Wakefield School is an independent day school located in

The Plains, Virginia The Plains is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population was 245 as of the 2020 census, up from 217 at the 2010 census. It is centered on the intersection of VA 55 (John Marshall Highway) and VA 245 (Old Tavern Road). The ...

, with classes ranging from junior kindergarten to 12th grade. It was founded in

Huntly, Virginia Huntly is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atl ...

in 1972 as

Wakefield Country Day School Wakefield Country Day School is a co-educational, independent, non-sectarian elementary, middle, and high school situated in Rappahannock County, United States and serving grades preschool (age 3) through grade 12. The school's campus is located n ...

, and changed its name to Wakefield School in the early 1980s when it established a small boarding department (boarding was discontinued after a few years). After a disagreement with the founders of the school, the half of the board of trustees moved the school from the Huntly location and re-founded the school at Marshall, Virginia in 1991, and moved later to Archwood Farm in The Plains (the first campus owned by the board of trustees) in 1996. However, the original campus, headed by the original founders, continues to operate as a separate school,

. Between 1996 and today, Wakefield grew from a school of 240 students to the current enrollment of about 332 as the campus was developed. Wakefield School was first accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools in 2001. It counts among its graduates more than 800 alumni: 1980-1991 from the Huntly campus, 1992-1996 from the Marshall campus, and 1997-the present from The Plains campus. Significant alums include reddit.com and hipmunk.com cofounder Steven Huffman '01. Wakefield is a member of the Greater Piedmont Athletic Conference (GPAC).

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Schools in Fauquier County, Virginia Private high schools in Virginia Private middle schools in Virginia Private elementary schools in Virginia 1972 establishments in Virginia Educational institutions established in 1972