Since our founding in 1889, thousands of families have trusted Woodberry Forest School with their boys. At Woodberry, we challenge boys to become successful leaders and active contributors to society and prepare them to enter the most selective colleges and universities.
At Woodberry, we transform good boys with potential and the will to succeed into honorable and respectful men of moral purpose. We're a school for boys and parents who want a unique and meaningful high school experience. Here boys develop their character, prepare for leadership, and gain a passion for learning in an enduring community grounded in meaningful relationships and continuous learning. Our legendary honor system has been teaching boys how to be honorable men for 120 years.
Above all, Woodberry is a community of trust, governed by the 120-year-old, student-run honor system. The spirit of trust and the fact that all of the students and nearly all of the faculty live on campus create a place where every boy is known, challenged, and loved in a positive and caring culture. Everyone in our community wants each boy to be the best version of himself.
The Woodberry community extends far beyond the campus. When boys leave, they lead successful careers that are significant and rewarding. They become members of a strong alumni community, bonded through the generations, demonstrating an extraordinary love for and devotion to the school. At Woodberry Forest School, boys prepare for their futures as leaders, learners, and citizens. Located in Virginia's rolling hills, Woodberry is a boarding school where students develop a deep sense of empathy, an enduring self-confidence, genuine humility, and an interest in lifelong learning. Woodberry boys enjoy lives of commitment and honor, marked by moral beliefs and ethical values in service to others.
Woodberry believes in developing all aspects of boys. When classes end, the Woodberry experience is only beginning, providing boys with numerous outlets to develop, grow, and challenge themselves. The challenging academic curriculum is supplemented by an athletic program that has enjoyed more than a century of sustained excellence and a fine arts program that exposes boys to collegiate-level facilities and opportunities. Boys work with their teachers and coaches to build a culture of shared experiences, both in the classroom and beyond it. These experiences help boys develop their passions as they build confidence, resilience, and independence.
Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students. It does not discriminate based on race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.
Since the school's founding, Woodberry Forest has sought to develop young men of intellectual thoroughness and moral integrity equipped with the capacity and eagerness to serve as leaders, learners, and citizens. Consistent with the school's historical founding on Christian principles, we aspire to instill in every boy a deep sense of empathy, an enduring self-confidence buttressed by genuine humility, and an enthusiastic pursuit of lifelong learning marked by curiosity and adaptability. Above all, we aim for every boy to enjoy a meaningful life by nurturing his commitment to act upon moral beliefs and ethical values in service to others.
The school's purpose is to develop in its students, under Christian principles, a high sense of honor and moral integrity, deep respect for sound scholarship, a full acceptance of responsibility, a love of excellence, and a will toward personal sacrifice in service to others. Likewise, it is its mission, based on these ideals, to develop its students into leaders, train its students toward a useful contribution to the democratic society in which they live, and give them thorough preparation for the best colleges and universities consistent with their potentials.
The abiding concern of Woodberry Forest School is the personal growth of its students. To this end, the school attempts to provide a broad experience with a balanced emphasis on its students' academic, artistic, physical, and spiritual development. In so doing, the school believes that well-conceived challenges, together with support and encouragement, will instill self-confidence and a striving for continuing excellence throughout life. Woodberry Forest is committed to helping students become individuals whose sense of values and capacity to reason effectively will allow them to deal with significant intellectual, ethical, and social problems and to lead rewarding private lives. In keeping with this objective, the faculty is more concerned with teaching students how to think than what to think.
As a community, the school fosters an atmosphere of civility and cooperation, urging its members to treat one another with the respect and consideration they hope to receive in return. The underpinning of that effort is the honor system, which is not so much a rigid code as it is a way of life that is fundamental to the Woodberry Forest community's decency. The school seeks to maintain a secure and healthy environment for its students to go about growing and learning, hoping that every student will come to think of Woodberry Forest as a second home.
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