City: Savannah, GA

Category: Education

Telephone: (912) 925-8800

Address: 824 Stillwood Dr.

Description: Country Day strives to fulfill its motto—“Fostering excellence through knowledge, character, and service”—through a college prep program that emphasizes topflight performance in academics, the arts, and athletics. The student-teacher ratio is 10 to 1, with class sizes averaging 21 students in the lower school, 16 in the middle school, and 15 in the upper school. The coed school offers 19 Advanced Placement courses.A broad range of athletics and extracurricular activities is offered, with the middle and upper schools fielding more than 40 sports teams. The school has 2 libraries with more than 25,000 volumes and 85 online services, 4 computer labs with 350 networked computers, 4 music and art studios, a fine-arts center, 3 gymnasiums, and a football stadium.The Country Day campus is on 65 wooded acres tucked away in the Windsor Forest subdivision on the Southside. The school moved there in 1957 from a building on Forsyth Park that had been the home of the Pape School for Girls from 1905 until 1955, the year Country Day was chartered. Since then, it has added several buildings.