Chase Collegiate School

Chase Collegiate School was a nonsectarian private day school offering education for children from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The school was on a 47-acre (190,000 m²) campus^[3] in Waterbury, Connecticut. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school announced its closure on August 13, 2020.^[4]

Chase Collegiate School
Address
565 Chase Parkway Waterbury , Connecticut 06708 United States
Coordinates	41°32′51″N 73°03′59″W
Information
Funding type	Private
Motto	Cease not to learn until thou cease to live
Religious affiliation(s)	Nonsectarian
Founded	1865 (1865) (Collegiate); 1912 (1912) (McTernan), 1972 (1972) (unified school)
Closed	2020
Locale	Midsize suburb
CEEB code	070850
NCES School ID	00233283[1]
Teaching staff	45.3 (FTE)
Grades	Pre-K – 12
Gender	Co-educational
Enrollment	402 (2013-2014)
Student to teacher ratio	8.6
Campus size	47 acres (190,000 m2)
Color(s)	Green and white
Nickname	Highlanders
Yearbook	Salmagundi
Endowment	$13,340,132.33
Tuition	$6,400–$16,900 (Pre-K); $19,900–$35,900 (K–12) (as of 2014[update])
Website	www.chasecollegiate.org
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As of 2015^[update], the enrollment was 276 students: 61 Lower School (age 3 pre-kindergarten through 5th grade), 75 Middle School (6th through 8th grades), and 140 Upper School (high school).

History

Chase was a co-educational school formed by the merger of two single-sex schools. The first was a girls' school established in 1865 as Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, later St. Margaret's School for Girls. The second was a boys' school established in 1912 as the McTernan School for Boys. Upon merging in 1972, the combined school was called St. Margaret's-McTernan.^[2] The unified name was meant to appeal to both school communities.^[5]

Circa 2004-2005 a "School Name Committee" was determining whether to and how to change the school's name.^[6] The school leadership wanted a name that showed secularism as the school was at that point secular.^[5] The institution was renamed to Chase Collegiate School in 2005.^[2] All members of the school's board of trustees had voted to rename the school.^[5]

On October 2, 2017, the school announced that it had been purchased by York Education Group, a for-profit entity which owns multiple schools.^[7]

The school closed in August 2020 before the 2020-2021 school year could begin, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut. The school stated that the pandemic caused the closure.^[8] By 2021 the campus was sold to Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES), an organization that operates magnet schools

.^[9] ACES operates "ACES at Chase" at the former Chase Collegiate campus.^[10]

Notable alumni

• Grant Goodeve - television actor
• Steven Erlanger - journalist
• Joan Bennett - actress
• Lucia Chase - founding patron of the American Ballet Theatre
• Jayne Meadows - stage, film, and television actress
• Gene Tierney - actress (attended St. Margaret's School for Girls)^[11]
• Michaela Petit - victim of the Cheshire murders