Georgetown Day School
Location
Washington, DC,  United States
Information
Religion	Non-sectarian
Headmaster	Peter Branch
Faculty	165
Average class size	16
Student:teacher ratio	6:1
Average SAT scores (NA)	NA
Type	Private Preparatory School
Campus	Housed on two separate campuses in northwest Washington, D.C. Both campuses feature libraries, full-size gymnasiums and athletic fields, black box theaters, fully equipped science labs, art studios, technology/multimedia labs, and student lounges and activity areas. Both facilities have elevators and are fully handicapped-accessible. 10 overall acres 2 buildings For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ...
Athletics	14 Interscholastic Sports 63 Interscholastic Teams
Athletics conference	Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (Boys) Independent School League (Girls)
Mascot	Mighty Hopper (Grasshopper) Green Monster
Color(s)	Green and White
Established	1945
Enrollment	1100 (grades PreK-12)
Homepage	www.gds.org

Georgetown Day School is an independent, PreK-12 school in Washington, DC. It is familiarly called "GDS," or less frequently "Georgetown Day;" the high school is sometimes abbreviated GDHS. GDS was founded in 1945 as the first integrated school in the District. The lower and middle schools (grades pre-kindergarten to eight) are located in the Palisades neighborhood, while the high school is located several miles away in Tenleytown. The school enrolls approximately 1000 students in any given year and graduates about 120 seniors each year. GDS is known for a strong emphasis on the arts and its historical success in high school policy debate and quizbowl. (It was the #1 school in the nation at debate in 2006.^{[citation needed]}) Because it believes that students and teachers are partners in education, everyone at the school — students, faculty, and administrators — goes by first names. The current head of school is Peter M. Branch. The Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC) is an American high school athletic league comprised of private schools in the Washington, D.C. area. ... The Independent School League or ISL is a group of seventeen United States, (Washington, D.C.-area), preparatory schools that compete with each other athletically. ... An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Pre-Kindergarten (also called Pre-K) refers to the first formal academic classroom-based learning environment that a child customarily attends in the United States. ... The Palisades is a neighborhood in Washington, DC, overlooking the Potomac River between Chain Bridge and Key Bridge, bisected by MacArthur Boulevard. ... Tenleytown is the historic name for a neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC. It is the second oldest neighborhood in Washington, being surpassed in age only by Georgetown. ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two debate whether or not a specific policy action should be enacted. ... Churchill College - Cambridge plays York on University Challenge, a televised quizbowl programme. ...

Running

Georgetown Day School's Varsity Track coach, Anthony Belber, was named in May 2006 the top boys' track coach in the area by The Washington Post after leading the team to consecutive victories at the spring Track & Field MAC Championships. Anthony Belber also coaches Varsity Cross Country in the fall. He led this team to consecutive victories at the Cross Country MAC Championships as well. In addition to coaching running year round, Belber is a third grade teacher at the school.

Famous & Noteworthy Graduates

• Sam Endicott, guitarist and vocalist for The Bravery
• Bovice Jackson, first professional African American cage fighting superstar
• Brian Baker, musician in Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, and Bad Religion
• Suzanne Berne, novelist
• Max Blumenthal, blogger and journalist
• Jeff Borkin, television writer
• Sean Fine, Oscar-winning filmmaker
• Ruben Fleischer, television producer
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist
• Marc Ganzglass, sculptor
• Andrew Sean Greer, author
• Chris Hepler, television writer
• Tessa Horst, winner of The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman
• Brian Kraft, musician and photographer
• Judy Kuhn, actress
• Daniel F. Levin, composer, lyricist, writer
• Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
• Sam Means, 2006 Emmy winner for writing on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show"
• Guy Picciotto, guitarist and vocalist for Fugazi
• Michael Portnoy, multimedia artist, musician, actor
• Lyle Preslar, guitarist for Minor Threat
• Jamin Raskin, law professor and author
• Alice Randall, author (The Wind Done Gone)
• Matt Safer, bassist for The Rapture
• Melissa Sagemiller, actress, recently in "The Guardian" with Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner
• Dina Sansing, celebrity journalist
• Raphael Talisman, photojournalist
• Kyle Marcus, known doll collector
• Mark Thompson, TV personality/meteorologist
• Olivia Wilde, "The Black Donnelly's" actress (attended through 8th grade)
• Laurin Wittig, author
• Jesseca Salky, literary agent for the stars

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Famous & Noteworthy Parents

• Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton
• Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton White House counsellor
• Art Buchwald, humorist
• Len Downie, Washington Post editor
• Jamie Gangel, Today Show correspondent
• Dan Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture and President of the MPAA
• Phil Gramm, U.S. Senator from Texas
• Jane Harman, Congresswoman from California
• Seymour M. Hersh, Journalist, Pulitzer-Prize winner
• Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental lawyer, son of Robert Kennedy, former Senator from New York
• Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist
• Saul Landau, commentator on Pacifica and Institute for Policy Studies affiliate
• Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
• Ted Lerner, Washington Nationals owner
• Joe Lockhart, White House press secretary during Bill Clinton's second term from 1998-2000
• Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court justice
• Walter Mondale, Senator from Minnesota and Vice-President of The United States
• Greg Munford, Lead singer of "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock
• Edith Nash, poet and educator
• Philleo Nash, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Norman Ornstein, pundit at the American Enterprise Institute
• Jack Quinn, White House Counsel from 1995-1996
• Marcus Raskin, author and co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies
• Laurie Robinson, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General to Janet Reno
• Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States
• Daniel Silva, author
• Larry Summers, former President of Harvard University and former Treasury Secretary
• Tom Toles, Washington Post political cartoonist
• Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, former U.S Ambassador to Russia and NATO
• Judith Viorst, children's book writer and poet
• Juan Williams, journalist
• Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator from Oregon

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