Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Wooster School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory Pre-K-12 school in Danbury, Connecticut, in the United States. The school was founded in 1926 by Aaron Coburn. Wooster's four cardinal principles are simplicity, religion, hard work, and intellectual excellence. An Episcopal school, Wooster emphasizes community service and helping others. The school's mission is to "maintain a school for the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, aesthetic, and physical development of boys and girls of diverse backgrounds." Its motto is "Ex Quoque Potestate, Cuique Pro Necessitate," roughly, "From each according to ability, to each according to need."As of the 2003–04 school year, the school had an enrollment of 417 students and 56.1 faculty members (on a full-time equivalent basis) for a student-teacher ratio of 7.4.Notable alumni include award-winning folk singer and guitarist Tracy Chapman; the painter Andrew Stevovich; trial attorney Cyrus Mehri; developer Marc Vandenhoeck; Zachary Cole Smith, singer and frontman of DIIV; and Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University for a decade in the 1990s.The school has earned 5 stars on the "Great Schools" web site. It is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, and other prep school groups.Wooster School is named for General David Wooster, who fought at the Battle of Ridgefield for the Colonial side in the American Revolution. The battlefield for the Danbury Raid is near the campus.The school was the first prep school to actively recruit minority candidates as a "feeder system" for elite Ivy League colleges, such as Harvard University."@en }
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- Wooster_School abstract "Wooster School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory Pre-K-12 school in Danbury, Connecticut, in the United States. The school was founded in 1926 by Aaron Coburn. Wooster's four cardinal principles are simplicity, religion, hard work, and intellectual excellence. An Episcopal school, Wooster emphasizes community service and helping others. The school's mission is to "maintain a school for the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, aesthetic, and physical development of boys and girls of diverse backgrounds." Its motto is "Ex Quoque Potestate, Cuique Pro Necessitate," roughly, "From each according to ability, to each according to need."As of the 2003–04 school year, the school had an enrollment of 417 students and 56.1 faculty members (on a full-time equivalent basis) for a student-teacher ratio of 7.4.Notable alumni include award-winning folk singer and guitarist Tracy Chapman; the painter Andrew Stevovich; trial attorney Cyrus Mehri; developer Marc Vandenhoeck; Zachary Cole Smith, singer and frontman of DIIV; and Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University for a decade in the 1990s.The school has earned 5 stars on the "Great Schools" web site. It is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, and other prep school groups.Wooster School is named for General David Wooster, who fought at the Battle of Ridgefield for the Colonial side in the American Revolution. The battlefield for the Danbury Raid is near the campus.The school was the first prep school to actively recruit minority candidates as a "feeder system" for elite Ivy League colleges, such as Harvard University.".