Hindley School is one of five public elementary schools in Darien, Connecticut, serving about 550 pupils from kindergarten through Grade 5. A part of Darien Public Schools, Hindley sits at 10 Nearwater Lane (at the intersection of Nearwater Lane and the Boston Post Road) in the Noroton section of Darien.

Overview

Hindley's school day lasts from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Hindley Husky is the official mascot and appears on the mural at the schools cafeteria. Parents of Hindley students have set up a weekly emailed newsletter dubbed "The WIRE", which describes upcoming events.

Hindley has a school orchestra, band and chorus which together give a holiday concert each December. For decades also the band chourus and orchestra perform in a spring concert where in 2011 the advanced orchestra gave one of the best Hindley performances ever. The Hindley Happening, a small fair, has been held each spring on the school grounds.

The school district's Early Learning Program (ELP), a special education program for preschool children as young as three years old, is run from classrooms at Hindley. The program needed a new classroom as of late 2007, when the town Board of Education began considering whether or not to move the ELP to the new Tokeneke School, where a new school building provides more space. Splitting up the program between Hindley and Tokeneke was another idea under consideration. Any move, if it happened, would likely take place in the summer of 2008, district officials said.