Home Foxhall Project Project History FAQ’s Fact Sheet BZA Application Traffic Reports Environmental Info Archaeology Arborist Reports Operations Plan CHNA Provisions Key Team Members Barnes Vanze Elm Street Development Wells & Associates Sasaki Associates St. Patrick's About St. Patrick's Contact Us	About St. Patricks Episcopal Day School www.stpatsdc.org St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School, with a near fifty-year history in Washington D.C., educates children in Nursery through Grade 8. Across its history, St. Patrick’s has established itself, as stated in our mission statement, as a place that recognizes the infinite value of every participant as a child of God and strives to create an atmosphere of trust and cooperation in which to nourish each child's growth toward personal integrity and a lifetime of service. Exceptional Literacy in all arenas—language arts and history, mathematics and science, religion, music, art, and technology—provides the core tenet around which we construct our curriculum and promote academic excellence. Founded in 1956, St. Patrick’s began its life as a Nursery School located in the old St. Patrick’s Church at the intersection of Foxhall Road and Reservoir Road. In 1967, the school began adding elementary grades, graduating its first Grade 6 class in 1974. In 1977, the elementary school moved to its current home on Whitehaven Parkway. In September 2001, the school opened Grade 7 and, one year later, Grade 8. The first Grade 8 class graduated in 2003. Today, 480 students attend St. Patrick’s on two campuses in the Palisades neighborhood of the District of Columbia. Students in Nursery through Grade 6 attend classes on the Whitehaven Campus which features the main academic building, a gymnasium, three playgrounds, and a playing field. Grades 7 and 8 students attend classes in a beautifully renovated Victorian building approximately one-half mile away on MacArthur Boulevard. Whether on the MacArthur Campus or the Whitehaven Campus, there is a constancy in our larger purpose focused on developing character, advancing human understanding, and promoting academic excellence for all of our students. We hope you will take the time to learn more about St. Patrick’s, both as it exists in the present and as it emerges in the future. About St. Patricks Episcopal Church stpatrickschurchdc.org St. Patrick's was founded as a mission of St. Alban's Parish in 1911 to serve Episcopalians in the area who found it difficult to travel in the pre-automobile era. The original red brick chapel was located across from Greenwich Parkway on Foxhall Road. Built in 1914, this structure was torn down in 1927 and a new Gothic chapel was built on the Northeast corner of Greenwich Parkway and Foxhall Road. Additions and renovations were made in 1953 and 1966. To accommodate an expanding parish and to consolidate church and school activities, the decision was made to move to the present location. The new church, which received several design awards, was occupied in 1985. St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School was founded in 1956 as a parish school. The addition of elementary grades to the kindergarten and nursery school began in 1966. The school, with over 400 students, now goes through the eighth grade. The school and the Church are located on the same site. The Rev. F. Ernest Warren came to St. Patrick's in 1933 as Vicar and he served as the first rector when St. Patrick's became an independent parish in 1946. Other former rectors include the Rev. John F. Stevens, the Rev. Wm. R. Williams, the Rev. Thomas D. Bowers, the Rev. Christopher R. Sherrill and the Rev. S. James Steen. The seventh rector, the Rev. Elizabeth S. McWhorter began her ministry at St. Patrick's on September 1, 1995. In the future, as in the past, St. Patrick's will offer the opportunity for enriching lives and the challenge to face up to changing social responsibilities. Back To Top - - Friends of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School LLC (“FOSP”) is a private, limited liability corporation which was formed to purchase the property at 1801 Foxhall Road, N.W. in order to donate it to the Vestry of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Parish (“Parish”) for the purpose of building a middle school/high school campus for St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School (“School”).  FOSP has donated approximately one-half of the property to the Parish and intends to sell the remainder to a for-profit developer for the construction of a residential development.  Neither the Parish nor the School are members of the FOSP and neither have any control, direct or indirect, over the FOSP or the construction of the residential development.