Honor System

The heart of the Woodberry experience is the honor system. Since 1899 Woodberry boys have been pledging to not lie, cheat, or steal. These pledges create a system of brotherhood and safety — if a boy leaves a bicycle, laptop, or wallet somewhere on campus, it will be there when he returns —but the honor system is about far more than protecting possessions. The real goal of the honor system is to create a moral community based on trust, one where a boy is taken at his word. It allows students to be trusted completely by teachers and classmates and lets the whole school build a community of fairness to further strengthen our top boarding school for boys. The honor system assures that Woodberry values character development as much as academic rigor.

We hold this high standard of behavior to encourage the transformation of boys into Woodberry men.

Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.

Woodberry Forest, VA 22989
Phone: 540-672-3900

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Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.