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Wilberforce is the school for families who want academic excellence joined with spiritual formation.

the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty

At Wilberforce, we are committed to purposeful stewardship of those formative hours students spend at school by discipling the mind and the soul. The fruit of this effort is a genuine love of learning, lasting friendships, and authentic faith.

Wilberforce is the school for families who want academic excellence joined with spiritual formation.

the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty

At Wilberforce, we are committed to purposeful stewardship of those formative hours students spend at school by discipling the mind and the soul. The fruit of this effort is a genuine love of learning, lasting friendships, and authentic faith.

If…a principle of true Christianity should…gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE
POLITICIAN AND ABOLITIONIST
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Deliberately integrating the best academic training with historic orthodox Christian faith and practice

H. Whitman, Founder

Wilberforce’s faith in Christ changed him from a careless, wealthy young politician to a tireless, compassionate public servant. He is a man we hold up for our students to learn from & emulate.

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hours students spend at school by being committed to discipling the mind and the soul. The fruit of this effort is joyful discovery, lasting friendships, and authentic faith.

Stewarding Formative Years

Students spend 16,000 hours at school before they graduate. These hours are influential in their formation.

Teachers, coaches, classmates, and curricula have an enormous influence not only on what they learn, but on who they become.

 

Like you, we realize that a child's intellectual, social, and spiritual formation happen together - at school, on the playground, at home, and church - 24/7.

Wilberforce is a community gathered for the purpose of being intentional about how we steward these formative years.

Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead a transfer of a way of life.
GK CHESTERTON
AUTHOR AND APOLOGIST
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From the earliest years, training the heart in virtue, cultivating rightly ordered desires—and the behaviors that flow from those desires, instilling love for God and neighbor, and teaching the pursuit of excellence for His glory in all things, are all integrated into a Wilberforce education.

Inez McGowan
Parent

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You can flourish here 

We take special care to integrate the best academic training with deliberate grounding in historic Christian faith and practice.

Our curriculum is delivered by Christian faculty who invite students to join them in applying faith to life and learning.

A depth of inquiry

The secret to our approach is joyful engagement with rich, time-tested material, and a focus on multiple modes of performance - writing, speaking, debating, and problem-solving rather than the "cram and test" approach that so many schools in this area embrace.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
ABOLITIONIST AND ORATOR
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I think that excitment and joy of learning and the rigor that was provided by Wilberforce has enabled me to be more than just a computer scientist.

Emmanuel David
Alumni

Experience Right Portrait

You are known here

At Wilberforce students are seen and known. Our small class sizes enable all of our students to be known by their teachers, known by each other. Teachers know student strengths and weaknesses.

You teach little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.
HENRIETTA C. MEARS
EDUCATOR AND EVANGELIST
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Our unique culture brings together faculty, students, and parents in a shared pursuit of lasting friendships, rigorous scholarship, and growing faith.

Alex Vardeman
Girls Dean

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You can do more here

At Wilberforce it is common for a student to be a multi-sport athlete and also have a part in the school musical, or to be on both the debate team and the swim team. A smaller school community with an invested faculty calls students up into leadership and initiative. The result is students discovering new talents and passions, and growing as whole persons.

Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
DANIEL
PROPHET
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At Wilberforce, it’s true—you really can do so much more.

Michael Chadehumbe
Student

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Depth of Inquiry

At Wilberforce, we engage both the heart and the mind developing cognitive ability and a...

Sense of Wonder

Our interactive and engaged classrooms ignite curiousity and nuture passion which results in...
Children are born with all the curiosity they will ever need. It will last a lifetime if they are fed upon a daily diet of ideas.
CHARLOTTE MASON
EDUCATOR AND REFORMER
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At Wilberforce, students learn to extract meaning and articulate ideas from reading primary documents; original texts rather than predigested textbooks.

Irene Hahn
Science Faculty

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The Wilberforce School exists to provide a distinctively Christian education characterized by academic excellence and joyful discovery within a classical framework.

 

 
All studies, philosophy, rhetoric, are for this one object, that we may know Christ and honor him. This is the end of all learning and eloquence.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
SCHOLAR AND THEOLOGIAN
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The fruit of this effort is joyful discovery, lasting friendships, and authentic faith.

Howe Whitman
Founder

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Academic excellence joined with spiritual formation

Like you, we know education is formation. We focus on a higher goal than college admission—we prepare our students for life.

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