Welcome
- An intentional education
  
  This is our mission: Aspen Country Day School, through its commitment to rigorous academics, creative arts, and outdoor education, ignites curiosity, confidence, and critical thinking. In an inspiring mountain setting, our nurturing community encourages students to strive for individual excellence and instills in them a lifelong love of learning, sense of purpose, and responsible citizenship.
Admission
- An intentional choice
  
  Aspen Country Day School brings the ethos of mountain life into an education that rivals what you’ll find at the top schools in big cities. Whether you are considering a move to the Roaring Fork Valley or have already made a home here, we’d love to meet you, welcome you to our beautiful campus, and show you what makes Aspen Country Day School outstanding.
Academics + Arts + Outdoors
- The power of three
  
  Academics. Arts. Outdoors. Each of our programs is strong on its own, but the true value of an Aspen Country Day School education lies in the synergy of the three. The families that founded our school in 1969 drew inspiration from the Aspen Idea — the philosophy that true balance comes from cultivating mind, body, and spirit in a place of natural beauty and inspiration.
People of Country Day
- An intentional community
  
  The strength of any school comes from its people: the teachers, leaders, parents, and alumni who are committed to a shared purpose. Meet the adults who challenge and nurture Aspen Country Day School children to build confidence, resilience, and joy in learning.
School experience
- A sense of place
  
  At Aspen Country Day School, children grow up immersed in a remarkable landscape that feeds the growing soul. Year after year, they become steadily more prepared for the next steps in their journey. Soon they are ready and eager for lives of meaning and purpose.

Stories

A story of your own, from a Sixth Grade friend.

February 28, 2022

When Sixth Graders at Aspen Country Day School decided to write stories for their friends in Kindergarten, they knew this was a job to be taken seriously. So under the guidance of Sixth Grade English teacher Renée Wheeler, they tackled the project with vigor.

“The class had been learning about Joseph Campbell’s stages of the hero’s journey,” explains Renée. “We started by asking the Kindergarteners what elements they would like to hear about in a story, whether unicorns, dogs, favorite foods, people, or places. Then Sixth Graders took those elements and applied them to this ancient story structure, shared by cultures worldwide, to write their epic tales.”

At the time their stories were in draft form, the pandemic was still preventing children from getting together across grades. So the Sixth Graders took to a new platform, podcasting, to record their stories for their friends. The result is a Soundcloud playlist — one for each Kindergarten class — with personalized stories full of adventures and fun. Each story was created with a certain Kindergartener in mind, and as the five- and six-year-olds know, there is nothing quite like hearing a story that was made just for you. But now they’re available for all to hear. Take a listen!

Listen here

some stories on the playlists:

Expert guidance

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