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St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)

St. Albans School
Saint Albans logo.jpg
Address
3001 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
USA
Coordinates 38°55′43″N 77°4′17″W / 38.92861°N 77.07139°W / 38.92861; -77.07139Coordinates: 38°55′43″N 77°4′17″W / 38.92861°N 77.07139°W / 38.92861; -77.07139
Information
Type Private, Day & Boarding, College-prep
Motto Pro Ecclesia et Pro Patria
("For Church and Country")
Religious affiliation(s) Episcopal
Established 1909
Sister school National Cathedral School for Girls
Headmaster Vance Wilson
Faculty 100~
Grades 412
Gender Boys
Enrollment 575
543 day
32 boarding
Student to teacher ratio 7:1
Campus Urban
Athletics conference Interstate Athletic Conference
DCSAA
Team name Bulldogs
Accreditation MSA
AIMS MD-DC
Website

St. Albans School (STA) is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in grades 4–12, located in Washington, D.C. The school is named after Saint Alban, traditionally regarded as the first British martyr. Within the St. Albans community, the school is commonly referred to as "S-T-A." It enrolls approximately 545 day students from grades 4 through 12, approximately 30 boarding students from grades 9 through 12, and is affiliated with the National Cathedral School for Girls (NCS) and the co-ed Beauvoir School – The National Cathedral Elementary School for PreKindergarten-3 students, all of which are located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral on Mount St. Alban in Washington. St. Albans, along with its affiliated schools on the Cathedral Close and the Washington National Cathedral, are members of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation.

The school was founded in 1909, with $300,000 ($7.2 million in 2015 dollars) in funding bequeathed by Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of President James Buchanan. Initially, it was a school for boy choristers to the Washington National Cathedral, a program that the school continues today.

The school mascot is the bulldog, a symbol adopted under the school’s fourth headmaster, Canon Charles S. Martin, because of Martin’s fondness for his pet bulldogs. The St. Albans motto, "Pro Ecclesia et Pro Patria," translates to "For Church and Country." St. Albans requires all students to attend Chapel twice a week in The Little Sanctuary. The school seeks to develop in its students a sense of moral responsibility through Chapel, its Honor Code, and a co-curricular social service program.

A 2004 article in the Wall Street Journal found that among U.S. schools, St. Albans had the 11th-highest success rate in placing graduates at 10 selective universities. In 2012, St. Albans sent 24 out of its 75 graduates, or 32%, to an Ivy league School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or Stanford, making its matriculation one of the best in the country. The class of 2013 similarly fared well, with 21 graduates attending Ivy League schools or Stanford and 2 each attending the University of Chicago and the United States Military Academy. From the 76 member class of 2014, 16 headed to the Ivy League, 2 to Stanford, 1 to Duke, and 4 to the University of Chicago.


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