Hello and welcome. In addition to answering your questions about our school and its program, we hope our site gives you a sense of the character of Connecticut Friends School. We believe CFS is a compelling model of a school community for all its constituents: students, families, staff, and friends.

Within a Friends school, there is an excitement from being in a place where it is considered ‘cool’ to enjoy learning, to respect intelligence and achievement, to value collaboration over competition. Our school is a jewel amongst schools in this area because it is an intimate environment where everyone is known and supported.

We put a premium on this quality of being known and appreciated, and both the scale and organization of our program reflect this. Our students come to possess an uncommon poise and an uncommon kindness. Imagine a class of 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students presenting their LiterARTure projects to a roomful of parents, staff and middle school students. Our middle school students step outside of the gravity of young adolescent self-absorption and honor the work of their young schoolmates with genuine appreciation and excitement. That these types of events and connections are daily occurrences at CFS makes them no less extraordinary.

We describe what we do here as serious work in a joyous atmosphere. We hope you’ll come visit and see for yourself.

Yours truly,

Kim Tsocanos and Mark Dansereau
Co-Heads of Connecticut Friends School