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Programs
Harford Day offers a rigorous, academic curriculum for students of average to gifted abilities. Teachers have high expectations, but they also provide the support and encouragement that enable students to succeed. Emphasis is placed on mastering fundamental skills that will allow students to be successful beyond Harford Day. Small class sizes (generally 12 per class in math and English and 18 in other disciplines) allow teachers to give individual attention to each of their students.
Faculty provide written comments and hold conferences periodically, so that parents are thoroughly informed about their children's strengths, weaknesses, and progress. Students test well above grade level in annual standardized tests, and by eighth grade the median student is testing at a post-high school level.
 Almost all graduates of Harford Day attend selective, independent schools. Usually about half of the graduating class attends John Carroll School, an independent Catholic school in Bel Air, while most of the other graduates enroll in independent schools located in the Baltimore area. Some students choose to attend boarding schools, and one or two students from each class enter public high schools. Students often place into honors classes in high school.
Many Harford Day students have won academic awards and competitive scholarships to high schools. Students have been named MBNA Scholars (John Carroll), Wagley Scholars (St. Paul's School for Girls), Knott Scholars (various Catholic schools), and McDonogh Scholars (McDonogh School.) Harford Day graduates have won both academic and character awards at every independent school in the Baltimore area and at many non-local high schools.
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