Tandem Friends School

Tandem School is a Quaker day school located in Charlottesville, Virginia. With a small student body, the school offers a rich curriculum including multiple honors courses and AP courses, laying a solid foundation for students to enter top universities. The school was founded in 1970.

School Advantages:

1. The school is dedicated to helping students develop 21st-century digital life skills for creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking, while preserving the school's unique culture and maintaining a balance between screen time and face-to-face time with teachers and peers.

2. The school is technologically advanced, with technology integrated throughout the curriculum, including digital video editing units, learning to use spreadsheets in math and science courses, and more.

3. The school's Learning Resource Center helps our students ensure successful academic pursuits.

4. Tandem Friends students enjoy endless experiential learning opportunities in the classroom and on campus, utilizing our natural outdoor spaces, streams, and even our bluebird houses as learning laboratories.

5. Sports are excellent, with our scholar-athletes regularly earning all-conference and all-state honors, and our teams frequently winning conference championships. Our boys' basketball team won the conference championship last year, and our volleyball team won the conference championship in 2015. Our girls' soccer team won the state championship (VISAA Division 2) for three consecutive years (2010-2012).

6. Arts are also excellent, with seven theatrical productions, two concerts, open mic performances, art shows, and other musical performances around the community each year.