The Elisabeth Morrow School pursues the highest educational standards in a supportive, creative environment. We challenge our students’ intellects, promote academic excellence, encourage independent thinking, and cultivate individual talents. Our dedicated, experienced faculty fosters moral growth and social responsibility. Within our culturally diverse community, we value tradition, innovation and the joy of lifelong learning.

Elisabeth Morrow, the daughter of Dwight Morrow, financier and the Ambassador to Mexico, and Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, was passionate about the education of children.  Throughout her adolescent years, she envisioned a school where students would develop academically, socially and ethically within a supportive environment.  Upon completion of her education at Smith College and along with classmate Constance Chilton, Elisabeth's long-awaited dream of providing a quality education in early childhood became a reality in 1930.  With smiles and outstretched hands, Elisabeth and Constance greeted forty students along with the children's parents at the doorstep of The Little School located in a home on Linden Avenue in Englewood.

In 1936, the school moved into its new residence at 435 Lydecker Street in Englewood, the site of her childhood home.  Since the relocation, the school has expanded to nearly five hundred children from age three through grade eight.  Today, the school maintains a fourteen-acre campus along with six buildings, four state-of-the-art computer labs, two gymnasiums, three science labs, three libraries, an athletic field, nature trails, working gardens and three playgrounds.

The Elisabeth Morrow School is a community of students, faculty, administrators, staff, parents, students and alumni, all of whom value an excellent education as fundamental in the lives of children and the adults they will become. The keystone of the School is the    “4 C’s.”

Cooperation, Consideration, Compassion, Courtesy

The School community encompasses many different cultures, valuing their contributions to the lives of the students, who, in turn, come to appreciate the differences among people.  This begins with a personal handshake that each student receives upon arrival to the School.

Beyond the 4 C’s, which emphasize the importance of respecting the needs and feelings of others, the School also holds as central the value of:

• setting high standards in all endeavors;
• the central role of honesty in relationships;
• the importance of taking responsibility for one’s own conduct;
• and the worthiness of service to others.

There are very few occasions in which these central values do not give clarity and direction to all that we do and how we judge actions and words.