Tatnall School facts for kids

The Tatnall School is a private college preparatory private school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware; it has a Wilmington postal address and is adjacent to, but not in, the Greenville census-designated place.

The school is for students from three years old through 12th grade. The school was founded as an all-girls school in 1930 by Frances Dorr Swift Tatnall at her home in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, and moved to its current location in 1952. Tatnall began to admit boys in 1952 (the class of 1964). The school's mascot is the hornet. Its motto is "Omnia in caritate", which means all things in love.

Accreditation

• Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Memberships

• National Association of Independent Schools
• Delaware Association of Independent Schools
• Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools
• National Association for College Admission Counseling
• Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling
• National Middle School Association

Sports

Tatnall competes as a member of the Delaware Independent School Conference in interscholastic sports such as cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, ice hockey, swimming, wrestling, winter track, lacrosse, baseball, golf, tennis, and spring track. Tatnall is particularly strong in Football, Cross Country and Track and Field (winning 48 State Championships since 2003); field hockey, and boys' lacrosse (winning 6 of 22 state championships). The ice hockey team also won 3 consecutive DSHA state championships from 2008 to 2010. Tatnall's girls' cross country team has run in the National Championship 7 times since 2006 and placed third in the nation in fall 2008 and again in 2011. They have also finished fifth (2010), twelfth (2006), thirteenth (2007), and 14th (2009) The girls' cross country team has won the Division II State Championship thirteen years in a row and the boys' team has won ten total team titles. The field hockey team has made it to the DIAA state tournament the past two years, making it to the final four in the 2013 season. The hockey team has also won the 2018 Delaware state hockey championship.

Arts

Tatnall offers a variety of visual and performing arts programs, including photography, drawing, instrumental and vocal performance. In September 2017, Tatnall opened its 23,000 square foot Laird Performing Arts Center. The center boasts a 471-seat theater. Here, the Tatnall arts program puts on its annual Showcase advanced theater class and performance, now in its 48th year. One notable instructor is Wilson Somers, who is also a composer and performer; Somers was also a recipient of an Emmy award in 2000. Students at the school are required to participate in art programs, and have won numerous state awards throughout the years.

2008 election

Tatnall was a Delaware polling booth in the 2008 United States presidential election. Senator Joe Biden (a native Pennsylvanian but Delaware resident since 1953), who lives near the school, cast his vote in Tatnall's main lobby in that election cycle. Some of Joe Biden's grandchildren attend the school.