Letter From the Head of School - Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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Letter From the Head of School - Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child. Students here are active partners in their education, and learning is joyful.
Academics
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From its inception, Burgundy has educated children in innovative ways. Our students learn by doing. The school community and its two campuses offer a nurturing atmosphere that inspire creativity through the arts and develop critical thinking skills with an integrated curriculum and hands-on projects.
Admission
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Burgundy educates children from Junior Kindergarten through grade 8. The admission process begins in the fall prior to the year in which a student enrolls.
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Burgundy doesn’t just refer to our school or our campuses. Burgundy is a beloved community.
The Burgundy Difference
Burgundy Difference
The Burgundy community is united by its commitment to creating a learning community that affirms children for who they are and where they are developmentally and that helps all our students realize their full potential as students and as people.
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The Burgundy that our students and families love and enjoy today is the product of a handful of families doing together what none could have done individually: purchasing land, rehabilitating and raising buildings, hiring a professional faculty.
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Letter From the Head of School
Letter From the Head of School
Welcome! You have discovered a JK-8 school unlike any other in the area! At Burgundy, intellectual excitement and joy in learning are not buzzwords but realities! Our students often are sad when vacation times arrive because they LOVE school at Burgundy.
Burgundy students love school because we understand and honor children’s love of learning. Students’ love of learning remains high year after year as we continue to nurture students’ natural curiosity about the world, people, and living things around them.
It all begins with the individual learner. We treat children like the unique and whole persons they are; we strive to meet them where they are developmentally. The foundation for success is this: We respect and build on children’s lived experience, ensuring that each child feels welcomed and part of a learning community, supported, engaged, and challenged to grow and learn.
Our campuses are an essential component of the Burgundy Advantage.
At our Alexandria campus, a former dairy farm, every indoor learning area opens to outdoor space and woods. Nature is our laboratory for hands-on science and an ideal setting for active learning projects, whether at the Barn, pond, or stream in Alexandria, or at our 506-acre Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies in West Virginia. Our Alexandria campus includes a one-of-a-kind Discovery Playground and other unique outdoor learning structures and spaces. The new Logan Loft is an incredible arts and community center featuring our theater, numerous arts classrooms and gallery space. The Logan Loft front porch and the adjacent campus commons welcome all to Burgundy and provide lovely spaces for meeting, having coffee or a reception, playing, or just reading a book or having a conversation.
The Burgundy Family, like our campus, is a diverse, interesting, beautiful, colorful tapestry. Our students, nearly 40% from diverse backgrounds, learn to be proud of their differences and interested in their commonalities and differences, because our diversity makes us collectively stronger. Our graduates are confident, articulate students who are comfortable in their own skins. Burgundy alumni thrive in a range of exceptional college preparatory high schools and universities, where they are well known, and they enter a range of professions.
At the core of our program’s success are:
A challenging, engaging, integrated, and well rounded academic and co-curricular program;
Excellent teachers who know and love their students and their craft; and
A close educational collaboration between families and the school.
At Burgundy, we live, as we have for nearly 75 years, the tenets of holistic, student-focused, progressive education. We have always taught the whole child. Many schools today avow student-centeredness and individualized instruction, diversity and multiculturalism, and environmental and global awareness as central to their missions. At Burgundy, these values were cornerstones of our school’s founding, and we continue to model them! We invite you to visit our unique Alexandria campus to experience for yourself the magic of Burgundy!
Sincerely,
Burgundy is a one-of-a-kind independent school for Junior Kindergarten through 8th Grade. We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child.
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
703.960.3431
Accredited by:
Affiliated with:
Partners with:
©2026 Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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Links
Veracross Parent Portal
Burgundy's Library
Burgundy Barnyard
Camps
Summer Camp
Nature Camp at BCWS
Blog
Calendar
Shop
Burgundy Spirit Wear
Blazers Fan Gear
Facility Rentals
Contact
About
About
We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child. Students here are active partners in their education, and learning is joyful.
Academics
Academics
From its inception, Burgundy has educated children in innovative ways. Our students learn by doing. The school community and its two campuses offer a nurturing atmosphere that inspire creativity through the arts and develop critical thinking skills with an integrated curriculum and hands-on projects.
Admission
Admission
Burgundy educates children from Junior Kindergarten through grade 8. The admission process begins in the fall prior to the year in which a student enrolls.
B for Burgundy
Community
Community
Burgundy doesn’t just refer to our school or our campuses. Burgundy is a beloved community.
The Burgundy Difference
Burgundy Difference
The Burgundy community is united by its commitment to creating a learning community that affirms children for who they are and where they are developmentally and that helps all our students realize their full potential as students and as people.
Giving
Giving
The Burgundy that our students and families love and enjoy today is the product of a handful of families doing together what none could have done individually: purchasing land, rehabilitating and raising buildings, hiring a professional faculty.
About
Home
>
About
>
Letter From the Head of School
Letter From the Head of School
Welcome! You have discovered a JK-8 school unlike any other in the area! At Burgundy, intellectual excitement and joy in learning are not buzzwords but realities! Our students often are sad when vacation times arrive because they LOVE school at Burgundy.
Burgundy students love school because we understand and honor children’s love of learning. Students’ love of learning remains high year after year as we continue to nurture students’ natural curiosity about the world, people, and living things around them.
It all begins with the individual learner. We treat children like the unique and whole persons they are; we strive to meet them where they are developmentally. The foundation for success is this: We respect and build on children’s lived experience, ensuring that each child feels welcomed and part of a learning community, supported, engaged, and challenged to grow and learn.
Our campuses are an essential component of the Burgundy Advantage.
At our Alexandria campus, a former dairy farm, every indoor learning area opens to outdoor space and woods. Nature is our laboratory for hands-on science and an ideal setting for active learning projects, whether at the Barn, pond, or stream in Alexandria, or at our 506-acre Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies in West Virginia. Our Alexandria campus includes a one-of-a-kind Discovery Playground and other unique outdoor learning structures and spaces. The new Logan Loft is an incredible arts and community center featuring our theater, numerous arts classrooms and gallery space. The Logan Loft front porch and the adjacent campus commons welcome all to Burgundy and provide lovely spaces for meeting, having coffee or a reception, playing, or just reading a book or having a conversation.
The Burgundy Family, like our campus, is a diverse, interesting, beautiful, colorful tapestry. Our students, nearly 40% from diverse backgrounds, learn to be proud of their differences and interested in their commonalities and differences, because our diversity makes us collectively stronger. Our graduates are confident, articulate students who are comfortable in their own skins. Burgundy alumni thrive in a range of exceptional college preparatory high schools and universities, where they are well known, and they enter a range of professions.
At the core of our program’s success are:
A challenging, engaging, integrated, and well rounded academic and co-curricular program;
Excellent teachers who know and love their students and their craft; and
A close educational collaboration between families and the school.
At Burgundy, we live, as we have for nearly 75 years, the tenets of holistic, student-focused, progressive education. We have always taught the whole child. Many schools today avow student-centeredness and individualized instruction, diversity and multiculturalism, and environmental and global awareness as central to their missions. At Burgundy, these values were cornerstones of our school’s founding, and we continue to model them! We invite you to visit our unique Alexandria campus to experience for yourself the magic of Burgundy!
Sincerely,
Burgundy is a one-of-a-kind independent school for Junior Kindergarten through 8th Grade. We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child.
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
703.960.3431
Accredited by:
Affiliated with:
Partners with:
©2026 Burgundy Farm Country Day School
Designed and developed by
The Design Channel
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