The Foote School is a private K–9 co-ed day school founded in 1916, located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, United States, near Yale University. The head of school is Carol Maoz.Student body and facultyThe school has 480 students from more than 20 surrounding cities and towns. There are 120 faculty and staff members, making up a 6:1 student-to-teacher-ratio. The school has two divisions—the lower school, with grades kindergarten–5 and middle school with grades 6–9. The lower school tuition fee for 2016–2017 is US$24,670, and middle school tuition is $30,100, all-inclusive. In 2013–14, Foote awarded $1.6 million in financial aid to 21 percent of the student body.After Foote, most students go on to attend private high schools, with about 60 percent attending as day students at schools including Choate Rosemary Hall, Hopkins School, and Hamden Hall, and 20 percent enrolling as boarding students at schools such as Westminster School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, and Phillips Academy. About 20 percent continue their education at local public high schools, including Hamden High School, Amity Regional High School and Wilbur Cross High School. According to data maintained by the school, the universities and colleges enrolling the largest numbers of Foote alumni as freshman between 2000 and 2011 were Yale University, George Washington University, New York University, Amherst College, Harvard University, Brown University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Connecticut.
