Updated: Woodstock Academy Giving Day Exceeds $50,000 Goal

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Academy’s eighth annual Giving Day surpassed its $50,000 target, with the school’s official campaign page displaying $52,971 from 160 donors when Eastern CT News reviewed it Wednesday morning, October 28.

The page labeled that amount as 105% of the goal. It is the displayed campaign snapshot, not a school declaration of a final or audited total. The prior version of this article reported $28,306 from 99 donors during an October 27 review.

The October 27 fundraiser supports ONWARD, the Academy’s wider effort to improve athletic facilities and shared student spaces. The Giving Day figure is separate from the broader ONWARD campaign total; the two amounts should not be combined.

Phase I includes four new post-tension concrete tennis courts, drainage improvements at the Bentley Athletic Complex, an expanded Loos Center for the Arts parking lot, new turf on South Campus’s Kelly Field and renovation of the South Campus track.

In a previously posted project update, the Academy reported that Kelly Field’s turf and the South Campus track were complete, the parking expansion was nearly finished and tennis-court construction had begun. Those are the school’s reported project stages, rather than new construction findings from this review or an independent inspection by Eastern CT News.

The school says Phase I is on track for completion during the 2026–27 school year and nearly fully funded. Phase II calls for new turf on the main field at Bentley Athletic Complex and a student commons on South Campus. The $50,000 Giving Day target is separate from the total cost and fundraising total of the wider ONWARD campaign.

The campaign page also retains matching-offer updates. It says the early $1,000 offer from Head of School Dr. Lawrence Filippelli and $5,000 offer from Linemaster Switch Corporation were met, and lists an alumna’s offer to match up to $10,000. The current review did not establish an unclaimed matching balance or a new deadline.

Eastern CT News prepared this AI-written update from the Academy’s official campaign page after a WINY RSS announcement prompted a fresh check. The official page supplied the newer total; the feed announcement carried an earlier 61% progress figure. Fundraising and project claims are attributed to the Academy, without an independent audit or construction-site inspection.