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  Boarding Schools in Virginia
Episcopal High School is dedicated to the student's pursuit of excellence and to the joy of learning and self-discovery in a caring and supportive community.
Foxcroft School, founded in 1914, is an independent boarding and day school for girls in grades 9-12 located in Middleburg, Virginia.
Foxcroft has become a national model for the education of young women because we have created a learning and living environment that addresses in a comprehensive way the specific strengths and needs of girls.
www.boardingschoolsinfo.com /catredir.asp?cat=770   (774 words)

  
 Foxcroft School - Peterson's In-Depth Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Foxcroft is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the Secondary School Admission Test Board, and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools.
Foxcroft capitalizes on the fact that nearly 80 percent of the faculty and administration live on campus.
Foxcroft is located 4 miles from Middleburg, and students may shop and eat in town on the weekends or arrange a ride with a faculty member if they need to do something in town during the week.
www.petersons.com /PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=595114-2&inunId=861&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1   (2205 words)

  
 Foxcroft Academy
Foxcroft Academy was established as a private secondary school on January 30, 1823, and became the first school to be chartered after Maine became a state.
The school was named for Colonel Joseph Ellery Foxcroft who had purchased one of the five townships granted to Bowdoin College by the Massachusetts General Court in 1794.
Foxcroft Academy provides academic support periods which consist of small groups of approximately 10 students assigned to a classroom teacher in the academic area in which the students need assistance.
www.boardingschoolsusa.com /factshts/foxcroft.asp   (711 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - School News -- Sept. 3, 2003
All high school students are welcome to attend to learn the differences between colleges and how to apply to various colleges.
Suitor is the academic dean and dean of faculty at Foxcroft.
Foxcroft School is a boarding and day college-preparatory school in Middleburg for girls in grades nine through 12.
www.zwire.com /site/tab2.cfm?newsid=10102453&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506072&rfi=6   (659 words)

  
 Girls Boarding Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Copper Canyon Academy boarding school for girls assists families and gives them the reassurance that there is a wonderful future ahead for their child and family.
Miss Hall's School mission is to provide a school committed to preparing young women for full and satisfying lives in the modern world by incorporatin experiential learning into a comprehensive, college preparatory education, adapting students' programs to build on their strengths.
NCGS members share a commitment to the values and benefits of single-sex schools for girls, and a belief that all girls, regardless of educational setting, deserve the opportunity to realize their potential, to be active and equal, confident and competent leaders, participants and contributors.
www.boardingschoolsinfo.com /categories/Speciality-Boarding-Schools_Girls-Boarding-Schools.asp   (1520 words)

  
 Foxcroft School - Boarding School Profile
The school is located on 500 acres in Middleburg, Virginia, 50 miles west of Washington, D.C."
Founded in 1914, Foxcroft School is a college preparatory boarding and day school for girls in grades 9 through 12.
The school is located on 500 acres in Middleburg, Virginia, 50 miles west of Washington, D.C. School Map:
www.boardingschoolreview.com /school_ov/school_id/227   (139 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - A tsunami survival story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
WEATHER WISE: Foxcroft School student Noon Kampanatsanyakorn, 16, was kayaking in the ocean off Krabi in southwest Thailand when she was swept up in the tsunami Dec. 26.
Noon Kampanatsanyakorn, a sophomore at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, had a first-person view of the tsunami in south Asia Dec. 26: She was stuck in the upper branches of a cluster of mangrove trees when the first wave crashed ashore in Thailand.
The school is in the middle of town, on high ground, and its eight dormitories were serving as emergency shelters.
www.timescommunity.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=13775717&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6   (1114 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Foxcroft School's day students, led by student prefects Amy Lucas of Leesburg and Emily Wheelwright of The Plains, invite the public to help replenish depleted blood supplies at a drive on Monday, Jan. 30.
The school's staff would like to broadcast as many student activities as possible on cable channel 16, the Fauquier County Public School channel.
To qualify, applicants must work on the farm of an association member; be enrolled in an accredited two or four-year college, university or trade school; and be pursuing a career in the dairy industry.
www.timescommunity.com /site/tab2.cfm?newsid=15790110&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506072&rfi=6   (327 words)

  
 SPS - 2003 Student Biographies
Anne attends Polytechnic School in Pasadena, CA, served on the school’s judiciary committee in her sophomore year, was an intern last summer in her congressman’s district office, and worked on the mayor’s election campaign.
She received the school’s MVP Award for junior varsity tennis and is a member of the school’s varsity soccer team.
Robert attends Memphis University School in Memphis, TN, is an Eagle Scout, the elected President of the General Assembly of the Tennessee Model UN, participates in Government Club, writes and edits for the school yearbook, newspaper and magazine, and is manager for the wrestling and track teams.
www.schoolofpublicservice.org /students/2003bios.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Testimony of Michael Feinberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Second, the majority of charter schools are "mom and pop" schools, developed and launched by people working in isolation whose highest aim is to create a single school of their dreams.
Once we have a larger number of Network schools, some Fellows will be the Creators, who are on the June to June track and then go off and write, apply for, and start their own charter schools—improving on the KIPP school design and perhaps expanding into elementary and high school grades.
Schools where students, their parents, and the faculty have made a choice to be there and signed a contract that spells out the commitment they are making to each other and the school.
edworkforce.house.gov /hearings/106th/fc/charter92800/feinberg.htm   (6041 words)

  
 St. Catherine's School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For nearly four decades, from 1890-1939, she was the heart and soul of the little school that started in the dining room of a boarding house and grew to become one of the leading independent girls schools in the nation.
She guided the school through its transition in 1920 from the Virginia Randolph Ellett School for Girls to St. Catherine’s School under the auspices of the Episcopal Church in Virginia.
The school challenges each girl to develop personal integrity, a respect for the dignity and differences of others, and a sense of responsibility for her actions.
www.st.catherines.org /library/heads.html   (1673 words)

  
 Stephanie Zimbalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zimbalist graduated from Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia.
She briefly attended the Juilliard School before commencing her acting career.
Early television and movie appearances include Forever, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, The Awakening (with Charlton Heston) and The Golden Moment, in which she played a Soviet Olympic gymnast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephanie_Zimbalist   (376 words)

  
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Margaret's varsity soccer team continued its dominance this season with an easy victory over Foxcroft School on a sleepy afternoon last Thursday, January 21st.
The game, played on SMS' home field adjacent to Essex Intermediate School, was scheduled as the second of two meetings between SMS and Foxcroft last week, but icy conditions on Foxcroft's home field in Middleburg, VA forced Tuesday's game earlier in the week to be cancelled.
Foxcroft missed the services of two of their starters for Thursday's game due to academic commitments.
www.sms.org /sp990122.htm   (462 words)

  
 Maine Community Foundation: Scholarships Piscataquis County
The Burgess Scholarship was established in 1987 by the estate of Myra L. Burgess to award a scholarship to a graduate of Foxcroft Academy who seeks education beyond the secondary level.
The fund is particularly interested in assisting students from the Sangerville area who have shown civic and community involvement, leadership qualities, or efforts on behalf of the environment or the arts.
The Fund was established in 1992 by the family and friends of Jeffrey Kilpatrick to provide scholarship support to graduating seniors of Piscataquis Community High School and Foxcroft Academy who wish to pursue post-secondary education.
www.mainecf.org /html/scholarships/bycounty/piscataquis.html   (699 words)

  
 2510. Peter Brodie, classics teacher, Foxcroft School, Middleburg VA. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
Peter Brodie, classics teacher, Foxcroft School, Middleburg VA. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
Peter Brodie, classics teacher, Foxcroft School, Middleburg VA What is important—what lasts—in another language is not what is said but what is written.
For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
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 Holton-Arms School - Directions to Games
School is located at the corner of Wisconsin Ave.
School is on the left, as you go south on Wisconsin (i.e.
Cross Wilson Lane (MD 188) and turn left onto Whittier Blvd. The school is on the left and the stadium is at the back of the parking lot on the left side of the school.
www.holton-arms.edu /campus/game_directions.cfm   (1595 words)

  
 Private Schools in Northern Virginia- Private School Directory
Private schools include schools in Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Arlington County, Alexandria City, Falls Church and other suburban cities in the Washington DC area.
Please check directly with the schools to verify all information, especially the costs of tuition as well as the grade level of children.
Foxcroft School, 22407 Foxhound La., Middleburg 20117; 800-858-2364; girls 9th–12th grade, $19,750 (day), $29,750 (boarding); no daycare; 183 students; www.foxcroft.org.
www.northernva.com /c21/schools-private.html   (2633 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - Foxcroft has all the amenities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When Foxcroft was built in the early 1970s, it was "the" neighborhood, residents said, though at the time, it was situated in what was considered a rural area.
Today, Foxcroft is in the midst of the Eastside's vast and ongoing development, with new places to shop, eat, live and receive health care.
The recreation, the families, the schools and the road patterns are still great, he said.
greenvilleonline.com /news/2004/06/12/2004061233135.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Monson residents discuss school's future - Diana Bowley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The elementary school in Sebec was closed many years ago and in recent years directors closed the Charleston Elementary School because of structural concerns and economics.
After listening to the comments aired Wednesday, selectmen voted to appoint a local school committee to study the issue, determine what options the town has in keeping the school open and their associated costs, and to investigate the possibility of withdrawing from SAD 68.
SAD 4 was considered because Monson's middle and high school pupils are bused through that district to reach SeDoMoCha Middle School and Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft.
www.bangornews.com /news/templates?a=110576   (452 words)

  
 BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
With acceptances at 26 schools, Burgundy will be represented in independent, public, parochial, co-ed, single-sex and boarding schools.
“We integrated that little school, not as a challenge to anybody, not as a precedent, but because it seemed a good thing to do on behalf of our own children, who must learn to live, after all, in a country that doesn’t belong to any particular group.
He referenced Burgundy in a speech at the integration of Alexandria City schools on February 10, 1959 in a CBS radio broadcast; right, families gather at Burgundy's opening dedication.
www.burgundyfarm.org   (218 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Flu cancels Foxcroft Walk-a-Thon
The Foxcroft School in Middleburg has canceled the annual junior class Walk-A-Thon, scheduled for Saturday (March 11).
Loudoun Health Director Dr. David Goodfriend confirmed a spike in flu activity in the area in the last few weeks, but said the number of cases is not out of the ordinary for this time of year.
In that school is one teacher for 50 students and shared textbooks.
www.zwire.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=16279317&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6   (216 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: A Healthy Appetite for Helping Out
Foxcroft School, a girls preparatory school in Middleburg, is trying to raise $5,000 for the American Red Cross's tsunami relief effort.
Sophomore Noon Kampanatsanyakorn, 16, a student from Thailand, was home during the winter break, visiting her family with her older sister, Nat, a recent Foxcroft graduate, when the tsunami hit.
Three Foxcroft students and a teacher are expected to visit Thailand in June.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A19889-2005Jan19?language=printer   (154 words)

  
 News Vinegar
Foxcroft developed the use of white distilled vinegar in chlorine analyzers.
In 1980 Foxcroft had a goal to manufacture the best chlorine analyzer in the market.
So the next time you change that bottle of white distilled vinegar on an analyzer just think of where it was developed.
www.foxcroft.com /news_vinegar.htm   (358 words)

  
 Athletics Directions
The Covenant School gym is located on the west end of the building.
Christchurch School is on the left (approximately 4 miles south of Saluda).
Foxcroft Road Middleburg, VA 20117 (540) 687-5555; Fax: (540) 687-3675
webserver.sms.org /intranet/at_dir.htm   (1428 words)

  
 California horseback riding lessons, horse training, boarding
There is nothing better for the inside of a person than the outside of a horse and we pride ourselves in having a fun, family atmosphere.
Foxcroft Farm in Chino, California is a horse boarding and training facility, hunter/jumper show stable and horseback riding school.
Although we specialize in horseback riding lessons for children, Foxcroft Farm is open to people of all ages.
www.foxcroftfarm.com   (105 words)

  
 The Maine Principals' Association - Late Breaking News
Prior to her appointment as principal of the Cottrell School in 1999, she was a classroom teacher at the Winthrop Grade School from 1989-1999.
She was previously a pre-school director at the Pooh Bear Nursery School in Wayne from 1987-1989 and a kindergarten teacher at Chelmsford {MA} Elementary School from 1975-1977.
Prior to her appointment as principal of Scarborough Middle School in 1990, she was lead teacher and a mathematics teacher at Wentworth Middle School in Scarborough from 1985-1990 and a mathematics teacher at Scarborough Junior High from 1977-1985.
www.mpa.cc /news/lbnewsarchive.html   (11633 words)

  
 Mayo Street Elementary School - Dover Foxcroft, ME - Insider Pages
All I can tell you is that if you plan on moving to the state of maine perhaps the town of Dover foxcroft is a good place to start looking.
This school is an awesome school and is rated to be one of the top in the state..
My son went there for one year with a superintendent agreement and we are now planning on moving so that he can go there all the time...
www.insiderpages.com /profiles/MayoStreetElementarySchool-dCsV9eIDRbCtirsTimhH3w   (119 words)

  
 Northern Virginia Swim League Diving
She recently graduated from the Foxcroft School, where she represented her school in the State ISL Championships during her senior year.
She was a High School diver for Yorktown, where she went to Regionals each year and she dove with NVDC several winters.
He also was a member of the James Madison High School Swim and Dive Team and a Captain for the diving team for the past 2 years.
nvsldive.nvpools.com /core/core/domain/nvsldive/group/global/screen/view_article?articleid=3012   (1666 words)

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