Ben Lippen School


Ben Lippen School is private K-12 Christian school located in Columbia, South Carolina.

History

The school was founded in 1940 by the trustees of Columbia International University as an evangelical school for boys.
Ben Lippen is a private, interdenominational Christian school located on the CIU campus. It was founded as a boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina in the 1940s, but it was moved to its current location in 1988, offering middle and high school programs. An elementary school away from the main CIU campus was begun in 1989, and in 2006 a main elementary school campus was completed on CIU grounds and classes began there in August. The schools are co-educational and feature a mix of commuting and resident students. In 2013, there were nearly 800 students enrolled at the school