Heights Country Day School

**Heights Country Day**, or **Country Day** for short, is the private school the Hawthorne boys attend. When Avery Grambs inherits Tobias Hawthorne's fortune, she is enrolled as well.

## Description

Country Day's campus looks less like a high school, and more like a college or a museum. It has seemingly endless resources. The entrance to the main building is marked by twin archways. Picturesque woods are on the back side of the campus. Oren signed off on the school's security when the Hawthorne boys first enrolled. The boys's uniform includes a burgundy blazer with a navy crest embossed with the school motto in Latin, pants, and dress shoes. The girls's uniform includes the same burgundy blazer and a pleated plaid skirt.

Country Day uses modular scheduling, which means they operate on a six-day cycle, despite the school week being five days. Classes meet anywhere from three to five times a cycle. Because of this type of scheduling, students must make sure they have time for lunch every day in their schedule. Module scheduling leaves students with random pockets of free time throughout the day. The school has multiple dance studios, a darkroom, and more than one gymnasium. Country Day has a study abroad program for seniors. Many of the electives are unique. One example is Making Meaning. The class focuses on the study of how meaning is conveyed through the arts and includes a strong component of civic engagement with local museums, artists, theater productions, the ballet company, the opera, and so on. Heights Country Day requires that every student play a sport. The lockers are made of wood and don't have locks, a subtle way of saying the rich don't steal.

The cafeteria is called the refectory and the library is called the archive. The refectory doesn't look like a high school cafeteria. Long wooden tables stretch the length of the room, portraits hang on the walls, the ceilings are high and arching, and the windows are made of stained glass. Like the rest of the school, the library could easily belong on a university campus. The room is full of archways and stained glass. Its door is made of thick wood. Countless shelves are brimming with books of every kind. At the center of the room there are a dozen rectangular tables that are state of the art with lights built in an enormous magnifying glasses attached to the sides. The physics laboratory looks like it belongs at NASA. The Art Center contains multiple studios, and the Black Box Theater. The Black Box Theater is an enormous square room with black walls, a black floor, and stage lights built into a black ceiling. The room is built for acoustics and for voices to carry. Jameson likes to hit golf balls off the roof of the Art Center building.

### Known Locations

* Dr. McGowan's Office
* Laboratories
* Dance Studios
* Darkroom
* Gymnasiums
* Refectory
* The Archive
* Physics Laboratory
* The Art Center
* The Main Building
* The Quad

### Known Classes

* American Studies
* Philosophy of Mindfulness
* Making Meaning
* Calculus
* Physics

### Known Students

* Grayson Hawthorne (graduated)
* Jameson Hawthorne
* Alexander Hawthorne
* Thea Calligaris
* Rebecca Laughlin
* Emily Laughlin (previously)
* Avery Grambs