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Huntty, Virginia 22640 703-635-8111 Open House and Admissions Placement Testing (GradesK-12) May 14,1988 Doors open at 8:30 AM
THE AREA’S TOP ACADEMIC SCHOOL The Primary School (Pre-K, K, and Grades 1 -3) The Grammar School (Grades 4-7) The Preparatory School (Grades 8-12) At Wakefield, the major goal of education is the intellectual formation of the child. The results have been high achievement, creativity, and self confidence. Wakefield juniors and seniors consistently have median SAT scores that are among the highest in the nation, and in 1986-87, Wakefield had the highest percentile of National Merit Finalists in its senior class of any school, public or private, in Virginia. The Wakefield Math Team won the district championship; French students took top awards; and the student literary magazine Talisman won, for the fourth year in a row, national recognition at the Columbia School of Journalism. These awards and distinctions are typical of Wakefield student achievement. Wakefield offers the following: • A safe, caring, and friendly environment of small classes and dedicated teachers. e An elementary program which stresses the basics, with a comprehensive examination at the end of Grade 7 that insures student mastery of elementary skills and content. e A high school curriculum that includes 12 Advanced Placement courses in all major subjects. • An unusually strong high school English program which emphasizes reading comprehension, literary analysis, composition, grammmar, and vocabulary. • Foreign language instruction (through advanced level) in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin, and Homeric Greek, e Required courses in history. Logic, and philosophy. • Inter-scholastic teams in soccer, field hockey, volleyball, skiing, basketball, track and cross-country, lacrosse, and tennis, e Annual summer program in Devonshire, England, and opportunities for foreign travel each year during spring holiday. e Impressive placement in the Ivy Leagues, MIT, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, U.Va., William and Mary, Stanford, and others. Wakefield runs busses from Warreton, New Baltimore, Haymarket, the Plains, Marshall, Upperville, and Markham. Also from Front Royal, Winchester, Berryville, Charles Town (W.Va.), Woodstock, Luray, and Culpeper. Wakefield’s admissions policy is non-discriminatory in regard to sex, race, religion and country of national origin. T
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