[1][4] The 46-acre Stamford campus was sold to Clairol in 1963,[1][5] when the school moved to the Rock Ridge area of Greenwich, Connecticut.

[7] Its chapel was designed in the Middle English Gothic style by Theodore E. Blake of Carrère & Hastings.

The outbreak prompted an emergency quarantine and mass immunization, which successfully prevented polio from spreading to the rest of the state.

Daycroft asked for a variance to exempt the institution from needing to raze buildings and/or purchase additional land.

The variance was not given to the institution, but the Greenwich town government never enforced the requirements of the zoning up to the time Daycroft was disestablished.

That year, Daycroft sold the campus to the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai).