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Since its inception, the mission of VES has been to give every student the attention and resources they need to achieve their complete potential in school, college and life. VES brings together a comprehensive curriculum, engaging faculty and staff and supportive community to effectively encourage, enable and guide any student towards full stature. On a beautiful 160-acre campus, the Virginia Episcopal School provides an atmosphere where students can thrive. Small classes and energizing teachers create an exciting and interactive environment.

Founded in 1842, Saint James School is a coeducational, Episcopal boarding and day school for grades 8-12 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Our students are self-confident, well-spoken, and prepared for college and life. Kind and moral, our students are inspired to lead for good. Here, every person is welcome, every voice is heard, and every perspective is valued. Our beautiful 800-acre campus is home to 240 students, with 75 percent boarding on campus. Small classes ensure engagement and mastery of the material. A variety of AP courses allow interested students to pursue subjects in greater depth. Saint James students grow by trying new things. We offer competitive sports, a wide variety of clubs, service opportunities, and an excellent fine arts program that includes drama, dance, music, and visual arts. We seek to enroll well-rounded applicants who are eager to participate in a wide range of activities and want close and positive relationships with their teachers and fellow students.

Join a community where boys are known, challenged, and loved. Woodberry is a school for boys who want something else, something more than they can get at home. It’s a school for boys who love a challenge and know that a hard thing is always worth doing. On our beautiful campus in the Virginia countryside, boys join an enduring community, develop friendships that last a lifetime, and gain a sense of self-confidence that is balanced by humility. They are mentored by teachers and coaches who devote their lives to the school and the boys who live and learn here. Together students and teachers pursue excellence in all areas of our community's life. Woodberry students graduate as young men who are becoming the very best versions of themselves. They graduate with a sense of honor and moral purpose, thanks to the uncommon experience they’ve had here together. Together Woodberry boys are shaping what it means to be a man in today’s ever-changing world.

The Bryn Mawr School is an independent, nonsectarian, college-preparatory school for girls from preschool through grade twelve. Within a nurturing environment, Bryn Mawr's rigorous academic curriculum inspires a passion for intellectual curiosity and emphasizes the delights and demands of learning. In the classical humanistic tradition, Bryn Mawr promotes the full development of mind, body, and spirit. A Bryn Mawr education is grounded in the expectation that young women will be resilient in the face of complexity, ambiguity, and change; will become responsible and confident participants in the world; and, will lead considered and consequential lives.

The Bullis School is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school offering girls and boys in grades 3 through 12 an educational program of excellence in a community that values integrity, respect, responsibility, diversity and service. A caring and supportive faculty fosters a positive attitude about learning and challenges our students to achieve their highest potential in academics, the arts and athletics.

St. Albans School is an Episcopal, college preparatory school for boys in Washington, DC. Founded in 1909, the School is located on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral, and is dedicated to fostering the spiritual, intellectual, and physical development of its students. St. Albans challenges its students to achieve excellence and to embrace responsibility, and it expects them to act always with honor and to respect and care for others.

Our commitment is to develop in a caring community an individual who seeks excellence and embraces the "Driving Spirit" of Flint Hill School. At the heart of the Flint Hill philosophy is the belief that the community life of the school inspires students to respect individual differences in social, intellectual, racial and religious backgrounds while enjoying the rich experience of being bound together by service to the shared life of the school. Students who establish deep and lasting friendships through caring for others, who take responsibility for maintaining the high quality of campus life, will experience a truth of lasting value: that the Flint Hill experience is not merely a stepping stone to college, but one that has lifelong meaning and deep satisfaction.

Friends School of Baltimore is a private coeducational Quaker school founded in 1784 and serving students in Pre-K through 12th grade. "You can always tell a Friends kid." That's what college admissions officers, business leaders, and families, like yours, tell us. It's in the confidence, maturity, and sense of purpose they bring to every learning situation-whether in the classroom, on the playing field, on stage, or out in the community, where they work to bring about positive change. Visit our vibrant campus and see for yourself how Friends develops not just great minds, but great people.

idwell Friends School is an educational community inspired by the values of the Religious Society of Friends and guided by the Quaker belief in "That of God" in each person. We seek academically talented students of diverse cultural, racial, religious and economic backgrounds. We offer these students a rich and rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum designed to stimulate creative inquiry, intellectual achievement and independent thinking in a world increasingly without borders.

St. Timothy’s is a private, all-girls boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12, offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (DP) and Middle Years Program (MYP). Our goal is to prepare students for lives of meaning and consequence by providing a comprehensive and flexible academic program in a supportive, richly resourced, and beautiful setting.

Miller School of Albemarle is a coeducational boarding and day school for grades 8-12 and post-graduate students. It is located on a 1600-acre campus at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with a 12-acre lake for swimming and boating. The college-preparatory curriculum emphasizes educating the mind, hands, and heart within a challenging yet supportive setting. Classes average 10-12 students. All students participate in daily afternoon activities (athletics or theater) and a variety of semi-monthly faculty-led community service programs on- and off-campus.

St. Andrew`s Episcopal School endeavors to provide a comprehensive co-educational college preparatory program for preschool through twelfth grade in an inclusive environment that embodies the faith and perspective of the Episcopal Church. The school seeks a broadly diverse community to promote educational excellence. St. Andrew`s programs are designed to serve students of varied interests and abilities capable of achievement in a challenging academic environment. To create such an environment, St. Andrew`s supports a dedicated faculty and administration who respect and appreciate students. St. Andrew`s strives to challenge and support all of its students in a balanced program to nurture their academic, artistic, athletic, and spiritual growth. The school believes that developing each individual`s intellect, character, and sense of self-worth encourages each to live a creative and compassionate life. Because St. Andrew`s values the benefits of community, the school encourages students to lead lives of responsibility to each other and to the larger community.

Burke is an urban, co-educational, independent, college preparatory school that provides a challenging curriculum in a warm and supportive environment. We welcome students of varied backgrounds and diverse gifts, each of whom we believe capable of important intellectual growth and academic achievement. Burke currently serves over 315 students in grades 6 - 12. The average class size is 15, and the faculty-student ratio is 1:7. Edmund Burke School consciously brings together students who are different from one another in many ways, actively engages them in their own education, has high expectations for them, gives them power and responsibility, and supports and advances their growth as skilled and independent thinkers who step forward to make positive contributions to the world in which they live. At Burke, we are certain that education's mission rests in how we teach as well as in what we teach. Some of the most significant learning results from the vital human connection between teachers and students as caring individuals with complimentary goals.

At Foxcroft, young women discover and enhance their academic and personal strengths in a community where 80% of the faculty lives on campus. Students from 20 states and 8 countries (64% boarding) enjoy a rigorous curriculum enriched by events such as the Goodyear Fellow Program, a two-week interim program, Niblack Lecture Series, and the Poetry Festival. With a 7:1 student/faculty ratio and an average class size of 10, the faculty emphasizes collaboration, a proven way that girls learn best. The 500-acre campus is 50 miles west of Washington, D.C.

Bishop O'Connell High School is a Catholic coeducational community located in Arlington, Virginia. The spiritual atmosphere is enriched by the presence of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our mission is to provide students an education rooted in the life of Christ and to foster the pursuit of excellence in the whole person. We believe in the full development of the human person, including the spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical aspects of one's being. Commitment to academic excellence is an integral part of our identity as a Catholic school. We believe that students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process, and when each student has appropriate opportunities for success. We believe that student self-esteem is enhanced by positive relationships and mutual respect among and between students and faculty; that students thrive in a supportive yet stimulating climate which affirms the dignity of all persons; and that we are called to educate students of diverse economic, cultural, religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.

At Chatham Hall, we believe that when a young woman steps beyond her comfort zone, she realizes the true power of her potential and finds her most authentic self. Every day across campus, students discover their individual passions, learn to balance joy with challenge, gratitude with ambition, and champion each other as they begin to weave together informed perspectives that will make up their worldview. With endless opportunities illuminated before them, our students feel confident taking the first steps toward a life that is all their own.

We know sending your child to a boarding school is a big decision. St. Anne's-Belfield School is more than just a boarding school; it's a welcoming community focused on supporting every student to reach their full personal and academic potential. while exploring what lies beyond their comfort zone. Our students are encouraged to push themselves beyond their comfort zone and to work hard to achieve lofty goals. First and foremost, we provide our students with rigorous academics so that they are well prepared to succeed at the most prestigious colleges and universities around the world. Our students are given freedom and independence paired with appropriate guidance, support, and mentorship. We are an inclusive community that appreciates diversity, and we expect our students to treat everyone with respect and kindness. Charlottesville, Virginia is home to the University of Virginia, one of the top 25 universities in America, and is rife with history, culture, museums, restaurants, and performance venues. Our campus is also located near Shenandoah National Park and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, which offer breathtaking outdoor activities. St. Anne's-Belfield provides students with the rigorous and academic focus as well as countless opportunities to make connections and explore beyond the classroom in the local community and environment. For many families considering boarding school for their students, St. Anne's-Belfield is an incredible choice which will prepare them for success both in college and beyond.

St. Anselm’s Abbey School is an independent, Roman Catholic day school for boys with demonstrated academic ability in grades 6 – 12. Students at St. Anselm’s establish a solid foundation in the liberal arts through a rigorous classical education. The school was founded in 1942 by Benedictine monks¡£The focus of St. Anselm’s is not purely on academics; the richly philosophical nature of the school enables great personal and social growth among the individuals and the community. A St. Anselm’s education does not simply prepare a boy for college but also for life as a considerate and thoughtful man.

Empowering students to achieve their fullest potential and live lives of purpose—this has been the core of Garrison Forest School since its founding in 1910. What was an innovative educational mission for girls at the turn of the 20th century remains so in the 21st century. Throughout our history, our mission has been to prepare young women for a rewarding college experience and for a purposeful life well beyond. Guided by our motto, Esse Quam Videri—To Be Rather Than To Seem—Garrison Forest's curricular and co-curricular program balances exceedingly high standards within a welcoming, spirited atmosphere. Located outside of Baltimore, the school's park-like campus offers collegiate-quality academic, athletic, arts and residential facilities. Our innovative partnership with The Johns Hopkins University, the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, matches students with a Hopkins professor and lab to conduct research in science and engineering. Students may apply to be a Jenkins Fellow for an in-depth service learning project of their choice. Our new Equine and Veterinary Science program, expanded Robotics program, arts offerings, competitive interscholastic athletics (including riding and Polo at the national levels) and many clubs meet every interest, broaden horizons and provide leadership development. With Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New York City and other Mid-Atlantic cities and states nearby, students enjoy a variety of weekend activities. Here, students flourish intellectually and individually, find their voice, discover their passions and embrace their potential.