Independent School · Charlotte

Charlotte Country Day School

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Charlotte Country Day School is the oldest independent school in Charlotte, founded in 1941. The school serves junior kindergarten through 12th grade across its Cannon campus on Carmel Road and the Bissell campus for middle school. The International Baccalaureate diploma is offered alongside a traditional college preparatory track. Admission is selective, and a broad athletics program runs across the divisions. The school holds the deepest institutional history of any school in the city.

What to know

The alumni network runs through Charlotte business and civic life.
Athletics, arts and after school programs operate across both campuses.
Financial aid is available for admitted families.
Visits and open houses run through the fall.

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Spotlight story Eighteen students in a living room: how Charlotte Country Day became the county’s oldest independent school Dr. Thomas Burton opened his school in September 1941 in the home of a textile heir with eighteen children enrolled. Eighty-five years later Country Day has 1,600 students on two campuses, an International Baccalaureate program and a history it has begun to fill in publicly. Read the story →

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