The Wellington School (simply referred to as Wellington) is a PK–12

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co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

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, United States. It was established in 1982 by a group of entrepreneurs. It is a member of the

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and Independent Schools Association of the Central States. It was named a Top Workplace by Columbus CEO magazine in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Wellington was also named Best Private School in the Best of Business poll by Columbus CEO magazine in 2015 and 2016. Head of School Robert Brisk presented at TEDxColumbus on the topic of student engagement in 2016.

Campus

Wellington is located at the corner of Fishinger and Reed Roads in the center of

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approximately 8 miles from downtown

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History

Wellington was conceived in 1979 by a group of entrepreneurs with the goal of creating the first coeducational, independent school in Columbus. These entrepreneurs were Ken Ackerman, Harry K. Gard, Bob Holland, Len Immke, George Minot, Dave Swaddling, Dave Thomas, Jack Ruscilli, and Jeff Wilkins. They spent three years refining plans, raising money, finding a property, and recruiting teachers and students. In 1982, The Wellington School opened with 137 students and 19 employees as the first co-ed independent school in Columbus. The first graduating class was in 1989 with 32 students. In 2010, the new 76,000 square foot building opened. In 2012, the Little Jags preschool program for 3-year-olds began.

Athletics

Wellington currently competes in the Mid-State League of the

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. Sports at Wellington include: boys and girls soccer, tennis, golf, cross country, basketball, swim and dive, and track and field. Boys baseball and girls softball and lacrosse are also offered. Fall * Boys

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

* Girls

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Boys

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

* Girls

Winter * Boys

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

* Girls

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and

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Spring *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

* Boys

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

* Girls

* Boys

Wellington Athletic Successes * 2019 State Champions - Boys Soccer (Team) * 2019 State Champions - Boys Tennis (Team) * 2018 State Champions - Boys Golf * 2018 State Champions - Boys Tennis (Team) * 2018 State Champions - Boys Tennis (Doubles) * 2018 State Runner-up - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2017 State Qualifier - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2017 State Qualifier - Boys Diving (Individual) * 2017 State Runner-Up - Boys Basketball * 2016 State Qualifier - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2016 State Final Four - Boys Basketball * 2016 State Qualifier - Boys Diving (Individual) * 2016 State Runner-Up - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2015 State Qualifier - Boys Diving (Individual) * 2015 State Qualifier - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2014 State Runner-Up - Boys Golf * 2014 State Qualifier - Boys Golf (Individual) * 2014 State Qualifier - Girls Tennis (Individual) * 2014 State Qualifier - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2014 State Qualifier - Boys Diving (Individual) * 2013 State Qualifier - Boys Golf * 2013 State Qualifier - Girls Tennis (Individual) * 2013 State Runner-Up - Girls Diving (Individual) * 2012 State Runner-Up - Boys Golf * 2012 State Runner-Up - Girls Diving (Individual) * 2011 State Champions - Boys Golf * 2011 State Runner-Up - Girls Golf (Individual) * 2011 State Runner-Up - Boys Tennis (Individual) * 2010 State Final Four - Girls Lacrosse * 2006 State Final Four - Girls Lacrosse * 2003 State Final Four - Boys Basketball * 2003 State Champions - Middle School Boys Lacrosse * 2001 State Champions - Boys Tennis (Doubles) * 2001 State Runner-Up - Boys Lacrosse * 2000 State Champions - Girls Lacrosse * 1999 State Runner-Up - Boys Lacrosse * 1998 State Runner-Up - Boys Lacrosse * 1989 State Champions - Girls Tennis (Doubles)

References

External links

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