Park City Day School

The school is organised in three divisions. The Early School covers the toddler, nursery, preschool and pre-kindergarten years and uses curated exploration and play. The Lower School covers kindergarten through fifth grade and works through hands-on projects integrated across subject areas, supported by specialists in science, Spanish, music, visual and performing arts and wellness, plus a maths specialist. The Middle School covers sixth through eighth grade, with subject teachers who also act as advisors.

The mission is to prepare and inspire students to lead great and giving lives, and the vision is a community in which every family is known and every child is nurtured and challenged. Five values, taught as the Strive for Five programme, run through the school day: respect, responsibility, compassion, integrity and teamwork. The strategic pillars describe a connected community where every child belongs, a culture of stretching towards challenge for the sake of growth rather than marks, and expansive experiences that join subjects together and draw on the natural world.

The school sits on a single campus on Pinebrook Road, with a lower school library that doubles as the venue for open houses and school gatherings. Its stated approach treats the natural environment around Park City as an essential outdoor classroom, and field trips to nearby parks and trails are a regular part of the week. The current strategic plan includes a facilities master plan: the school is reworking its learning environments, creating nature-based, Reggio-inspired spaces for the early years and expanding the middle school to suit the developmental needs of adolescents.

Tuition for 2026-27 runs from $14,200 for five mornings in the toddler, preschool and junior kindergarten programmes to $22,630 for full days at that level, $29,210 in kindergarten through fifth grade and $31,700 in sixth through eighth. Families can pay annually, twice yearly or in ten monthly instalments. Tuition assistance is awarded on financial need through an independent third party: in 2025 the school allocated approximately $760,000 to 23 per cent of families.

Outdoor education is the school's signature programme: students head out on trips that connect what they are studying to the natural world. Membership of the Round Square consortium connects them to schools in other countries and to conferences and exchanges, and the school commits to keeping that participation as part of its approach to global learning. After School Enrichment runs during the week, with sessions such as Adventures in Art, and a separate Friday afternoon programme is offered for younger age groups, mixing games, crafts, outdoor play and local adventures. In the summer the school runs its own camp with dedicated coordinators.