Virginia Episcopal School is a college preparatory school located in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. It was founded in 1916 by Bishop Robert Carter Jett. By design, VES is a coeducational community of approximately 200 students and 40 residential faculty. Virginia Episcopal School's 160-acre (0.65 km²) campus is near the James River along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
By design, VES is a small academic community of students and residential faculty.
 
The school was first conceived in 1916, by Robert Carter Jett, and was founded the same year.

Dr. Jett conceived the first buildings on the VES campus while riding a train in Raleigh, North Carolina. There, he drew his architectural view of the campus on the back of an envelope. You might recognize the outline of his drawings in the framework of Main Hall, which opened in September 1916. Three years later, the chapel opened, thanks to a generous donation by Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, followed by the "Little Gym" in the 1930s, which is rumored to be based on the measurements of King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.
Our student body has grown significantly from those early days, and now includes young men and women from all over the country and the world. Each day, we live out the vision of Dr. Jett - continually striving, constantly growing, but in a comfortable, supportive environment that is in so many ways like home.
 

• Erskine Bowles - Former Chief of Staff under President Clinton
• Godfrey Cheshire III - Movie Critic and Filmmaker
• Steve Cowper - Former Governor of Alaska
• Hardy Cross Dillard - Former Judge of the International Court of Justice
• William B. Harrison, Jr. - Former CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase
• D. Holmes Morton - Physician
• Paul Taylor - Choreographer