Madison Country Day School

Madison Country Day School is a nonsectarian, independent day school in Dane County, Wisconsin, for grades Pre-K through grade 12. The school has an enrollment of about 500 students. It is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS),^[1] and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).^[2] It is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School that offers the IB Diploma Program (DP) to high school students in grades 11 and 12.^[3] As well as the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) to students in grades 5 to10 and IB Primary Years Program (PYP) to students in Pre-k to grade 4. Madison Country Day School is informally known as "MCDS".

The school began classes on September 2, 1997.^[4] The school was originally planned for a 46-acre (19 ha) site in the Town of Westport donated by PDQ convenience store founder Sam Jacobsen,^[5] with buildings to be designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects.^[6] However, when a conditional use permit was denied by the Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee,^[7] the school rented quarters in a former schoolhouse in the town of Martinsville.^[8] Twenty-two students enrolled in 1997 for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and Grades 1–3. Additional grades were added one at a time. The school later moved to 76 acres (310,000 m²) of land near Waunakee. A $3 million renovation project in 2001 converted sleeping rooms of the former Yahara Center into classrooms.^[9] An upper school was formed when the ninth grade was added in 2003.^[10] The first senior class graduated in the spring of 2007.^[11] In 2015, a fundraiser began called Spreading Our Wings. The goal was to raise 6.8 million dollars in order to expand the school. The fundraiser was named after the school mascot, the fictional Prairie Hawk.

MCDS es un colegio del Bachillerato Internacional acreditado por la Asociación de Colegios Independientes de los Estados Centrales (ISACS) y miembro de la Asociación Nacional de Colegios Independientes (NAIS).

MCDS matricula estudiantes desde preescolar hasta el 12.º grado. La escuela tiene tres secciones: la sección primaria abarca desde preescolar hasta cuarto grado; la sección intermedia comprende desde quinto hasta octavo grado; y la sección preparatoria, desde noveno hasta duodécimo grado.

Los equipos atléticos de MCDS son conocidos como los Prairie Hawks, y han sido miembros de la Trailways Conference desde 2012. ^{[ 12 ]}