Metairie Park Country Day School
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Metairie Park Country Day School is a private, nondenominational, co-educational college preparatory school in Metairie, Louisiana, with classes in grades Pre-Kindergarten–12. The Script error: No such module "convert". campus is located in the Old Metairie section of Metairie, Louisiana.
Campus
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Until the 1950s it had a boarding facility.[1]
Academics
Country Day offers education for students in grades Pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, organized into Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. At grade 3 the option to join the Orchestra is provided and at grade 4, children can join the chorus or band. Choice of foreign languages are offered from Kindergarten to 12th grade and children in Pre-K undergo one semester of French and one semester of Spanish. From grade 9 onward there are honors options for high-performing students in regards to French and Spanish and from grade 10 onwards students are offered the choice of taking Mandarin as opposed to the two other offered languages.[2]
The school is a member of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest and the National Association of Independent Schools.
Notable alumni
- Walker Hines, former Democratic/GOP state representative, New Orleans
- E. D. Hirsch, professor and educational theorist
- Nicholas Lemann, staff writer, The New Yorker Magazine, Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at Columbia University
- Graham Patrick Martin, actor
- Robert H. Miller 1965, American surgeon and executive director of the American Board of Otolaryngology
- Henry Furlow Owsley III 1973, investment banker, CEO of Gordian Group, LLC and managing partner of Bacchus Capital Management
- Joe Pasternack, college basketball head coach at UC Santa Barbara
- Micah Pellerin, former NFL player
- Matthew Randazzo V, writer
- Peter M. Wolf, author
- Aimee Adatto Freeman, Louisiana House of Representatives, District 98
References
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