Orangeburg Preparatory Schools
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Upper Campus: 2651 North Road, NW Lower Campus: 168 Prep Drive, NE Orangeburg, South Carolina, Orangeburg County 29118 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°31′33″N 80°53′20″W / 33.52578°N 80.888798°W |
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| School type | Independent |
| Motto | Excellentia Educatione (Excellence in Education) |
| Established | December 1984 |
| Opened | August 1986 |
| Oversight | Board of Directors |
| Head teacher | Dr. Brian Newsome |
| Grades | PreK to 12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) | Red & Gray |
| Athletics conference | South Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association |
| Team name | Indians |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, South Carolina Independent School Association |
| Average SAT scores (2011) | 1599.73; |
| Average ACT scores (2011) | 22.32; |
| Newspaper | Tribal Talk |
| Yearbook | The Indian |
| Chairman | Michael Delaney |
| Vice Chairman | Jack Bryant |
| Treasurer | Chip Summers |
| Website | www |
Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc. is an independent, college-preparatory, coeducational day school enrolling students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Orangeburg Prep has two campuses: the Lower Campus, housing preschool to 5th grade; and the Upper Campus, housing grades 6 to 12. OPS also operates a year-round day care center on the Lower Campus. Orangeburg Prep was formed through the merger of two parent schools, Wade Hampton and Willington Academy.
Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc., seeks to provide a quality education which prepares students to meet the academic demands of college and to lead productive and fulfilling lives in a complex world.
Admission to Orangeburg Preparatory Schools is competitive. OPS seeks students with good character, diverse interests, and a willingness to work in a challenging environment. A prospective student’s admission is based upon previous academic records, recommendations, an interview, and an entrance examination.
Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization as defined by the IRS. It is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors. The current members of the Board of Directors are Michael Delaney (chairman of the board), Jack Bryant (vie chairman of the board, Chip Summers (treasurer), Angela Burroughs (director), Jimmy Evans (director), Gregg Frierson (director), Jimmy Guthrie (director), Karla Lambrecht (ATP representative), Bob McCurry (director), Leroy Ravenell (director), and Charles Thompson (director).
In the early 1960s, school desegregation was a major issue in the American South, including in South Carolina. Across the region, many local whites formed segregation academies — private, white-only schools designed to allow white children to be educated separate from blacks. Wade Hampton Academy, led by local chemical manufacturer T. Elliott Wannamaker, was such a segregation academy, founded in the fall of 1964 at the moment public schools in Orangeburg were to desegregate. (Wade Hampton II was the owner of the greatest number of slaves in the South before the Civil War; Wade Hampton III was a postbellum so-called Redeemer.)
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