Tatnall School
The Tatnall School is a private college prep school in Greenville, Delaware, 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 Cross Country and Track and Field (winning 34 State Championships since 2003); field hockey, and boy's lacrosse (winning 6 of 22 state championships). The ice hockey team also won 3 consecutive DSHA state championships from 2008-2010. Tatnall's girl's 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 the past eleven years in a row and the boys' team has won the past six. 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.
