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Christchurch School is a boarding school for boys and girls in grades 9-12 located on the Rappahannock River in Virginia.

Christchurch School is a private college-preparatory coeducational boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia. Near the colonial port town of Urbanna, Virginia and located on a 125-acre waterfront campus on the Rappahannock River near the Chesapeake Bay, the school enrolls approximately 225 students, boarding and day, grades 9-12. Day students number approximately 45% of the student body.

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Academics

Christchurch offers a college prep program and a Learning Skills Program for students with diagnosed learning differences. Over seventy-five percent of the faculty lives on campus. Faculty serve as coaches, advisors, and dorm parents.

Admission to Christchurch School is based upon the candidate's application, recommendations, questionnaires, transcripts, and a personal interview.

Christchurch is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Association of Episcopal Schools, and the Virginia Association of Independent Schools

Curriculum

The 125-acre campus on the banks of the Rappahannock River and in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, offers opportunity for a hands-on curriculum "Great Journeys Begin at the River" with students making discoveries and connections both inside and outside the classroom. The river is two miles wide at the Christchurch campus.

The Rappahannock River and the Chesapeake Bay watershed offer a living classroom for marine science and an out-of-door co-curricular experience, with opportunities for sailing, crew, research projects, class trips, adventuring, team-building, and leadership.

Athletics

Lacrosse

2010 VISAA Division II State Champions

Boys' soccer

2010 VISAA Division II State Champions

2022 VISAA Division II State Champions

Football

2011 VISAA Division II State Champions

2017 VISAA Division II State Champions

2023 VISFL Division I State Champions

Boys' basketball

1994 Prep League Champions

2013 VISAA Division II State Champions

Swimming

2021 VISAA Division II State Champions

Sailing

The school has its own sailing fleet, onsite boathouse, and sailing venue. It competes in the Virginia Interscholastic Sailing Association (VISA) league of the Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Sailing Association district, one of seven districts in the Interscholastic Sailing Association. The team is nationally ranked, and won the Atlantic Coast Championship in both 2016 and 2017, and won the ISSA Team Racing National Championship in May 2019.[ citation needed ]

Other sports

Girls' soccer, softball, girls' basketball, volleyball, baseball

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. 1 2 Carvajal, Doreen (11 November 2000). "Recalling the Civilized Voice Of a Critic, Vincent Canby". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  2. Monroe, Alexander (2014). In Service to Their Country--Christchurch School and the American Uniformed Service. Brandylane Press.
  3. Scarborough, Alex (September 26, 2023). "Haley Van Voorhis' journey into college football history". ESPN.com. Retrieved November 20, 2023.

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