The Glenelg Manor was built on a part of land patented as "Dorsey's Grove" in 1721. Glenelg Manor houses the Glenelg Country School elementary division. The original structure of the house dates from the second half of the 18th century, and may have been built by Ephraim Howard. The estate passed to Tyson's son Henry H. Tyson, followed by the Knox family in 1900. William Bladen Lowndes, son of Maryland governor Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., purchased the estate in 1915 and added amenities such as outdoor projectors, golf course, and diesel generators. After Lowndes died in 1941, the property was sold to Rowland D. and George R. Zaiser of Wilton Farm Dairy for farming. In 1956 the estate was subdivided into a smaller parcel to be leased out as a school. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Glenelg Country School
The original building was rented in 1954 when the Glenelg Country School was founded by Kingdon Gould, Jr. and his wife Mary Thorne Gould, along with Mr. and Mrs. John T. Mason, Jr., Judge James Macgill and Mr. and Mrs. William Shippen. Marjorie Dunn was the first Headmistress for Glenelg Country School, serving 1954–1956. Subsequent Headmaster/Headmistress: Beatrice Pfefferkorn ; Edward L. Jones ; Peter T. Terry ; Thomas J. Barlow ; Frederic W. Rhinelander ; Charles H. Miller, Jr. ; Ryland O. Chapman III ; and Gregory J. Ventre. In 2014, County Executive Ken Ulman proposed CR-121-2014 in his last weeks of pre-election activities. The bill would finance eight million dollars of an expansion and revitalization of the athletic facilities, a two–story press box, grandstands and restoration of existing tennis courts and athletic center floors. It included the renovation and restoration of buildings and the Historic Manor House.
Overview
750 students age 2 through grade 12
111 faculty members, 11 assistant teachers; 65% of faculty hold advanced degrees
College Placement: 2 full-time college counselors; Class of 2015 SAT average score of 1846; 100% of seniors are accepted to four-year colleges or universities; the class of 2015 was awarded over $5.8 million in merit scholarships
Athletics
2006 - Varsity Girls Tennis won the IAAM B Conference Championship
2006 - Ice Hockey won the MIAA C Conference Championship
2007 - Varsity Boys Basketball won the MIAA C Conference Championship
2007 - Women's Cross Country won the Private School's State Championship
2008 - Varsity Tennis won the MIAA B Conference Championship; the team also brought home two individual titles
2008 - Ice Hockey won the MIAA B Conference Championship
2010 - Varsity Golf won the MIAA B Conference Championship
2010 - Varsity Boys Lacrosse makes MIAA B Conference Championship for first time in program history
Music and art classes begin at age 2 and continue through twelfth grade. Music classes include: chorus; recorder ensembles; bell choirs; bands; a jazz ensemble; a woodwind trio; a string quartet; Lower, Upper School plays; Middle and Upper School musicals, with 50% of Upper School students participating in the performing arts. There are music rooms in each division and a 350-seat Mulitz Theater with a scenery shop and dressing rooms. Art classes include: painting, drawing, film and digital photography, ceramics, wood-working, metals, and other specialized classes. Each division has a studio space. The Upper School has separate 2-D and 3-D facilities and a black/white photography lab.
