West Hartford Public Schools

West Hartford Public Schools provides education for West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

Bristow Middle School was opened in 2005. The school named after a slave who had the same name.Bristow to slave bought his freedom from Thomas Hooker. It is a magnet school. It has a student body of 421 as of 2015. It is the best school ever.

Sedgwick School opened in 1931 as a combination junior high and elementary school. The elementary school, housed in the east wing, was headed by Miss Marie Lipps. The west wing housed the junior high and was headed by Mr. P.D. Graybeal. A Bronze statue of Mr. Graybeal resides in the library.

In 1965, the growing population required that the whole building be used for junior high students and Sedgwick ceased its dual role as an elementary and junior high school. Many of the elementary students moved to the newly opened Braeburn School along with Miss Lipps, who became the first principal of that school, while Mr. Graybeal would become head of Sedgwick Middle School.

Sedgwick has undergone several renovations and organizational changes since the 1970s. The school became a middle school in 1979 and the sixth grade was added in the fall of 1990, making it a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade school. In order to accommodate these changes as well as to deal with an increase in enrollment a major renovation occurred in 1974-1975, a new wing was added in 1989-1990, the library was expanded in 2001 and another wing was opened in September 2003.

Sedgwick was a Blue Ribbon School in 1. 69-11.^[2]

The school educates grades kindergarten through fifth, with an annual enrollment of approximately 450 students. As of 2012, the interim school principal is Ms. Karen Kukish. In 2004, the school selected the owl as their mascot and by a vote of students the mascot was named "m9".

In 1997, West Hartford wanted to expand the school to provide better service for pre-kindergarten and special education, so an addition comprising six pre-kindergarten rooms, six kindergarten rooms, and two special education rooms was built. The original building was built on a slope, with an upper and lower level and a small intermediate floor a half-floor between the two. The award-winning addition better joins the upper and lower levels with an L-shaped corridor. This corridor is brightly lit using natural light, and there is a courtyard to provide an enclosed outside area for the younger students to play. The addition was completed in September 1997.

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