Academics
Learning & Curriculum
The Country Day curriculum focuses on critical thinking through academic disciplines. The sciences explore nature from the tiniest particle to the infinite universe, and mathematics is expressed as the language of nature. The humanities and social sciences engage the question of how we should live, and our students interpret the world around them through the visual and performing arts.
Academic excellence permeates the Pre-K through Grade 12 experience in a style unique to Country Day with its emphasis on:
Academic excellence permeates the Pre-K through Grade 12 experience in a style unique to Country Day with its emphasis on:
- Individual achievement
- Cooperative learning
- Experiential learning
- Integration of subjects
- Sequenced development of independence in learning
- Varied teaching methods
- Learning applied in service to others
- Expansive use of educational technology
- Encouragement of individual expression and creativity
- Challenge at all levels
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Department of Applied Technology
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Lower School
Active discovery and a careful cultivation of wonder about the world sets the foundation for Country Day's Lower School students love of learning. The Lower School is designed in multi-age classrooms, allowing teachers to create student groups according to interests, learning styles, and strengths. -
Middle School
Rigor at Country Day is characterized by the pursuit of ideas. This active pursuit continues in the Middle School with a curriculum that insists on mastery of essential content and skills in the context of solving challenging problems and addressing provocative questions. An equally important part of the middle school experience is service learning, which heightens students' awareness of the needs of others. -
Upper School
Vigorous, intellectual exploration expands in the Upper School as students are guided to hone their skills in making connections in a wider world. An expanded global outlook challenges students to be aware of and to understand other cultures in a deeply meaningful way as part of the School's mission to develop the habit of ethical thinking and moral behavior.
300 Park Road, Metairie, LA 70005 (504) 837-5204
Established in 1929, Metairie Park Country Day School is a coed private school for New Orleans area students in early childhood through Grade 12. From the elementary grades through upper school, the care and cultivation of each child comes to life in our exciting academic program, creative arts, and competitive athletic offerings.
Country Day accepts qualified students without regard to race, color, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national or ethnic origin.
