stern family - also credited with the founding or advancement of
Newcomb Nursery School and Dillard University - was instrumental in
luring the founding head, Ralph Boothby from Hudson, Ohio, where he had
briefly headed a school and begun to apply (as he had as head of the
Department of Education at Antioch College) the progressive principles
that were to be a hallmark of his new school.Thanks and Welcome
