On Jan. 26, Country Day finished second in its division at the Folsom Jazz Festival. It was the school's first appearance in the festival since 2012 and its be...
Picture today’s Country Day campus: mostly walled and gated through the lower and middle school but unfenced in the high school — nothing separating the inside...
Former Octagon editor-in-chief Sonja Hansen, ’18, and seniors Chardonnay Needler and Harrison Moon recently received commendations from the Columbia Scholastic...
On Feb. 5 at McClatchy High School, junior Naomi Turnbull attended California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's Spanish-language rebuttal to President Donald T...
Whitney Gorton, ’04, is a middle school English teacher who has lived in Chicago for nearly three years. The school she teaches at was closed Jan. 30 and 31 du...
While the 2018-19 Winter Ball may not have a theme, it is sure to be night to remember. The ball will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Tsakopoulos Library G...
The Octagon has been named a finalist for the Online Pacemaker award by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA).
The online edition’s last nominat...
On Jan. 9, After-School Enrichment (ASE) had its first coding class from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the computer lab. The class, which meets every Wednesday, is avai...
For over 10 years, juniors in former English teacher Patricia Fels’ AP Language and Composition class wrote proposal essays in which they argued for a change i...
