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Saint Stephens Road

The Rev. Edward Tate Person The Rev. Edward Tate Episcopal priest who founded St. Stephen's School for Boys at a single residence on Russell Road in Alexandria in 1944. The school was admitted that same year to the Church Schools … founded St. Stephen’s School for Boys in 1944 on a single residence off Russell Road, with 97 students in grades 3–8. The post-war population boom in northern Virginia outgrew the Russell Road site within a decade, and in January 1957 the school relocated to the campus it still occupies — a wooded tract on Saint Stephens Road, half a mile north of the 3737 Seminary Road Place 3737 Seminary Road Episcopal theological seminary founded in Alexandria in 1823 and relocated to its present hilltop campus in 1827. Occupied by Union forces during the Civil War and used as a … and a stone’s throw from 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 … ^[1] Source 1 SSSAS School History Website .

The choice of site placed the school in what would become Alexandria’s longest-standing concentration of Episcopal education — a corridor running roughly along Quaker Lane from the Seminary at the south to St. Stephen’s at the north, with Episcopal High School and its 100-acre farm as the eastern anchor. The students called the network “the diocesan corner.” See the long-form story Episcopal Alexandria: a corridor of schools.

1961 — desegregation

On a date in September 1961, with no advance press coverage and over the objection of an unspecified number of trustees, St. Stephen’s admitted Lloyd "Tony" Lewis Person Lloyd "Tony" Lewis First Black student admitted to any of the Episcopal Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia, entering St. Stephen's School for Boys in Alexandria in September 1961 — four years … — the first Black student in any of the Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia. The Lewis admission predates the Alexandria public schools’ first Black student at T.C. Williams High School by four years, and predates the desegregation of any of the diocese’s other schools (St. Catherine’s, St. Christopher’s, Stuart Hall) by five or more years ^[2] Source 2 Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: Church Schools Celebrate 100 Years Article .

1991 — the merger and the Upper School designation

With the 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 … chapter of St. Agnes long behind it (the girls’ school had moved to its own campus on King Street in the 1930s and to a Seminary Ridge site in the 1950s), the boards of St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes voted in November 1988 to explore a merger. September 1991 opened with St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (SSSAS) as a single co-educational K–12 institution, with Joan Ogilvy-Holden as the first Head of School ^[3] Source 3 Washington Post: Merger Set for St. Stephen's, St. Agnes' (1988) Article .

The Saint Stephens Road campus became the Upper School for grades 9–12. The 4401 West Braddock Road Place 4401 West Braddock Road Middle School (grades 6–8) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes since the late 1990s, on the West Braddock Road campus that previously housed Ascension Academy — the small independent … on West Braddock — a former independent school’s campus, acquired separately — serves grades 6–8. The 400 Fontaine Street Place 400 Fontaine Street Lower School (JK through grade 5) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, on Fontaine Street in Seminary Hill. Originally a campus of St. Agnes School for Girls; rolled into SSSAS at … on Fontaine Street holds grades 3 through 5 plus the JK and Pre-K program.