Cape Henry Collegiate School
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Cape Henry Collegiate School (also known as Cape Henry or CHCS) is an independent coeducational school in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay...

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Founded in 1924 as the Everett School by Mrs. R.C. Everett, the school enrolls over 1,000 students in pre-kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...

 through 12th grade. The Everett School was renamed Cape Henry Collegiate School in the early 1980s. The current headmaster, Dr. Jack Lewis, replaced Dan Richardson in 2002. Notably, Dr. Jack Lewis raised funding for the 2007 state-of-the-art Science and Technology Center which garnered local news acclaim when its seismograph picked up a recent earthquake in Iran.

Athletics

In the fall of 2008, CHC finished at the top of the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools in field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, girls' tennis and both male and female volleyball. In addition, CHC won two private school state championships in 2008. In 2010, the Boys Baseball Team won their first ever State Championship. In 2011 the girls field hockey, and volleyball teams won the State Championship.

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