A CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

The Glebe School is located on sixty-five acres of picturesque farmland in Gloucester, Virginia. This three-hundred-year-old property is called a “glebe”(farmland given to the church by the King of England in the colonial era) and continues to be the home of St. James On-the-Glebe Anglican Church, where the rector and his family live in the historical house on the grounds.

With a dedication to the cultivation of both the liberal arts and the common arts, The Glebe School offers a unique education grounded in tradition and centered on Jesus Christ. The property gives our students room to learn, grow, explore, and imagine as children have for most of history. Our one-room schoolhouse approach focuses on the mastery of traditional skills like cursive penmanship, poetry recitation, and mathematics, while allowing students to have a community and camaraderie beyond age-organized cohorts.

A young boy with short dark hair, wearing a light blue shirt, stands outdoors reading a green book with animal illustrations on the cover, with a tree and a white house with horizontal siding in the background.

A young boy running across a grassy lawn with small white flowers, in front of a white brick house with dormer windows and surrounded by trees.

Four children standing outdoors on a paved area with faint autumn leaves, in front of a white house with a window and door, holding their hands together in prayer or greeting, smiling at the camera.

A priest in a cassock writing on a black chalkboard in a classroom.

Do you want your child to know God’s Goodness, Truth, and Beauty?
Do you want your child to be able to see these in all of Creation, in all areas of study?
Do you want your child to have a heart built on the Christian moral imagination?
Then you are looking for The Glebe School.
Welcome,

- Fr. Raymond Davison, Headmaster

Four boys in light blue button-up shirts and dark pants standing together against a brick wall, smiling for a group photo.

A young girl with red hair smiling and holding a paintbrush and a blue paint bucket, painting a wooden structure outdoors.

A young boy with blond hair and freckles, wearing a pale blue shirt, sitting under a large tree and reading a book.

Two young girls with blonde hair playing on a jungle gym surrounded by green trees in the background.

Group of children in school uniforms running on a dirt path in a park with large trees and green grass on a sunny day.

A rural scene with green grass, a small white barn with a rust-colored roof, surrounded by trees and an open field, under a clear blue sky.

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Adams, in a letter to her son John Quincy

The Glebe School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs. As a related organization of St James On-the-Glebe Anglican Church, The Glebe School respects the applicable policies and governing principles of the Anglican Province of America pertaining to nondiscrimination.

The Glebe School is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

All gifts to support The Glebe School’s mission are tax-deductible.

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A young girl with blonde hair, smiling outdoors in a grassy area with flowers.

Two young boys are working outside, one holding a rake and the other standing nearby, in front of a white house with green trees in the background.