欢迎

It is a pleasure to welcome you to St. 奥尔本斯. Each day as the school’s headmaster, I more deeply appreciate the culture and 值 of this warm, 充满活力的, and aspirational 社区.

Many students are attracted to St. 奥尔本斯 because of our reputation for academic excellence and our rigorous college preparatory program. By the time our boys graduate, they see that their time here was about something more. It is this—the transformation of a young man’s vision, 值, and character—that is the promise of a St. 奥尔本斯教育.

We expect a great deal from our students, believing that boys have the capacity for rich intellectual, 道德, and emotional lives. They rise to these expectations because we see the best in every boy and insist that they see the best in themselves.

Our faculty view teaching as a calling. The relationships between our students and their teachers and coaches lie at the heart of everything we do. 小班授课, at seated family-style meals, and during engaging chapel services, we cultivate in students a passion for excellence, a love of learning, and a commitment to the enduring questions at the heart of the human experience.

As an Episcopal school that welcomes students of all faiths, we are an intentionally diverse 社区 that believes in the essential dignity of every student and the vital importance of a child’s 道德 and spiritual growth. St. 奥尔本斯 boys aspire to be accomplished scholars, 运动员, 和艺术家, but also good men: thoughtful, 善解人意, 可敬的, 人道的, and generous of spirit. They graduate prepared to lead thoughtfully and compassionately, 追求智慧, and to serve causes greater than themselves.

As a school located beside Washington National Cathedral overlooking the nation’s capital, we are always looking upward and outwards, drawing our boys into lives of thoughtful engagement with the highest spiritual and civic ideals. But underlying this is where the soul of the school is ultimately found: in the abiding sense of warmth, 社区, and joy that fills our students with genuine affection for one another and lifelong devotion to their school. Only time spent on our campus can fully capture the intangible qualities that make this such a dynamic, close-knit 社区. I invite all who are new to St. 奥尔本斯 to come visit us, and I look forward to welcoming you personally.