Chase Collegiate School was a nonsectarian private day school offering education for children from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The school was on a 47-acre (190,000 m2) campus[3] in Waterbury, Connecticut. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school announced its closure on August 13, 2020.[4]
As of 2015, the enrollment was 276 students: 61 Lower School (age 3 pre-kindergarten through 5th grade), 75 Middle School (6th through 8th grades), and 140 Upper School (high school).
History
Chase was a co-educational school formed by the merger of two single-sex schools. The first was a girls' school established in 1865 as Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, later St. Margaret's School for Girls. The second was a boys' school established in 1912 as the McTernan School for Boys. Upon merging in 1972, the combined school was called St. Margaret's-McTernan.[2] The unified name was meant to appeal to both school communities.[5]
Circa 2004-2005 a "School Name Committee" was determining whether to and how to change the school's name.[6] The school leadership wanted a name that showed secularism as the school was at that point secular.[5] The institution was renamed to Chase Collegiate School in 2005.[2] All members of the school's board of trustees had voted to rename the school.[5]
On October 2, 2017, the school announced that it had been purchased by York Education Group, a for-profit entity which owns multiple schools.[7]
The school closed in August 2020 before the 2020-2021 school year could begin, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut. The school stated that the pandemic caused the closure.[8] By 2021 the campus was sold to Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES), an organization that operates magnet schools
.[9] ACES operates "ACES at Chase" at the former Chase Collegiate campus.[10]
Notable alumni
- Grant Goodeve - television actor
- Steven Erlanger - journalist
- Joan Bennett - actress
- Lucia Chase - founding patron of the American Ballet Theatre
- Jayne Meadows - stage, film, and television actress
- Gene Tierney - actress
- Michaela Petit - victim of the Cheshire murders
References
- ^ "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Chase Collegiate School". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ^ a b c "History and Origins". Waterbury, Connecticut: Chase Collegiate School. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ^ a b "Quick Facts". Waterbury, Connecticut: Chase Collegiate School. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ^ "Chase Collegiate School to Close". August 14, 2020. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Waterbury school plans to change its name July 1". The News-Times. Danbury, Connecticut. April 14, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2024. - See alternate version at Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- ^ "St. Margaret's-McTernan School to be Chase Collegiate School". Town Times. Southbury, Connecticut: Prime Publishers, Inc. April 7, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Chase Collegiate now owned by private school chain". Republican-American. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ^ "Waterbury private school abruptly closes its doors weeks before fall semester set to begin". WTNH. August 13, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Sale of Chase Collegiate School location nearly complete". Republican American. May 11, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Home". ACES at Chase. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
565 Chase Parkway Waterbury, CT 06708
- Same address as former Chase Collegiate.
