Long Ridge is a school by design, where children stay children longer and thrive in an environment created specifically for them. Every child is a unique individual, and learning is an active, joyful experience.

It is part of our core belief that children enrich each other through their differences and commonalities. The Long Ridge School has always worked to achieve a diverse student body, representing a range of cultures, religions, ethnicities, and socio-economic circumstances. Statistically, students of diverse ethnic backgrounds comprise more than 40% of our community. While three-quarters of families come from Stamford, the remaining quarter comes nearly equally from other Fairfield County towns and Westchester County. Although we are a small school, we strive to help qualified families through financial aid.

We offer our graduating families significant support in helping them find the best fit for their next school. Our graduates most frequently attended area independent schools are Harvey, King, New Canaan Country School, St. Luke’s, and local public schools. Recent high school (and Long Ridge) graduates attend Boston University, Brown, Colgate, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Northeastern, NYU, Penn State, Princeton, Skidmore, Tulane, University of Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wellesley, Williams, and Yale.

Our school’s parents, guardians, and families choose us because we are exclusively focused on early childhood and elementary education.

We celebrate childhood while cultivating a love of learning for a lifetime. All resources here at Long Ridge are directed to providing opportunities for young children. We have strong academics in a joyful, safe environment. With excellence in science, arts, and math, we encourage risk-taking while building confidence in all our learners. Our families know the importance of the individualized attention and learning that each child receives by meeting our kids where they are in our low student-to-teacher ratio classrooms. Students and families alike become part of our close-knit, inclusive community. Our community, rich in diversity, comprises down-to-earth, unpretentious faculty, leadership, parents, guardians, and families of many different socioeconomic, cultural, and family compositions.

Our progressive education, based in multi-age classrooms with themes and inquiry-based, interdisciplinary curriculum, is constantly evolving based on the latest, proven approaches. Through this, our students are developed into good citizens learning leadership, inclusivity, and how to work together in an environment where “Loving kindness prevails.”

This strong preparation for whatever comes next provides the foundation to a lifetime of academic, professional, and personal success. Our proven track record of getting students into desired placements upon graduation provides our parents and guardians with the comfort and confidence that their investment in this school and their children was the right one to make.

The faculty has an average of 18 years of experience in education and an average of 13 years teaching at our school. Most have master’s degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in their subject areas and areas such as law and international relations. We have specialists in music, science, Spanish, and physical education, a librarian, and a learning specialist. Many of our faculty studied at Bank Street College of Education, Manhattanville College, or Sarah Lawrence College and are skillful leaders of child-centered classrooms where curiosity and exploration power the curriculum, and hands-on experience informs discovery.