National Cathedral School (NCS) is an independent Episcopal private day school for girls in grades 4–12 located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by philanthropist and suffragist Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee in 1900, NCS is the oldest of the institutions constituting the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation.
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NCS has about 580 students in grades 4 through 12. Its mascot is the eagle. Its brother school, St. Albans, and the shared coeducational elementary school (K–3), Beauvoir, are also located on the 57-acre (230,000 m2) Cathedral Close in Northwest Washington near the Washington National Cathedral. Elinor Scully is the twelfth Head of School.
Notable alumnae
Bella Alarie 2016, former WNBA player with the Dallas Wings
Ashton Applewhite '70. best-selling author, journalist, ageism expert and advocate
Judith Barcroft, actress, All My Children and other soap operas
Sydney Barta 2022, 2020 US Paralympian Track and Field
Esther Brimmer, foreign policy expert and past Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Mary Bruce (journalist),
Beverly Byron '50, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Md.), 1978–1993
Amanda Cassatt 2009, journalist and entrepreneur
Paula Clark, Episcopal Bishop of Chicago
Liz Clarke, sportswriter
Kate Collins, actress
Ethel Roosevelt Derby, civil rights spokesperson
Karen C. Fox, science writer
Karenna Gore '91, author, journalist, and attorney
Kristin Gore '95, author and Emmy-nominated screenwriter
Libby Fischer Hellmann, mystery writer
Alice Hill '74, policy maker and academic
Katharine Holmes, Olympic fencer at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Alice S. Huang, biologist, former president of AAAS
Naomi Iizuka, Japanese-American playwright, professor at UCSB
Luci Baines Johnson, '65, daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, '62, daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Kate Kelly '93, journalist and author
Kara Kennedy, filmmaker and television producer
Heather Langenkamp, actress, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jenny Lin, Taiwanese-American pianist
Maya MacGuineas, political writer and President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Leslie Marshall, journalist and novelist
Petra Mayer '94, journalist and book reviewer
Caroline Adams Miller, coach, speaker, and author
Queen Noor of Jordan, née Lisa Halaby, writer, activist
Michelle Nunn, non-profit executive; former political candidate
Cristina Odone, Italian journalist, editor, writer
Alexandra Petri, op-ed columnist and writer of the ComPost Blog at the Washington Post
Brenda Putnam, sculptor
Stephanie Ready, professional and college basketball broadcaster; first woman to coach US men's professional basketball
Helene Reynolds, actress in the 1940s
Susan Rice, former director of the Domestic Policy Council, National Security Advisor, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Ruth Starr Rose, painter
Sandra Scarr, former chair of the psychology department at University of Virginia
Trish Sie, music video, commercial, and feature film director (Pitch Perfect 3)
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Tejshree Thapa, Human rights attorney and lifelong advocate for women and children
Caroline Thompson, screenwriter, Edward Scissorhands
Elizabeth Walton Vercoe, musician, educator, and composer
Margaret Hicks Williams 1918, government official, writer, political expert
Robin Witt, theater director
Notable former faculty
Gladys Milligan, art instructor
Lola Sleeth Miller, art instructor