The Rev. Edward Tate

The Reverend Edward Tate is one of those founding figures whose public records are surprisingly thin given the institutional weight of what he started. He opened Russell Road Place Russell Road The single-residence Russell Road property where the Reverend Edward Tate opened St. Stephen's School for Boys in 1944, with 97 students in grades 3–8. The school operated here for … — initially a single rented residence on Russell Road in Alexandria’s Rosemont neighborhood — in September 1944, in the same wartime moment that overflowed the rest of Alexandria’s school capacity. Ninety-seven boys enrolled the first year, in grades 3 through 8 ^[1] Source 1 SSSAS School History Website .

Tate’s relationship with the Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia (CSDV) was decisive: the trustees took a special vote in 1944 to admit St. Stephen’s into the Church Schools system on its founding, integrating the new school into the diocesan family that had begun with 1200 North Quaker Lane Place 1200 North Quaker Lane The first high school in Virginia, founded 1839 by Bishop William Meade of the Episcopal Diocese on a 100-acre campus west of Old Town. First principal William Nelson Pendleton … in 1839 and added St. Agnes (at 220 North Washington Street Place 220 North Washington Street Late-Georgian 1797 townhouse at the corner of North Washington and Queen built by merchant John Wise. Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General and brother of Light-Horse Harry, lived … ) in 1924 ^[2] Source 2 Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: Church Schools Celebrate 100 Years Article .

The school relocated to its modern Saint Stephens Road campus in January 1957 — the address of today’s 1000 Saint Stephens Road Place 1000 Saint Stephens Road Upper School (grades 9–12) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, occupying the Saint Stephens Road campus opened in January 1957 by St. Stephen's School for Boys. In 1961 the school … — and eventually merged with St. Agnes in 1991 to form a single co-educational K–12 institution. Tate’s tenure as head of school is not extensively documented in public sources; this entry will be expanded if and when the SSSAS archives or diocesan records yield more.