Together Campaign
The DCD Capital Campaign
Together
The Together Campaign builds off the priorities established by the school’s 2019 Strategic Plan. That plan crafted a vision for elevating DCD’s child-centric learning model, including creating new spaces to strengthen our ability to gather as a community and support our whole-child program.
With the new Lower School Science Room fully operational in support of our science program, and the successful completion of our $15 million campaign, our remaining top priority is construction of a new theater that provides an appropriate space for our performing arts program and a place where the whole school can gather for assemblies and other purposes.
In the Spring of 2025, we said goodbye to the existing Lowell Center and began construction on our new theater! Follow along on this page to watch our progress, and we look forward to gathering soon in these new spaces Together.
Campaign Priorities
Lower School Science Room
To give teachers and students the space to explore
Expanded Theater Space
To gather community at the heart of our school
Strengthened Endowment
To ensure a strong future for those who follow us
Our Progress to Date
Construction Begins
Recognizing the importance of all that came before us, we’re also looking forward to what comes next. In the summer of 2025, we began demolition of the Lowell Center and surrounding areas in order to pave the way for the next phase of the Together campaign— the construction of a new theater to form the heart of our school, our foremost gathering space and performance venue. For years, our theater has been home to countless special moments, and has helped DCD students gain self-assurance and self-possession. Our newly designed theater will be more comfortable, functional, and integrated with adjacent spaces, offering increased capacity, an abundance of natural light, and better sight lines for audience members.
Farewell to the Lowell Center
In the spring of 2025, our DCD community— past and present— gathered together to bid farewell to the Lowell Center, a space that has had a profound impact on generations of students to grace its stage. With stories, speeches, and performances from alumni, past Heads of School, and current students, this entertaining and touching event was the perfect way to close the curtain on the Lowell Center.
We Reached Our Goal— Together
DCD celebrated an amazing night during our Annual Meeting in October of 2024, when our community gathered to celebrate DCD’s Together Capital Campaign reaching its $15,000,000 goal! This achievement will enable us to transform our gathering spaces, including a beautifully reimagined Lowell Center. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this special night and to all those who helped bring it to life: including our teachers, our staff, our community members, and our parent volunteers!
A New Lower School Science Room
Science is fundamental to a DCD education for students of all ages. We’ve always included it in our Lower School curriculum—biology, geology, and environmental science. Until recently, students through fifth grade have needed to either borrow Middle School science rooms or rely on science carts delivered to their classrooms. But thanks to a generous grandparent and our Together Campaign, we opened the new Lower School Science room in Spring 2022. Featuring a range of age-appropriate tools and materials and a seamless connection with the outdoors, this space offers teachers and students more opportunities to connect and explore.
Community
Bringing DCD Together
At the heart of our campaign is our desire to bring the DCD community together in as many ways as possible. We witnessed the power of this at our formal campaign launch event, held in November 2023 at the ‘Quin in Boston. Current families and board members came together with alumni and past friends to share in a night of celebration, reflecting back on past campaigns, placing side-by-side the valuable history of DCD with their present experiences, and considering the bright future still to come.
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Together, we can build a strong foundation for DCD’s future. Reach out to us with any questions, or for more information on how you can help.