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Founded in 1967, Gaston Day School is a non-sectarian, college-preparatory school for grades Preschool through 12 with approximately 500 students and 65 full and part-time faculty and staff. Gaston Day attracts students from a five-county area, including Gaston, Mecklenburg, Lincoln, Cleveland, and York, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is also a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the Southern Association of Independent Schools, and the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools and approved by the North Carolina Department of Education. Our mission is to educate our students and prepare them for academic success and responsible, productive lives. To be the finest independent day school in the southeastern United States. Our core beliefs: The student is at the center of everything we do. The growth of the student is our foremost consideration. The faculty will be highly qualified, professional and care deeply about each student’s academic success and personal growth. The school is committed to developing our faculty and academic administrators into leaders in independent school education. The curriculum will be inspiring, dynamic, and promote academic excellence, critical thinking, creative application, physical development, and personal integrity. Further, it will reflect the best educational theory and practice, entertain innovation, and prepare our middle and upper school students to compete successfully in local, regional, and national competitions. The school must be a place that keeps students safe physically and emotionally and promotes our community values. Gaston Day School Spartans pursue scholarship and knowledge as a means to…create solutions, collaborate, and drive innovation within their world, discover their unique talents and ignite their passions, embrace their humanity and diversity, approach opportunities and challenges with self-motivation and resilience, achieve a life of curiosity, balance, and purpose. Students come to Gaston Day with a wide range of musical interests, talents, and aspirations. The music curriculum is designed to expose students to the study and practice of music. As such, our students are trained in the foundations of singing, movement, improvisation, reading, writing, and performing. In middle school, students have the opportunity to play in an instrumental ensemble, which includes woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, and guitar. Private lessons are also available from professional musicians who are contracted through the school. Students may also choose to sing in the Middle School Chorus or the Upper School Vocal Performance Ensemble. Over the past six years, our chorus students have been recognized as “superior” in regional adjudications. They have earned entrance into the North Carolina School of the Arts as well as Governor’s School. The Gaston Day chorus has performed at St. Mary Le Bow, Canterbury Cathedral, and participated in a joint concert with the Westminster Youth Orchestra. View full school