Kingswood Oxford is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory day school serving students in grades 6-12.…More The 500-plus students attend school on a campus located near West Hartford's Blue Back Square. The school puts an emphasis on educating leaders for the 21st century.</p> <p>Today's school is the result of a 1969 merger between Kingswood School, a boys school founded in 1916, and Oxford School, a girls school founded in 1909.</p>

Charter Oak International Academy is a magnet elementary school that has instituted an international Baccalaureate…More program. Students in West Hartford can apply for a spot at Charter Oak, which offers Spanish language instruction for grades K-5 and a global studies curriculum. Charter Oak's distinctive building dates back to 1927, and the school bears the name of the state's famed oak tree, allegedly the hiding place of Connecticut's first constitution. Colonists supposedly hid the document in the tree in 1687 to keep it from British agents.</p> <p> </p>