Foote School
Encyclopedia
The Foote School is a private K-9 co-ed day school founded in 1916, located in the East Rock
neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut
, United States
near Yale University
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After Foote most students go on to attend private high schools, with about 60% attending as day students at schools such as Choate Rosemary Hall
, Hopkins School
, and Hamden Hall, and 20% attending boarding schools such as Westminster School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School
, and Phillips Academy
. About 20% continue their education at local public high schools, including Hamden High School
and Wilbur Cross High School. According to data maintained by the school, the universities and colleges enrolling the largest numbers of Foote alumni as freshman between 2000 and 2009 were Yale University
, George Washington University
, New York University
, Harvard University
, Brown University
, Cornell University
, and the University of Connecticut
.
The Foote School integrates technology across the curriculum and also several dedicated computer labs. A new science and technology building is being built.
or Spanish
, social studies, art, computer, drama, music, and gym]]. They do not have homework until the third grade. In the fourth grade, students move to the middle school building and get to choose whether to continue their studies in either French or Spanish, which they will study for the rest of the time they are at the school.
The middle school curriculum consists of humanities, which is studied until seventh grade and then split into two classes history and English language, math, which becomes pre-algebra
in seventh grade, then algebra in eighth and geometry in ninth. Students also take science, which becomes an IPS
course in eighth grade and biology in ninth, French or Spanish, Latin, starting in grade seven, music, which becomes instrumental elective in seventh grade, in which students can choose to do African drumming, guitar, or handbells, art, gym, and drama. In sixth grade, students also have library and computer classes.
Hanna Holborn Gray
'43 President Emeritus, University of Chicago
. Former Provost of Yale University.
Ted Sizer
'45 Director of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Former Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Guido Calabresi '46 Judge, Second Circuit Court. Former Dean of the Yale Law School
.
Bertil Hille
'54 Biologist.
Ursula Goodenough
'56 Cell biologist.
Chase Twichell
'64 Poet and publisher.
Brooks Kerr
'66 Jazz pianist.
Gerry Hemingway
'69 Jazz composer and percussionist.
Marcus Stern
'75 Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater.
Marcus Giamatti
'77 Actor and musician.
Ben Allison
'82 Jazz musician and composer. Winner of the 2005 Bird Award.
Paul Giamatti
'82 Golden Globe-winning actor.
Jay Lender
'84 Animator. Writer for the original animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
.
Nathan Tyler
'84 President of Global Communications at Google
.
Tom King '84 President of Atomic Amps Atomic Amps He is the creator of the world's first products that allow musicians using digital technology to experience full-range flat-response sound in format that looks and feels like a traditional guitar amp.
Bun Lai '85, National leader in sustainable sushi movement and owner/chef of Miya's Sushi
, New Haven
Ted Lai '87 Director - Equity Derivatives - Structured Equity Products at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Capital Markets
.
Elisha Cooper
'86 Writer and illustrator, children's literature.
Michael Crowley
'87 Deputy Washington bureau chief, Time (magazine)
Huckleberry Fox '89 Actor of Academy Award winning movie Terms of Endearment
Ben Berkowitz '95 Co-founder and president of SeeClickFix
Caitlin Cahow
'00 Member of the US Women's Ice Hockey Team that earned a Bronze Medal at the 2006 Olympics and a Silver Medal at the 2010 Olympics.
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld '11 Daughter of Amy Chua
and subject of her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
.
East Rock (neighborhood)
East Rock is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, named for nearby East Rock, a prominent trap rock ridge. The area is home to a large group of Yale students, staff, and faculty, as well as many young professionals and families. The neighborhood is divided between New Haven's...
neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
near Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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History
The school was founded in 1916 by Martha Babcock Foote and was located in a former stable on St. Ronan St. In 1958, the school moved to its current location at 50 Loomis Place. In 1972, the school purchased Highland Heights, across the street from the main campus, which it developed eight years later as an additional sports field. In 1986, a new middle school building was dedicated, followed by a lower school building in 1990. One year later, the expanded Frank M. Perrine Library was opened. The library currently has a collection exceeding 47,000 books, with a circulation exceeding 1,200 books per week. The newest additions came in 2001 with the creation of a new black box theater, named for long-time drama teacher Robert Sandine, and an addition to the Hosley Gymnasium. The school recently purchased 3.8 acres (15,378.1 m²) of land adjacent to Highland Heights and is in the process of creating a regulation playing field on the property. They have also added a community garden so the students can enjoy the values of nature. More than 95 percent of the demolished materials were recycled on the site. The land on which the current playing field sits will be partially used for a new science and technology building, to be named for late alumnus Jon Milikowsky, Class of 1998. Design is in progress, and groundbreaking is anticipated in spring of 2011. This is not likely to happen though, they are not on schedule due to the time they have to spend passing the balls back over the fence to the children playing four square.Student body and faculty
The school currently has 470 students from 28 surrounding cities and towns. There are 120 faculty and staff members, making up a 6:1 student-to-teacher-ratio. The school has two divisions - the lower school, with grades kindergarten-5 and middle school with grades 6-9. Lower school tuition for 2010-2011 is $19,020 and middle school tuition is $22,120. Tuition is all-inclusive.----
After Foote most students go on to attend private high schools, with about 60% attending as day students at schools such as Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut...
, Hopkins School
Hopkins School
The Hopkins School is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational day school, located in New Haven, Connecticut....
, and Hamden Hall, and 20% attending boarding schools such as Westminster School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School
Hotchkiss School
The Hotchkiss School is an independent, coeducational American college preparatory boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, the school enrolls students in grades 9 through 12 and a small number of postgraduates...
, and Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...
. About 20% continue their education at local public high schools, including Hamden High School
Hamden High School
Hamden High School is a four year high school for grades 9 through 12. It is located at 2040 Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut. It is part of the Hamden Public School System and is the only public high school within the town of Hamden....
and Wilbur Cross High School. According to data maintained by the school, the universities and colleges enrolling the largest numbers of Foote alumni as freshman between 2000 and 2009 were Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, and the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
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Campus
The campus covers 17.3 acres (70,010.7 m²) and has 10 buildings, including a 47,000-volume library, a theater, a gymnasium, music rooms, computer and science labs, three playing fields, two art studios, an activities center, and a tree-filled area for outdoor activities. The campus is split into two sections, one for the lower and one for middle school, with the main building, known as the Common Unit, located between them. This contains the library, music rooms, the art studios, offices, the front desk, and classrooms.The Foote School integrates technology across the curriculum and also several dedicated computer labs. A new science and technology building is being built.
Curriculum
The lower school curriculum is made up of language arts, mathematics, science], FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
or Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, social studies, art, computer, drama, music, and gym]]. They do not have homework until the third grade. In the fourth grade, students move to the middle school building and get to choose whether to continue their studies in either French or Spanish, which they will study for the rest of the time they are at the school.
The middle school curriculum consists of humanities, which is studied until seventh grade and then split into two classes history and English language, math, which becomes pre-algebra
Pre-algebra
Pre-Algebra is a common name for a course in middle school mathematics. In the United States, it is generally taught between the fifth and eighth grades, although it may be necessary to take this course as early as sixth grade in order to advance to Calculus BC by twelfth grade...
in seventh grade, then algebra in eighth and geometry in ninth. Students also take science, which becomes an IPS
IPS
- Medicine and biology :* Induced pluripotent stem cell* Intermittent photic stimulation, a neuroimaging technique* Intraparietal sulcus, a region of the brain* Ips , a genus of bark beetle- Media and entertainment :...
course in eighth grade and biology in ninth, French or Spanish, Latin, starting in grade seven, music, which becomes instrumental elective in seventh grade, in which students can choose to do African drumming, guitar, or handbells, art, gym, and drama. In sixth grade, students also have library and computer classes.
Classes and Schedule
Classes at Foote are usually small, with about fifteen students per class and three classes in each grade. Grades one and two are combined into one grade called MAG with equal numbers of first and second graders in each class. In the ninth grade, the classes tend to get smaller, as many students choose to attend a school other than Foote for high school. In the middle school there is an advisory system, in which students meet with an advisor once a week during lunch. School starts at 8:10 and ends at 3:00, although on Fridays, lower school students up to grade three get out at 12:30 and grades four-nine get out at 2:15. For middle schoolers, there is a short homeroom period until 8:30 every day. Then there are two classes, a snack recess of fifteen minutes, two more classes, a flex time for lunch and recess, two more classes, and a study hall until 3:00. Classes last forty-five minutes. The school uses a six-day A-F day schedule, so as to be able to spread out the classes. There are all-school assemblies in the gym every Monday from 8:10 to 8:30.Activities
Middle school students can join activities, such as Student Council, Community Service , Spi (the school newspaper), Environmental Action Group(EAG), Foote Steps (the school yearbook), Footenotes (the school literary magazine), Amnesty International, the Jazz/Rock Ensamble, Out loud, and others. The heads of these activities are usually ninth graders and at least one or two teachers help out. The activities take place during Flex Time or Study Hall.Sports
Students in grades seven through nine can participate in sports teams that play other teams in the area. During the fall, there is a boys soccer team, girls soccer team, and field hockey team. During the winter, there is a boys basketball team, girls basketball team, and swim team, which is also open to sixth graders. During the spring, there is a boys baseball team, girls softball team, boys lacrosse team, girls lacrosse team, and tennis team.Alumnae and alumni
Foote graduates have distinguished themselves in a variety of areas from education to science to the arts to public service.Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray , is a historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago.-Biography:...
'43 President Emeritus, University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. Former Provost of Yale University.
Ted Sizer
Ted Sizer
Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools...
'45 Director of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Former Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Guido Calabresi '46 Judge, Second Circuit Court. Former Dean of the Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
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Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. He is particularly well known for his research and expertise on cell signalling by ion channels.-Early life and education:...
'54 Biologist.
Ursula Goodenough
Ursula Goodenough
Ursula W. Goodenough is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the best selling book Sacred Depths of Nature...
'56 Cell biologist.
Chase Twichell
Chase Twichell
Chase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....
'64 Poet and publisher.
Brooks Kerr
Brooks Kerr
Brooks Kerr is an American jazz pianist born in New Haven, Connecticut, perhaps best-known for being bandleader of a small group featuring Sonny Greer and Russell Procope and for his knowledge of Duke Ellington's work, which he often performs.Kerr was a student of Willie "The Lion" Smith...
'66 Jazz pianist.
Gerry Hemingway
Gerry Hemingway
Gerry Hemingway is an American jazz composer and percussionist.He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don...
'69 Jazz composer and percussionist.
Marcus Stern
Marcus Stern
Marcus Stern is the Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater as well as the A.R.T./MXAT's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Stern lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has directed numerous productions for the A.R.T...
'75 Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater.
Marcus Giamatti
Marcus Giamatti
Marcus Giamatti is an American actor, best known for being a regular member of the cast of the CBS drama series Judging Amy.-Background:...
'77 Actor and musician.
Ben Allison
Ben Allison
Ben Allison is an American jazz double bassist and composer born in New Haven, Connecticut.His groups include The Ben Allison Band, Peace Pipe, the Ben Allison Quartet, Medicine Wheel, the Kush Trio, Man Size Safe, and the Herbie Nichols Project...
'82 Jazz musician and composer. Winner of the 2005 Bird Award.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several projects in the...
'82 Golden Globe-winning actor.
Jay Lender
Jay Lender
Jay Lender is a writer and director on the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants. The episodes he made include:* Graveyard Shift* Hall Monitor* Rock-A-Bye Bivalve* Big Pink Loser* Neptune's Spatula* Pressure...
'84 Animator. Writer for the original animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
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Nathan Tyler
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
'84 President of Global Communications at Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
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Tom King '84 President of Atomic Amps Atomic Amps He is the creator of the world's first products that allow musicians using digital technology to experience full-range flat-response sound in format that looks and feels like a traditional guitar amp.
Bun Lai '85, National leader in sustainable sushi movement and owner/chef of Miya's Sushi
Miya's
Miya's Sushi is a sushi restaurant located in the Chapel West neighborhood of downtown New Haven, Connecticut in the United States.-History:...
, New Haven
Ted Lai '87 Director - Equity Derivatives - Structured Equity Products at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Capital Markets
SunTrust Banks
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Elisha Cooper
Elisha Cooper
Elisha Cooper is an American writer and children's book author. Cooper went to Foote School and Hopkins School in Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, he worked for The New Yorker as a messenger....
'86 Writer and illustrator, children's literature.
Michael Crowley
Michael Crowley
Michael Crowley is a senior correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief for . From 2000 to 2010 he was a writer for The New Republic. His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, New York and Slate. Michael Crichton allegedly based a minor character on him in his...
'87 Deputy Washington bureau chief, Time (magazine)
Time (magazine)
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Huckleberry Fox '89 Actor of Academy Award winning movie Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment
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Ben Berkowitz '95 Co-founder and president of SeeClickFix
SeeClickFix
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Caitlin Cahow
Caitlin Cahow
Caitlin Cahow is an American ice hockey player. She attended the Foote School, where she graduated in 2000 and then attended the Hotchkiss School where she graduated in 2003 after playing soccer, field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse...
'00 Member of the US Women's Ice Hockey Team that earned a Bronze Medal at the 2006 Olympics and a Silver Medal at the 2010 Olympics.
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld '11 Daughter of Amy Chua
Amy Chua
Amy L. Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton...
and subject of her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a book by Amy Chua published in 2011. The complete subtitle of the book is: “This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones...
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