Welcome to
The Potomac School!

Welcome to the Potomac community. We invite you to join us in the joys and challenges of learning and growing. We believe that Intellectual and moral excellence is achieved through the active participation of many people in diverse roles who bring to our community a wide range of expertise and experience.

Geoff Jones
Geoff Jones, Head of School

Our students and faculty blend rigorous academic studies and exchanges into lives lived fully and committed to making a difference. In this regard, knowledge, honor, courage, and service stand out as elements of character important in our daily lives and to our children's future. Potomac preserves its historical vision, gives that vision vitality in changing times, and embeds its ideals in every succeeding generation.

Our new Upper School facilities are part of a comprehensive Master Plan which offers our entire community opportunities to grow. This plan strengthens our vision of a cohesive, interconnected K -12 commitment to learning best by learning together. We know our greatest strength is the relationship between students and teachers that evolves in the course of day-to-day activities and through the years of a young person's life in the school.

Exemplary schools encourage people to envision and achieve excellence. Working as a team exceptional teachers and engaged students ensure a dynamic and ever-growing learning community. I invite you to share in the Potomac experience. Please explore our Web site and come visit us.

Sincerely,

Geoffrey Jones
Head of School

Mission Statement

The School's mission is to foster each student's intellectual development, love of learning, and strength of character within an inclusive community distinguished by a spirit of support and challenge.

We encourage students to become independent thinkers and learners. The School's richly varied curriculum draws students beyond a mastery of fundamental skills toward the rewards in inquiry, initiative and reflection. Believing that aesthetic and physical development are essential to an education, we offer students opportunities to excel in art and music classes, on stage, and on the athletic fields.

We strive for diversity in the conviction that a learning community is intellectually and morally strengthened when many different voices, viewpoints and backgrounds are present.

We expect students to act with kindness, civility, and generosity of spirit, and, in our daily activities, we find opportunities to foster their integrity of character and civic conscience. More than mere tolerance, this standard calls students to act with compassion for others and to reach beyond the school in service to the community.

As we prepare students for a rapidly changing and demanding society, we encourage them to reflect on the beauty that surrounds them and to enjoy the company of their friends and the many traditions celebrated at school.