All boys. All boarding. Grades 9-12.
Accomplishments and Initiatives Since 2014
Here are the highlights of major accomplishments and initiatives undertaken by the school since 2014:
Program Review and Curricular Changes:
- New daily academic schedule that gives older students increased flexibility and control over their education through a class schedule that more closely aligns with what they will experience in college.
- Launch of new elective courses in engineering, journalism, personal finance, computer science, and philosophy.
- Update to the history curriculum, with US history now taught in the fourth form and boys selecting from an array of history electives in the fifth form and sixth form.
- Creation of a new wholeness program that includes one-off events as well as programming every Saturday morning.
Facilities
- Walker Building Revitalization
- Transfer of William H. White, Jr. Library to Reynolds Family Learning Commons, site for more than 100 years of the school’s dining room
- Creation of a student center on Community Street that includes an expanded and remodeled Fir Tree, Student Store, Post Office, and game room.
- The first ever family-sized residence on Walker Building
- Hanes Hall
- Conversion into a dorm for 60 boys
- Home of the school’s largest common room, which is also suitable for form meetings or special events
- Creation of a new family-sized residence on the dorm.
- Faculty Housing
- Construction of two large, new duplexes to house families and long-serving faculty.
- Construction of a new stand-along family residence near the outdoor pool.
- Complete renovations of six family homes built in the 1960s.
Athletics
- Expansion of athletics and afternoon activities
- Mountain Biking added as a varsity sport
- Head Coach Nolan LaVoie and Efose Oriaifo ’17 recognized with National Interscholastic Cycling Association’s Extraordinary Courage Award in 2017.
- Climbing added as a varsity sport
- Expanded off-season sports opportunities in several sports.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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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 at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of 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.