As one of Virginia’s leading independent schools, Carlisle School transforms curious minds into great leaders. With approximately 350 students, the school blends the intimacy of a safe and positive family atmosphere with exceptional academic and cultural opportunities usually found only at larger schools.
In the Admissions Office, our goal is to ensure that your family gets to know our school. We invite you to tour our campus, meet our talented faculty and staff, experience our classrooms, and explore the opportunities for the arts and athletics so that you may understand what we are achieving at Carlisle School.
We are hopeful that your experiences will lead you to join the Carlisle School family. Come share the opportunity expressed in our motto: LEAD. EXCEL. SUCCEED.
“I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Carlisle school through two different perspectives, one as a faculty member and more recently as a parent. I have come to think less of it as a job and more as an intellectual opportunity. It has provided me with a great educational foundation that I want for my own children. In fact, we enrolled our daughter in the preschool program this year and it was a decision that has validated our feelings about the Carlisle Experience.”
Juliana Carter
Mom to Maryn
“The student and teacher relationships are special and helped me open up. It makes me feel comfortable and safer, knowing that the teachers are doing everything they can to help the students here succeed.”
Hadden Probst
Student, Class of 2021
We have been a part of the Carlisle family since 2013. The boys and I visited for a tour of the school that year, and they have been there ever since. The boys were in Pre-K3 then and are currently 7th graders. Our love for the school has continued to grow every year. The curriculum supersedes any other in the area and is phenomenal. Faculty and staff are hands-on, readily available, and phenomenal. Carlisle School is just simply phenomenal. If you are interested in a stellar education, along with a caring environment, then Carlisle is the place for you and your family 💛💙
Tiffany Hairston
Mom to Kendrick and Karter
“Our experience at Carlisle has been outstanding! With three children with three very different personalities enrolled, their individual learning needs, strengths, weaknesses, and interests are met in a friendly and supportive environment allowing them to grow and succeed.”
Jessica Zagol
Mom to Tom, Charlotte, and Lorelei
“At Carlisle, I’ve found that you will not only get an education you can be proud of while having teachers that truly care about you, but you will also always be part of a family here.”
Jameson Smith
Student, Class of 2022
“Carlisle is important to me because the education given is beyond a typical private school. It is the dream of how education should be, and the character/moral education is helping me raise my daughter into a human being I am so proud of all the way through.”