Chase Collegiate School

{{Infobox school

|name = Chase Collegiate School

|logo = Chase Collegiate School official seal.jpg

|logo_size = 180px

|motto = Cease not to learn until thou cease to live

|streetaddress = 565 Chase Parkway

|city = Waterbury

|state = Connecticut

|zipcode = 06708

|country = United States

|coordinates = {{coord|41.54755|-73.0664|region:US-CT_type:edu|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|pushpin_map = Connecticut#USA

|fundingtype = Private

|religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian

|founded = {{Start date|1865}} (Collegiate); {{Start date|1912}} (McTernan), {{Start date|1972}} (unified school)

|closed = 2020

|ceeb = 070850

|us_nces_school_id = {{NCES Private School ID|00233283|school_name=Chase Collegiate School|access_date=2012-03-25}}

|locale = Midsize suburb

|teaching_staff = 45.3 (FTE)

|grades = Pre-K – 12

|gender = Co-educational

|enrollment = 402

|enrollment_as_of = 2013-2014

|ratio = 8.6

|campus size = {{convert|47|acre|m2|sp=us}}

|colors = Green and white {{Color box|green|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|white|border=darkgray}}

|nickname = Highlanders

|publication =

|newspaper =

|yearbook = Salmagundi

|endowment = $13,340,132.33

|budget =

|fees =

|tuition = $6,400–$16,900 (Pre-K); $19,900–$35,900 (K–12) ({{as of|2014|lc=on}})

|url = {{URL|http://www.chasecollegiate.org/}}

|footnotes =

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Chase Collegiate School was a nonsectarian private day school offering education for children from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The school was on a {{convert|47|acre|m2|adj=on|sp=us}} campus{{cite web | url = http://www.chasecollegiate.org/page.cfm?p=5 | title = Quick Facts | publisher = Chase Collegiate School | location = Waterbury, Connecticut | accessdate = 2012-03-25 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120430004903/http://www.chasecollegiate.org/page.cfm?p=5 | archivedate = 2012-04-30 }} in Waterbury, Connecticut. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school announced its closure on August 13, 2020.{{Cite news|url=https://patch.com/connecticut/naugatuck/chase-collegiate-school-close|access-date=2020-08-21|language=en-US|title=Chase Collegiate School to Close |date=14 August 2020 }}

{{As of|2015}}, the enrollment was 276 students: 61 Lower School (age 3 pre-kindergarten through 5th grade), 75 Middle School (6th through 8th grades), and 140 Upper School (high school).

History

Chase was a co-educational school formed by the merger of two single-sex schools. The first was a girls' school established in 1865 as Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, later St. Margaret's School for Girls. The second was a boys' school established in 1912 as the McTernan School for Boys. Upon merging in 1972, the combined school was called St. Margaret's-McTernan.{{cite web | url = http://www.chasecollegiate.org/page.cfm?p=1746 | title = History and Origins | publisher = Chase Collegiate School | location = Waterbury, Connecticut | accessdate = 2012-03-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120430004446/http://www.chasecollegiate.org/page.cfm?p=1746 | archive-date = 2012-04-30 | url-status = dead }} The unified name was meant to appeal to both school communities.{{cite web|url=https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/waterbury-school-plans-to-change-its-name-july-1-117953.php|title=Waterbury school plans to change its name July 1|newspaper=The News-Times|place=Danbury, Connecticut|date=2005-04-14|access-date=2024-06-13}} - [https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/waterbury-school-plans-to-change-its-name-july-1-243014.php See alternate version at] Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Circa 2004-2005 a "School Name Committee" was determining whether to and how to change the school's name.{{cite web|url=https://www.primepublishers.com/towntimesnews/news/community_news/st-margarets-mcternan-schoolto-be-chase-collegiate-school/article_2dea163a-2435-5569-9435-921c147c1332.html|title=St. Margaret's-McTernan School to be Chase Collegiate School |newspaper=Town Times|place=Southbury, Connecticut|publisher=Prime Publishers, Inc.|date=2005-04-07|access-date=2024-06-13}} The school leadership wanted a name that showed secularism as the school was at that point secular. The institution was renamed to Chase Collegiate School in 2005. All members of the school's board of trustees had voted to rename the school.

On October 2, 2017, the school announced that it had been purchased by York Education Group, a for-profit entity which owns multiple schools.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rep-am.com/news/2017/10/03/chase-collegiate-waterbury-icon-now-owned-by-private-school-chain/|title=Chase Collegiate now owned by private school chain|date=2017-10-03|work=Republican-American|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111024/http://www.rep-am.com/news/2017/10/03/chase-collegiate-waterbury-icon-now-owned-by-private-school-chain/|archive-date=2017-10-26|url-status=dead}}

The school closed in August 2020 before the 2020-2021 school year could begin, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Connecticut. The school stated that the pandemic caused the closure.{{cite web|url=https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/waterbury-private-school-abruptly-closes-its-doors-weeks-before-fall-semester-set-to-begin/|title=Waterbury private school abruptly closes its doors weeks before fall semester set to begin |publisher=WTNH|date=2020-08-13|access-date=2024-06-13}} By 2021 the campus was sold to Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES), an organization that operates magnet schools

.{{cite web|url=https://archives.rep-am.com/2021/05/11/sale-of-chase-collegiate-school-location-nearly-complete/|title=Sale of Chase Collegiate School location nearly complete|newspaper=Republican American|date=2021-05-11|access-date=2024-06-13}} ACES operates "ACES at Chase" at the former Chase Collegiate campus.{{cite web|url=https://www.aces.org/schools-programs/magnet-schools/aces-at-chase|title=Home|publisher=ACES at Chase|access-date=2024-06-13|quote=565 Chase Parkway Waterbury, CT 06708}} - Same address as former Chase Collegiate.