As Headmaster, I would like to welcome you to Thornton-Donovan School’s website, a great way to learn more about our school.

T-D is Westchester’s only “Little Red Schoolhouse.” Founded in 1901, T-D celebrated its centennial in the 2000-2001 school year. The School has about 170 academically talented students who come from homes around the corner and homes around the world.

As an independent co-ed K-12 school, T-D specializes in international education with dozens of “Sister Schools” around the world. Students can go to school in Pusan, Korea; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Shanghai, China; La Rochelle, France; Nottingham, England; Rome, Italy; Mexico City, Guatemala City, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Tirana, Albania, Hiroshima, Japan. During the course of the school year, T-D and T-D families often host visiting students from these destinations.

The international program is enhanced through language study in classes with only 10 – 12 pupils. French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, German, and Russian are taught daily, in which students routinely achieve a very high level of proficiency.

For 2011-2012 T-D’s school family will be saluting Venice, one of the world’s most inspirational cities. T-D will spend about two weeks in May, the culmination of a year of study of the ways in which Venice influenced and was influenced by the world. Why not become an explorer and come with T-D to the country that was a cradle of exploration and invention. T-D’s last academic adventure was in Ireland, an unparalleled experience for the 80 students, parents and teachers who sallied forth.

As is the case with each and every yearly theme, new courses are introduced to broaden our thinking about it, and students from grades 6-12 are invited to select a few. All of T-D’s thematic courses are taught for only one year. They are integrated within T-D’s regular curriculum which can best be described as classical and Western.

T-D’s regular upper school curriculum offers four years of English, social science, math, and science; as well as seven foreign languages. Most T-D classes in the upper school are honors classes. AP exams can quite easily be scheduled.

Should you decide to go global, check out the thematic education section of this website as we begin to post the classes being developed for this year’s theme; and please visit the school.

T-D is your portal to a world class education.

Thornton-Donovan is for young people who want to go places

There is no place like T-D. There is no place like here.

Cordially,

Douglas E. Fleming, Jr.
Headmaster