Detroit Country Day School

MISSION Detroit Country Day School strives to provide a superior college preparatory, liberal arts educational opportunity to young people of cultural and intellectual diversity. Within a dignified and supportive setting, the school promotes the academic, artistic, moral, character, leadership and physical development of all students so that they can pursue excellence in their lives and careers, and play effective roles in their families and communities. HISTORY Since its founding in 1914 by F. Alden Shaw, Detroit Country Day School has offered a superior private education to students in a wholesome environment removed from the bustle of city life. Throughout almost 100 years of extensive physical and organizational change, Detroit Country Day School has remained true to the concept of nurturing the wholesome, well-balanced, and informed mind and the hardy, well disciplined, and healthy body. MOTTO Mens Sana In Corpore Sano - A sound mind in a sound body. MASCOT Yellowjacket