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Creating, Developing, and Empowering Open Minds to Learn for Life

At Country Day, a student’s distinct individual spirit fuels the capacity for their independence and achievements. Here, among the open courtyards, stately buildings, and meandering walkways of our 15-acre campus, students discover the bright potential of their future. It’s not a future predetermined by traveling down a single path. Rather, it’s one where each student achieves their potential and shatters their expectations through an assembly of choices and a myriad of enriching experiences. 

With personal interests as a motivating influence, students pursue goals shaped by who they are and who they want to be as independent thinkers — from day one of Pre-K, to graduation from our Upper School, and beyond. This is the Country Day difference – a community that lives its mission, actualizes its values, and exhibits a school spirit that is second to none. Welcome to our School.

Our Mission

Metairie Park Country Day School enriches the lives of talented young people in a dynamic learning environment, building strength of intellect and strength of character within a community that is simultaneously challenging and supportive. 

Our students learn to be flexible, to be adaptable, and to face the challenges of life with honor, optimism, confidence, creativity, and a sense of humor.

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Lower school students walk towards Lower School

Our History

Metairie Park 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.

The school’s first classes assembled in the current administration building, and until the 1950s, Country Day had a small boarding department. Country Day has since evolved into an early childhood through Grade 12 institution, with an early childhood program added in 1986. 

Although the structures and neighborhoods around Country Day have changed over the decades, the prevailing openness our founders sought when they created a community within a community can still be felt, seen, and heard the moment you step foot on our campus.

Our Traditions

Since our founding, building our community has been an intentional act. Students learn and grow best when they are connected to those around them, and school-wide traditions ensure we foster relationships on campus every day – from 5th graders clearing lunch plates to seniors partnering with kindergarteners. 

Experience Country Day Traditions

"Study of the individual child, and effort to satisfy his or her needs; Freedom to develop naturally, which does not mean license to invade other people's rights; Attention to play and physical development for every child; The utilization of children's interests for educational ends; A large place for beauty in nature, in art, in music; Friendly relationship between pupils and teachers, with teachers functioning as guides rather than taskmasters; Such cooperation between school and home as will make the two, supplementing each other, provide for the whole development of the child."Ralph BoothbyFounding Head of Metairie Park Country Day School

Our Alumni are Cajuns for Life

Country Day students learn to be flexible and adaptable, facing the challenges of life with honor, optimism, confidence, creativity, and a sense of humor. In pursuit of this mission, our school has prioritized four essential outcomes for all graduates: curiosity, critical thinking, citizenship, and character.

Today, the strong bonds among Country Day alumni are almost legendary. Our school has created a family, an extension of home, and a safe place for learning, nurturing, and exploring the world in which we live.



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