The Westminster Schools
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Seal of The Westminster Schools.
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1424 West Paces Ferry Road (Buckhead) Atlanta, Georgia 30327 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°50′39″N 84°26′10″W / 33.84426°N 84.436242°WCoordinates: 33°50′39″N 84°26′10″W / 33.84426°N 84.436242°W |
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| School type | Private |
| Motto | "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." (Luke 2:52) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
| Denomination | Non-denominational |
| Established | 1951; traces origins to 1878 |
| President | Keith Evans |
| Dean | Mr. Tony Souza, Ms. Tiffany Boozer |
| Chaplain | Rev. David Charney |
| Faculty | 271 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Enrollment | 1,856 |
| • Kindergarten | c65 |
| • Grade 1 | c70 |
| • Grade 2 | c75 |
| • Grade 3 | c80 |
| • Grade 4 | c85 |
| • Grade 5 | c90 |
| • Grade 6 | c170 |
| • Grade 7 | c185 |
| • Grade 8 | c190 |
| • Grade 9 | c200 |
| • Grade 10 | c200 |
| • Grade 11 | c200 |
| • Grade 12 | c200 |
| Hours in school day | 6 hrs. 30 min. |
| Campus size | 180 acres (0.73 km2), suburban |
| School colour(s) | Forest Green and White |
| Song | "Westminster, Love We Thee" |
| Mascot | Wildcat |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
| Team name | Wildcats |
| Rival | The Lovett School |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Average SAT scores | 1920-2210 (2014) |
| Average ACT scores | 28-33 (2014) |
| Newspaper | The Westminster Bi-Line |
| Yearbook | Lynx |
| Endowment | $274 million |
| Tuition | $21,070 (Pre-First-5) $24,435 (6-12) |
| Revenue | $49,287,690 |
| Graduates | 199 (2014) |
| Alumni | 9,927 |
| Grades | Pre-First through 12 |
| Website | The Westminster Schools |
The Westminster Schools is a private school (Pre-First–12) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, founded in 1951 and tracing its origins to 1878. In 2008, the school had the largest endowment of any non-boarding school in the United States.
Westminster originated in 1951 as a reorganization of Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian School (NAPS), a girls' school and an affiliate of the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. William L. Pressly of Chattanooga, Tennessee's McCallie School served as Westminster's first president. The school moved to its current campus in 1953 as the result of a land grant by trustee Fritz Orr.
Also in 1953, Washington Seminary, another private school for girls, founded by two of George Washington's great-nieces in 1878, merged with Westminster. The resulting school was co-educational until the sixth grade, with separate schools for boys and girls continuing through the twelfth grade, a practice that continued until 1986 and provided the basis of Westminster's plural name.
In the mid-1950s, Westminster became a test site for a new advanced studies program that would later become the College Board's Advanced Placement program. In 1962, the administration building, later named Pressly Hall, was constructed, bringing the number of permanent buildings on campus to four. Three years later, in 1965, Westminster became one of the first southern private schools to integrate, four years after Atlanta Public Schools integrated by federal order in 1961. Four African American students graduated in 1972. Until 1978, the school also operated as a boarding school.
In 2006 the school ran a campaign attempting to raise $100 million to further increase its endowment size. The campaign was at the time the third-largest ever for an independent school in the United States.
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