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WILTON — Schoolhouse Academy, a private school that plans to open this fall in a former parochial school building, will offer an academic model in which classes are guided more by academic levels than by students' ages, according to its leaders...

Schoolhouse Academy Co-Founders, Carlo Schiattarella & Andrew McLaughlin, join Lisa Wexler to discuss their new private school in Wilton, a project based, hands-on learning model that incorporates a STEM and art focused curriculum, in a technology rich environment.

WILTON — Shared enthusiasm for an educational vision they hope to create — coupled with some serendipity — has led two men to Wilton to start their ideal private school.

Schoolhouse Academy is making plans to open at the former Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Academy, which shut down last year. The building is located on the grounds of the church of the same name at 229 Danbury Road.

The new private school is not a religious academy nor is it affiliated with the church. But leasing the decades-old building to the new tenant school is a win-win situation for the church.

With the recent spate of medical spaces and apartment buildings planned along the Rte. 7 corridor, the property at 225 Danbury Rd. owned by Our Lady of Fatima (OLF) and the Catholic Church’s Bridgeport Diocese sitting empty since OLF Catholic Academy closed last year could have been ripe for commercial development.

But instead, a group of charter school developers has struck a deal to lease the building and, by August 2024, they plan to open a private school there geared to children in pre-K through sixth grade, with hopes to eventually grow it through eighth grade as well.