St. Anne's-Belfield School

St. Anne's-Belfield School is a co-educational, independent boarding and day school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

The school is located on 49 acres (200,000 m²)^[1] in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, near the campus of the University of Virginia.

History

The goal of its founders was to provide for their daughters the academic opportunities offered to their sons by the University of Virginia. In 1910 the Reverend Henry B. Lee, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, persuaded his vestry to purchase the institute. Reopened as St. Anne's School, it became part of the Episcopal diocese system and continued at its downtown location until 1939, when it was moved to the present upper and middle school campus. In 1985 the school became independent of the diocese.

Like St. Anne's, the coeducational elementary school's origins were downtown, where in 1911 Miss Nancy Gordon opened a primary school known first as Miss Nancy's and then as Stonefield. After her death, it was merged with University Country Day School (the Bellair School) and renamed The Belfield School in 1957.

In 1975, after a five-year trial period, St. Anne's and Belfield officially merged. The school has an honor system ( “A student is not to lie, cheat or steal.”) and weekly chapel services. Service to the local community promotes the same awareness for social and global issues, as did rolling bandages for the war effort in the 1940s.

Accreditation and affiliations

Accreditation:

• The Virginia Association of Independent Schools

Affiliations:

• The Association of Boarding Schools
• The Council for Advancement and Support of Education
• The Educational Records Bureau
• The National Association of College Admission Counselors
• The National Association of Independent Schools
• The Secondary School Admission Test Board

Campus

St. Anne's-Belfield School is a college preparatory school located on two campuses totaling 49 acres (200,000 m²) of land. The Greenway Rise Campus, located on Ivy Road, is home to the Upper School (grades 9th to 12th), as well as the Administrative, Arts, and Alumni/Development buildings. These buildings, located on the Upper School campus, include the James F. Scott Center For Arts & Science, Randolph Hall & Annex and the Lee-DuVal Hall. The Belfield Campus is home to the Lower School (pre-kindergarten to fourth grade), Middle School (grades 5th to 8th), the Conway Convocation Center, the Tarring Gym, and the athletic fields. St. Anne's-Belfield has six buildings housing its 97 classrooms (including three computer labs and eight science labs), two libraries, and three gymnasiums on two campuses which total 49 acres (200,000 m²). Recent additions include a 105,000-square-foot (9,800 m²) Learning Village, a Squash Court Complex, and a state-of-the-art turf athletic field.

Notable alumni

• Schuyler Fisk (Singer, songwriter, and actress. Daughter of Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek.)
• Chris Long (American Football player for the New England Patriots) ^[2]
• Kyle Long (American Football player for the Chicago Bears)
• Tom Perriello (Former U.S. Representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district)
• Anne-Marie Slaughter (1976) (Scholar, lawyer, government official)^[3]

Notes

External links

• St. Anne's-Belfield School