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Funding type
  
Private

Enrollment
  
432

Mascot
  
Fighting Owls

Founded
  
1996

Lowest grade
  
Pre-kindergarten

Grades
  
PS–12

Phone
  
+1 540-253-7500

Number of students
  
432

Color
  
Red and White

Wakefield School

Rivals
  
Highland School, Wakefield Country Day School

Website
  
www.wakefieldschool.org

Address
  
4439 Old Tavern Rd, The Plains, VA 20198, USA

Profiles

Isaiah t sharp 6 4 wing class of 2015 the wakefield school


Wakefield School is an independent day school located in The Plains, Virginia, with classes ranging from junior kindergarten to 12th grade. It was founded in Huntly, Virginia in 1972 as Wakefield Country Day School, and changed its name to Wakefield School in the early 1980s when it established a small boarding department (boarding was discontinued after a few years). After a disagreement with the founders of the school, the half of the board of trustees moved the school from the Huntly location and re-founded the school at Marshall, Virginia in 1991, and moved later to Archwood Farm in The Plains (the first campus owned by the board of trustees) in 1996. However, the original campus, headed by the original founders, continues to operate as a separate school, Wakefield Country Day School. Between 1996 and today, Wakefield grew from a school of 240 students to the current enrollment of about 450 as the campus was developed.

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Wakefield School was first accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools in 2001. It counts among its graduates more than 800 alumni: 1980-1991 from the Huntly campus, 1992-1996 from the Marshall campus, and 1997-the present from The Plains campus. Significant alums include reddit.com and hipmunk.com cofounder Steven Huffman '01.

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References

Wakefield School Wikipedia


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