Shuford Green features walkways and landscaping between the Lower and Upper School sides of campus.
Our Campus
Our students benefit from two campuses—Cannon and Bissell—located approximately four miles apart, covering a combined 117 acres.
Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 situation, we are unable to host in-person tours on campus at this time. The slideshows below provide a quick overview of our two campuses and future spaces, along with opportunities to explore the world beyond campus.
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Cannon Campus
Cannon Campus is home to Lower School (grades JK–4) and Upper School (grades 9–12), as well as administrative offices.
The Hance Lower School Learning Center provides a wide array of multi-sensory learning opportunities designed for the needs of our youngest learners. It combines an extensive collection of books and resources for digital literacy with storytelling and instruction rooms and reading nooks in the Media Center.
The Design and Innovation Lab and the Makerspace engages young students with age-appropriate, hands-on problem-solving, collaboration, and design thinking.
Beginning in first grade, students learn keyboarding, software programs, and how to conduct research.
Housed in the Hance Lower School Learning Center, the Brock Center for Extended Day includes four dedicated flexible-use classrooms, a culinary corner, and a welcoming entrance to streamline pickup/dropoff.
Designed to foster community, collaboration, and wellness, the Dowd Student Center transforms the heart of Cannon Campus into a hub of student-centered activity, enhances educational programming, and includes our two age-appropriate dining halls.
Dawson Dining Hall, housed in the Dowd Student Center, provides age-appropriate spaces for our youngest students and is designed for the preparation of fresh and nutritious foods.
Students plant and harvest vegetables to share with others.
The Purdy Center for Science and Mathematics fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration and empowers hands-on, meaningful research by students and teachers. It includes eight dedicated lab spaces and offers ample gathering spaces and study lounges to promote collaborative learning and problem-solving.
The Purdy Center for Science and Mathematics includes eight dedicated lab spaces for chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering inquiry and design, and incorporates advanced technology to support high-level instruction and research.
Housed in the Dowd Student Center, the Michelle and Mike Bailey Upper School Dining Hall provides fresh and nutritious meals.
The interior of the 45,730-square-foot Hance Fine Arts Center is a work of art in itself. It is home to a 3-D art studio, blackbox theater, exhibit gallery, photo studio, music practice rooms and much more.
The Upper School Gazebo is a gathering space for students in grades 9-12.
Our main performance space, the Gorelick Family Theater seats approximately 400 and provides a wonderful home for more than 70 award-winning plays and musicals, concerts, special events, lectures, and assemblies each year for students and parents.
Housed by the Dowd Student Center, the BucsShop is located at the center of campus and features Country Day apparel.
Bissell Campus
Bissell Campus, located on Green Rea Road, is designed specifically for the education and development of Middle School students (grades 5–8).
Our distinctive campus just for middle school students provides many benefits. The Sklut Center is at the center of campus.
The Dowd Science building is equipped to support the Middle School's hands-on science program.
Large, airy lab/lecture-style classrooms are fully equipped to support the Middle School's hands-on science program.
Small class sizes are integral to the Country Day experience.
The Dougherty Library offers access to more than 10,000 books and non-print material through an automated online catalog. The school library/media program is an integral part of the instructional process. Students receive whole-class, small group, and one-on-one instruction and practice their skills through authentic activities and research.
Students begin to grow in responsibility and independence as they switch classes.
Many students arrive to Bissell Campus using our shuttle buses.
Our Community Garden supports the Middle School curriculum.
The outdoors is always nearby at Bissell Campus.
Students take general music or guitar in this music room located in the Sklut Center.
Daily physical education promotes wellness.
Future Spaces
Our planned enhancements to campus facilities ensures we create a distinctive learning environment and innovative learning spaces.
Modeled after the state-of-the-art learning commons at top universities, this multi-use academic center promotes collaboration as well as quiet study, while blending access to the latest information technology with traditional books and journals in the Mattei Commons. It also adds a new recording studio with audio and video equipment.
The 14,000 square foot John and Claudia Belk Upper School Learning Center offers indoor and outdoor learning spaces. It features reconfigurable furniture, flexible technology, and a wealth of study space options to accommodate all learning styles.
The 30,000 square foot Klein Family Natatorium will house an eight-lane, 25-yard competition pool, and a five-lane, 25-yard warm-up/activity pool, which will allow for aquatics programming at all age levels. Both pools will provide ample practice space for our Middle School and Varsity swim teams.
A 47,000 square foot state-of-the-art Performance Gymnasium will serve as our primary competition space for volleyball, basketball, and wrestling, with seating for over 1,200 spectators to cheer on our Bucs.
Our comprehensive Athletics Complex, including the Bruton Smith Athletic Center, will be utilized to its full potential of its original design. It will include the wrestling room, weight room, administrative offices, visitors' locker room space, a health and wellness area, and an increased workspace for physical education teachers and coaches.
Beyond Campus
A Country Day education extends beyond the classroom walls to offer experiential learning and community collaboration at all levels.
The Senior Externship Program is a one-day shadowing and mentoring experience that allows our students to explore a profession and gain an understanding of what a job entails. We have proudly partnered with more than 100 Charlotte-area employers and organizations to offer a wide breadth of offerings in numerous fields.
Students in fifth and sixth grade look forward to School in the Woods, a two-night trip that's a little bit education, a little bit class bonding, and a whole lot of fun.
The fourth-grade Oceanography Club takes a parent/student educational trip to the Outer Banks every June for four days.
Country Day piloted the high school mentoring program for Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2002. Nearly half the junior and senior class volunteer one lunch hour a week to be a friend to a young child.
