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Welcome!

It is a pleasure to welcome you to St. Albans. Each day as the school’s headmaster, I more deeply appreciate the culture and values of this warm, vibrant, and aspirational community.

Many students are attracted to St. Albans because of our reputation for academic excellence and our rigorous college preparatory program. By the time our boys graduate, they see that their time here was about something more. It is this—the transformation of a young man’s vision, values, and character—that is the promise of a St. Albans education.

We expect a great deal from our students, believing that boys have the capacity for rich intellectual, moral, and emotional lives. They rise to these expectations because we see the best in every boy and insist that they see the best in themselves.

As an Episcopal school that welcomes students of all faiths, we are an intentionally diverse community that believes in the essential dignity of every student and the vital importance of a child’s moral and spiritual growth. St. Albans boys aspire to be accomplished scholars, athletes, and artists, but also good men: thoughtful, empathetic, honorable, humane, and generous of spirit. They graduate prepared to lead thoughtfully and compassionately, to pursue wisdom, and to serve causes greater than themselves.

As a school located beside Washington National Cathedral overlooking the nation’s capital, we are always looking upward and outwards, drawing our boys into lives of thoughtful engagement with the highest spiritual and civic ideals. But underlying this is where the soul of the school is ultimately found: in the abiding sense of warmth, community, and joy that fills our students with genuine affection for one another and lifelong devotion to their school. Only time spent on our campus can fully capture the intangible qualities that make this such a dynamic, close-knit community. I invite all who are new to St. Albans to come visit us, and I look forward to welcoming you personally.

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About the Headmaster

Jason Robinson became the eighth headmaster of our school on July 1, 2018. In his tenure, he has introduced a new strategic plan, funded the expansion of the historic Little Sanctuary, guided St. Albans through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Raised in Virginia, Robinson received a B.A. in philosophy from Washington and Lee, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.A. in government from the University of Virginia, where he served as chair of the Honor Committee. After receiving a J.D. from Stanford Law School, Robinson held a judicial clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in Baltimore, Md., and practiced corporate law at D.C.’s Covington and Burling, where he met his wife, Olinda Arias Robinson. In 2004, he left the legal profession to begin a career in education, first at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., where he taught government and a humanities course that spanned English, history, art, philosophy, and cultural studies, and he coached basketball and baseball. He then went on to teach history, politics, constitutional law, and ethics at the Lawrenceville School, in New Jersey, where he chaired the Interdisciplinary Studies Program; chaired the Discipline and Honor Committees; coached basketball, baseball, and golf; and served as a housemaster, living with Olinda and their two daughters in a student residence in the school’s historic House System.

In 2013 he was named head of upper school at Princeton Day School, and in 2015 his duties expanded as he added the title assistant head of school for academics, responsible for the development, assessment, and coordination of the academic program for one thousand students in prekindergarten through grade twelve. Jason and his wife, Olinda, have two daughters.