Founded in 1961, The Independent Day School is located on 35 acres of countryside next to Laurel Brook Reservoir in Middlefield, CT. We are a coeducational, nonsectarian elementary school of 200 students from Beginners through grade eight.

More than 45 years ago, citizens from the surrounding towns of Meriden, Middletown, and Wallingford met to share their ideas about education. In this area there already existed a university of national renown, and a first-rate independent secondary school.

The question remained: should there not be an elementary school of equal excellence, if not comparable national recognition?

In January 1960, a corporation was formed and a Board of Trustees appointed to found a school that would “emphasize basic scholarly disciplines” and furnish “that high quality of instruction which is essential to the full development of the child's ability and to provide a strong foundation for later work.”

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