Green Hedges: Administrative Office

Welcome from our interim head of school

We are grateful to you for learning more about Green Hedges School, an independent, coeducational day school for students in Montessori ages 2, 3, and 4 and Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 8. Green Hedges is a dynamic place, animated by the young people who bring their curiosity, energy, intellect, and creativity on a daily basis and by the outstanding faculty and staff who shape the teaching and learning process in ways that respect, engage, challenge, and nourish them. Confident that you will feel that dynamism and warmth the moment you step onto our beautiful five-acre campus nestled in the Historic Windover Heights neighborhood of Vienna, Virginia, we encourage you to arrange a visit.

For more than 80 years, Green Hedges School has honored and nurtured the mission of our founders, Frances and Kenton Kilmer, to provide a challenging academic core enhanced by world languages, the arts, and athletics to promote the healthy cognitive, intellectual, social, and emotional growth of our students. The result is a school environment thoughtfully designed for young learners in which preschool, elementary, and middle school children thrive. In this small-school setting in which young people value being known and respected as unique individuals and learners, Green Hedges students grow in strength and confidence with the nourishment and guidance of their teachers. Our outstanding faculty and staff design learning experiences that promote our Core Values: Achieve Distinction, Explore Opportunities, Inspire Character, and Become Yourself. Our rich academic program sparks curiosity and joy in intellectual discovery, a way of thinking and being that shapes the lives of Green Hedges students here in the present as well as into their high school years and beyond, as they meet new challenges with thoughtfulness, confidence, and integrity.

Proud to be part of this remarkable community, I invite you to visit Green Hedges to learn first-hand how we inspire young people of talent and promise to develop clear values, a desire for wisdom, and an appreciation for all endeavors which broaden the mind and enlighten the spirit.

Peter Barrett

Peter A. Barrett

Peter A. Barrett
Interim Head of School 2025-2026

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