BCDS MISSION STATEMENT

    Beaver Country Day School offers an academically challenging curriculum in an environment that promotes balance in students’ lives. Deeply committed to individual student success, teachers inspire students to

    • Reason and engage deeply with complex ideas and issues;

    • Be intellectually curious, open-minded, and fair;

    • Identify and build upon their strengths;

    • Develop leadership and teamwork skills;

    • Act effectively within a genuinely diverse cultural and social framework;

    • Serve both school and society with integrity, respect, and compassion.


    Revised January 2006
In 1920, the first Head of Beaver Country Day School, Eugene Randolph Smith, envisioned a new school that would be dedicated to "the education of the whole child in a way that promotes moral, physical, intellectual, and artistic growth."