Founded in 1959, Rockland Country Day School was established by a group of community leaders whose standards reflected the era’s heightened concern with educational excellence. Led by Professor Charles Frankel of Columbia University, first president of the RCDS Board of Trustees, the group shared a common vision of formal schooling that was forward-looking and innovative, while grounded in the independent school tradition of challenging intellectual work, character development and preparation for leadership in our world.

At its founding, the School was situated in South Nyack, NY. When it outgrew that site, the School moved to its present location, twenty acres of open and wooded land in Congers, NY. Located twenty miles from Manhattan, the School’s program is greatly enriched by the city’s diverse cultural offerings.

At its core, RCDS is a school where children become rooted in ethical integrity and learn to sustain individual differences. Their regard for multi-cultural needs, humanitarian idealism, and community service opens their awareness to human need in the larger world.