Bennett Day School
Description provided by the business.The world is evolving fast, and Bennett is built for what’s next. Guided by expert educators, learning is relevant, rigorous, and personal. Students build real-world solutions and essential capabilities through project-based work, public demonstrations, and internships. Taking full ownership of their learning, they connect big ideas across disciplines. Focusing on mastery over memorization, students are assessed on core competencies, building living portfolios showing real progress and depth. Bennett graduates are confident, capable learners who thrive at top universities worldwide.
Openings Now
Immediate Openings in full day, year round two-year-old, Bambini program.
Location Info
955 W Grand Ave
Chicago, IL 60642
Accreditations
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Cognia
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NAIS
Financial Aid
- Offers Financial Aid
- Scholarships
- Sibling Discount
- Sliding Fee Scale
Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
- Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Location Details
- Staff can administer medication.
- Counselor available on site.
- Staff are CPR certified.
- Staff are first aid certified.
- Health screenings are available at this location.
- Nurse available on site.
- Outdoor play space is available.
- Program includes field trips.
- No religious affiliation.
Programs Offered
Bambini
Pre-Kindergarten Program
Schedules
Full Time
Calendar
School Year
Languages Taught
English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Potty Training
Required
Description
Our school is built around the idea of a responsive curriculum. Careful observers of children’s curiosity and interests, our educators use those observations to generate long-term projects and questions for the children based upon their individual and collective ideas and wonderings.
Education Types
- Academic-Based
- Blended Curriculum
- Project-Based
- Reggio Emilia
- STEAM
Lower School
Schedules
Full Time
Calendar
School Year
Languages Taught
English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Description
Our Lower School curriculum awakens and guide students' natural curiosity as they embark on a profound journey of exploration through culture, language, mathematics, science and engineering, and literature.
Education Types
- Academic-Based
- Creative Curriculum
- Play-Based
- Project-Based
- Reggio Emilia
- STEAM
Middle School
Schedules
Full Time
Calendar
School Year
Languages Taught
English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Description
Our Middle School is personalized through the design of the advisory program, providing individualized opportunities for goal-setting guidance and social emotional development. The middle school experience is project-based, integrating disciplines through authentic, student-centered experiences.
Education Types
- Academic-Based
- Blended Curriculum
- Project-Based
- Reggio Emilia
- STEAM
Upper School
Schedules
Full Time
Calendar
School Year
Languages Taught
English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Description
Bennett Upper School is built differently. Students spend months on a single cross-disciplinary project, one that starts with a topic they care about. They research, collaborate, iterate, and present their work to an audience that isn’t just their teacher. The result is learning that sticks.
Education Types
- Academic-Based
- Blended Curriculum
- Emergent
- Project-Based
- Reggio Emilia
- STEAM
Parent Reviews
Bennett Day school has not only offered and exceptional learning experience for our children, but a wonderful community for our family. From the staff to all of the families, we feel lucky to be in the midst of people that value children and preparing them for the world they are to face. They not only teach social emotional and critical thinking skills, but the education in traditional subjects is fantastic. My kids live TesLab and project based learning.
