On the 7th of September, 2010—exactly 225 years from the day the cornerstone was laid for the original schoolhouse—the new Alexandria Academy will open its doors. Opening on the original site, Alexandria Academy – The Washington Latin School in the City of Alexandria will be a coeducational, classical common school in which students of every ethnic background and economic circumstance will be informed by the Enlightenment intellectual tradition and moral seriousness of George Washington and his age.

In its first year, the new Alexandria Academy will welcome 48 young scholars in grades Prep V through Second Form (5-8) to study its NewClassics™ K-12 curriculum that combines Latin, logic, rhetoric and ?great books with advanced programs in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics). Along with the highest General Graduation Requirements in the region, the school will provide a full range of opportunities in visual & performing arts and competitive sport. Through its Standards of Conduct & Civility, the new Academy will teach manners, virtue, self-reliance and the principles of republican government. It will quickly grow into a K-12 school serving 1288 students.

Alexandria Academy’s rich academic programs are enhanced through a broad network of articulated relationships with leading educational and cultural institutions including the National Archives, the Folger-Shakespeare Library, the National Gallery of Art, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The National Geographic Society and The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

In the democratic tradition of Noah Webster, Horace Mann and Robert Maynard Hutchins, who insisted that “the education that is best for the best is the education that is best for all,” the Academy will not employ economic and social data to track so called “at risk” students into remedial programs. Instead it will hold all students to the same high standards, providing each and every one with the support they need for success—in school and in life.