Foote School

The Foote School
The Foote School logo
Address
50 Loomis Place New Haven, Connecticut USA
Information
Type	day school
Motto	Laete cognoscam et laete docebo (Gladly will I learn and gladly teach).
Established	1916
Founder	Martha Foote
Principal	Carol Maoz
Faculty	120
Grades	K–9
Enrollment	490
Color(s)	Maroon & Grey
Mascot	Falco the Falcon
Newspaper	SPI
Yearbook	Foote Steps
Website	http://www.footeschool.org/

The Foote School is a private K–9 co-ed day school founded in 1916, located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, United States near Yale University. The school's motto is "Gladly will I learn and gladly teach." The current head of school is Carol Maoz.

The school currently has 480 students from more than 20 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 2016–2017 is $24,670 and middle school tuition is $30,100. Tuition is all-inclusive. In 2013–14, Foote awarded $1.6 million in financial aid to 21 percent of the student body.

After Foote, most students go on to attend private high schools, with about 60 percent attending as day students at schools such as Choate Rosemary Hall, Hopkins School, and Hamden Hall, and 20 percent enrolling as boarding students at schools such as Westminster School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, and Phillips Academy. About 20 percent continue their education at local public high schools, including Hamden High School, Amity Regional 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 2011 were Yale University, George Washington University, New York University, Amherst College, Harvard University, Brown University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Connecticut.