Welcome to Beacon Country Day School

The best gift you can give your child is an education that is joyful, fun, and exciting, ensuring future success and happiness. When you walk into BCDS, you will notice the difference! There is pervasive warmth that you will feel. Children are actively engaged in small, intimate groups and classes. Excitement is in the air. There is a sense of calm encouragement with lively discussions, intense observation of science experiments, learning games filled with laughter, and children's smiles beaming with success .

Beacon Country Day School, located in Greenwood Village serving the Denver Metro area, was founded in 1954, is an accredited, private, non-profit independent school that offers an enriched and accelerated educational experience for families seeking educational excellence. AdvancEd North Central Association, and the Accreditation Commission of Colorado for Private Schools, (ACCPS), accredit BCDS. Beacon also has an endorsement in education for gifted students from ACCPS. Our program provides a total learning experience for your child, which builds a foundation of knowledge and confidence.

Every child is an individual with a variety of abilities, skills, and unique learning style. We are dedicated to the development of the "whole child." Our warm, supportive, nurturing, and positive environment creates the opportunity for the development of self-esteem, academic achievement, creativity, responsibility, interpersonal skills, character, and an awareness and understanding of the world and the people around us. Children have many opportunities to make choices to encourage growth in responsibility, learning, and thinking.

The joy of learning requires the effort of a faculty who function as a team, striving to maximize each individual child's abilities. Our caring, experienced teachers recognize the value of utilizing each child's interests to promote life long learning. Successful learning experiences encourage and increase motivation, self-confidence, maturity, and sense of well-being that are so important to the development of a well-rounded, successful adult.

Small Learning Groups

Small learning groups allow each teacher to meet individual needs while encouraging each student to recognize his or her own worth. Self-esteem, academic achievement, creativity, and the joy of learning flourish in classrooms where the average class size is 15-18. The teacher/ student ratio is 1: 8. Research shows children in small classes receive much more personal attention which fosters greater achievement.

A total environment has been planned and provides state of the art facilities with classrooms for small learning groups, a gym, library, science lab, music room, and playgrounds designed for physical and recreational activities. We are located in a beautiful country setting where we encourage the children to observe wild life and explore nature.

Many small animals live on our campus in a natural habitat: protected wetlands and a small pond are used for science throughout the year. Children love the animals, and gain real understanding of ecology and nature. Our hills are great for sledding, and walks around the grounds to discover secrets of ecology and nature.

Programming is available Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm. We invite you to use the extended day at no additional cost. Beacon Country Day School welcomes applicants regardless of their race, creed, color or national origin.

International Baccalaureate (IB) Preparation

The curriculum offers instruction for students interested in an IB high school program. This is an excellent, innovative liberal arts program, which lays the foundations for skills required for an IB high school program. All students in middle school benefit from this preparation.

Student Council and Community Service

Every child, first through eighth grade, participates in Student Council each year for a period of two months. Each of the four Councils researches and selects a school, community, or global project and must complete it within the two month period. Each Council is designed to facilitate leadership, communication, research, character, responsibility, altruism, compassion, global awareness, financial literacy, and learning both, how to get things done and how to make a difference. The list of contributions is extensive, and we are extraordinarily proud of our Student Council's achievements. Our approach to Student Council was presented at a National Association for Gifted Children Conference, and now serves as an innovative model across the nation.

Extracurricular Activities and Enrichment

To facilitate the development of the "whole child," extracurricular classes are offered: piano lessons, chess club, dance, art, sports enrichment, Spanish Enrichment, and golf.

Parent Association and Activities

Parents are an integral part of our school community, enriching and enhancing the life of the school in many ways. They act as volunteers on field trips, enrichment activities, and staff our library. The Ways and Means Committee raises funds annually for the school's wish list. Grocery store coupons are sold. An elegant, annual Beacon Ball is held, which is anticipated and greatly enjoyed by parents and faculty. The annual Fall Festival is a family event full of fun activities so families can get to know each other. Parents publish a quarterly school newsletter. The Committee of Care and Concern contacts new families, and provides help and support to Beacon families and faculty who may experience crises.

Summer Enrichment Program

School age children experience fun, exciting recreational activities, and academic enrichment in science, social studies, art, crafts, games, sports activities, music, drama, and computer science in order to maintain academic skills over the summer months. Continuous programming and summer enrichment fun are offered in Preschool and Junior Kindergarten.

Interpersonal Skills Development

Developing the “whole child” encompasses helping children learn how to understand people and how to interact and solve problems in a positive way. We teach and demonstrate on an ongoing basis, the concepts of Transactional Analysis, expressing feelings, making good choices, and being responsible. The development of excellent personal relationship skills and responsible behavior are of great importance and greatly enhance a child’s ability to function in any other environment at a high level. Understanding other human beings and being able to interact on a sophisticated level gives students a great advantage.