The Loomis Chaffee School is an independent, coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school in Windsor, Connecticut. Chartered in 1874 and founded by the five Loomis siblings, who used their inheritance to benefit the wider community, the school serves students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduates on a 300-acre residential campus. It enrols approximately 750 students, a mix of boarders and day students, which makes for year-round, live-in campus operations alongside the academic calendar.
The academic programme spans 11 departments, among them Computer Science, Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship, Mathematics, Science, English, History, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Modern & Classical Languages, Performing Arts, Social Science and Visual Arts. Four named centres structure much of the school's wider work: the Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies, the Norton Family Center for the Common Good, the Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching and the Pearse Hub for Innovation, the last of these covering engineering and innovation. Athletics run to 21 teams competing in the Founders League and NEPSAC Division I, with additional offerings in music, theatre, dance and visual arts, and summer programmes for middle and high school students.
The school's stated mission is to inspire in students a commitment to "the best self and the common good", and it reports a commitment to inclusive excellence and belonging. Teaching quality is a stated priority through the Kravis Center. The institution is a member of the Education and preparatory-school sector, operating as both a boarding and a day school.
