Norwalk Public Schools | |
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Southwestern Connecticut Fairfield County United States |
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District information | |
Type | School district |
Grades | K-12 |
Established | 1678 |
Superintendent | Dr. Steven Adamowski |
Budget | $133 million (2005-06) |
Students and staff | |
Students | 11,000 |
Athletic conference | FCIAC |
Other information | |
Website | www |
There are an assortment of public, private, and parochial schools in Norwalk, Connecticut.
There are four post-secondary schools within the city of Norwalk:
There are also other post-secondary schools in nearby towns.
The Norwalk Hospital runs an internship program associated with the Yale School of Medicine and a nursing program associated with Norwalk Community College.
Norwalk was granted a town charter by the Connecticut General Court in 1651. On May 29, 1678, town records mention the establishment of community-supported teaching activities with a passage that reads:
The school that was established in the 1670s was located near the Ludlow Square area of East Norwalk (near the former Roger Ludlow Junior High School).
Recent Norwalk public school graduates have gone on to attend universities such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, New York University, and Wesleyan. The current superintendent of Norwalk Public Schools is Susan F. Marks, Ph.D.