Wooster School

Wooster School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory Pre-K-12 school in Danbury, Connecticut, in the United States. Wooster was founded in 1926 by Aaron Coburn and is named after General David Wooster, a Revolutionary War hero. Wooster's four cardinal principles are simplicity, religion, hard work, and intellectual excellence. An Episcopal school, Wooster emphasizes community service and helping others.Wooster states that its mission is to "maintain a school for the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, aesthetic, and physical development of boys and girls of diverse backgrounds." The school motto is Ex Quoque Potestate, Cuique Pro Necessitate. This translates roughly as "From each according to ability, to each according to need."

As of the 2003–04 school year, the school had an enrollment of 417 students and 56.1 faculty members (on a full-time equivalent basis) for a student-teacher ratio of 7.4.

Notable alumni include award-winning folk singer and guitarist Tracy Chapman, trial attorney Cyrus Mehri, developer Marc Vandenhoeck, and Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University for a decade in the 1990s.

It has earned 5 stars on the "Great Schools" web site. The school is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, and other prep school groups.

Wooster School is named for General David Wooster, whom fought at the Battle of Ridgefield for the Colonial side in the American Revolution, the battlefield for the Danbury Raid is near the campus.

The school was the first prep school to actively recruit minority candidates as a "feeder system" for elite Ivy League colleges, such as Harvard University.