School History
A Look Back at 35 Years
Milestones
1987
September 7, 1987
TCS opened with 41 pupils in grades one through three, three full-time teachers, and two full-time staff in space provided by Truro Church.
1989
A second campus was added at Providence Presbyterian Church to accommodate 118 students, grades one through five.
1990
Our second head of school, James L. Beavers, began a tenure of ten years at Trinity.
1997
Trinity served 300 students in grades 1-10 on four separate campuses. The generous giving of faithful individuals permitted us to purchase the 25-acre site on which the Trinity campus now resides.
2001
Trinity graduated its first class of three students and named a new head of school, Dr. Todd Williams. Fifty faculty and staff served 400 students on the school's four campuses in and around Fairfax.
2002
After a capital campaign raised significant funds and the school became the first of its kind in the region to receive approval for tax-exempt bond financing, construction of the new facilities began.
September 2003
Trinity opened the doors to the first building at the new 25-acre campus facility on Braddock Road with 450 students and more than 50 faculty and staff members.
2005
Dr. David Vanderpoel became Trinity's fourth head of school. After 18 years of faithful service, Dr. Vanderpoel retired at the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
September 2009
The second academic building opened with 47,000 square feet of upper school classrooms, a performing arts wing, and a 1,000-seat gymnasium.
January 2012
Trinity unveiled its new mascot, the Gryphon.
2023
Dr. Matt Thomas was appointed Trinity's fifth Head of School.
Today
Trinity has grown to an enrollment of 750 students in kindergarten through grade 12 and an annual operating budget of over eleven million dollars.
Over 1,000 students have graduated from Trinity Christian School since 2001. The school now employs more than 100 full-time and part-time faculty and staff members, with approximately one-half holding advanced degrees.
