Pierrepont
School is a small, independent, co-educational elementary and high school based
in Westport, Connecticut. Founded in 1999, the school enrolls students from
kindergarten through high school ages. The school currently
consists of one hundred and thirty one students, K–12, and forty full and
part-time teachers, offering a student to faculty ratio of slightly more than
three to one. Classes, therefore, are small, and student schedules are
individualized. Senior faculty members typically have post-graduate degrees
from leading universities and are professionally active in their fields. The
school seeks and supports teachers who bring into the classroom the same
passion and rigor they bring to the study of their own discipline. Pierrepont seeks students who are
academically motivated and engaged and who can participate successfully in a
demanding curriculum. Chronological age serves as a tentative guide for placement
that is answerable to the variegations in academic skills, needs and maturity
among children.