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Choate Rosemary Hall is an independent boarding and day school of 860 high school students in grades 9-postgraduate (PG) in the scenic New England town of Wallingford, Connecticut.
Stimulating academics, supportive adults, and a sprawling campus attract motivated students from all over the world to live and learn together.
Here, we generate powerful introductions—the kind you feel in your heart, or that energize you, or become future-defining. This is a school for students who feel that pull—toward challenge, relevance, and side-by-side creation.
We Meet Each Day With Intention
The Choate Way is our commitment to balanced minds and bright futures. We structure every aspect of our academic program so you can continually engage with challenges, concepts, competitions, connections, and endeavors that build resilience, skills, and prepare you for successful leadership.
Balance
An academic schedule shaped around you, with room to design your own experience, explore endless interests, unleash your talents in arts and athletics, and pursue the ideas that matter most.
Innovation
Purpose-built learning spaces and forward-thinking teachers offer classes focused on pedagogy, emerging technologies, and the skills you need for an ever-changing future.
Connection
A community small enough to know you and big enough to surprise you, with mentors, teachers, coaches, and friends who show up to experience the fullness of high school right alongside you.
Choate By the Numbers
860
students from 41 states and 58 countries
300+
core courses and electives in 6 academic departments
100+
clubs and organizations
458
acre campus
80+
performances and shows
21+
sports and 65+ teams
8
Signature Programs
5
ground-breaking, purpose-built, LEED-certified learning spaces
2
blocks to downtown Wallingford
Meet Choate 👋
History
Rosemary Hall, a school for girls, was founded in 1890 by Mary Atwater Choate. In 1896, Mary’s husband, Judge William G. Choate, established The Choate School for boys on the same family property in Wallingford. Eventually, the combined school built on the strengths of its common roots and shared purpose, inspiring academic excellence for future generations of students.
Mission & Core Documents
A rigorous academic curriculum and an emphasis on the formation of character in a residential setting that allows for teachers and students to live with and learn from each other–these, together, define the Choate experience.
Academics
Our academic program is thoughtfully designed for students to pick and pursue a full range of intellectual explorations–all while experiencing the best of high school. Discussion, collaboration, and project-based work plus thoughtful use of technology–it’s all here.
Student Life
Campus life at Choate is the through-line, connecting classroom, courts, fields, studios, stages, and the wider world into one continuous, epic experience. It’s where a tight-knit community meets boundless opportunity and wide perspectives, giving every student many ways to belong and grow.