Burgundy Farm Country Day School

Burgundy Farm Country Day School is an independent school on a 25-acre (100,000 m2) campus in the Alexandria neighborhood of Fairfax County, Virginia, and 500 acres (2.0 km2) in West Virginia. It serves students in grades Junior Kindergarten through Eighth Grade.

Burgundy Farm Country Day School
Location
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
Information
School typeIndependent
Progressive
Established1946
Head of SchoolJeff Sindler
GradesJK-8
Enrollment275
Student to teacher ratio7:1
AccreditationVAIS
Websitewww.burgundyfarm.org

History

The school was founded in 1946 by a group of concerned parents, which included some Quakers and also included noted CBS broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid[1] and his wife Lois. In 1950, Burgundy became the first school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to racially integrate and worked actively to attract non-white students.[2] Camay Calloway Murphy, daughter of Jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway, became one of the first African-Americans to teach at a white school when she accepted a position at Burgundy in the early 1950s.[3][4]

Campus

The school's main campus is located on a former dairy farm just outside the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia beltway. In 2018, the school renovated the commons and added an arts building known as The Loft.[5]

Center for Wildlife Studies

Burgundy's second campus, a 524-acre (212 ha) wildlife preserve in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia called the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies, is commonly referred to as "the Cove."[6] All classes, beginning with first grade, visit the Cove for intensive study in science and natural history biannually.

The Cove recently acquired another 24 acres (9.7 ha), from landowners surrounding the property. The funding for the purchase of these extra 24 acres came from "The Big Hike", in which a Burgundy teacher, sometimes accompanied by students, hiked from his home in Alexandria to The Cove.

Summer Camps

The two campuses both offer a summer camp with open enrollment. The main campus is a summer day camp for 3 years, 8 months to 12 years old. The Burgundy Center campus hosts primarily sleep-away nature-oriented summer camp programs for 8 to 15 year olds and adults.

Notable alumni

References
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  3. "Camay Calloway Murphy's Biography". The HistoryMakers.
  4. Pryor-Trusty, Rosa (2013-05-09). African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-4836-1234-8.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. "Burgundy Farm Country Day School". Turner Brooks Architect. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  6. "Burgundy Farm Campuses". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  7. "About Robert C. Michelson". Georgia Tech Research Institute. Archived from the original on 1997-06-03. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
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  9. "Robotics Guru Saw Uses Early On". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2004-07-26. Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
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  11. "Samira Wiley, Class of 1999 - Nannie Helen Burroughs School". Classmates. 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
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