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      <title>Fredericksburg Academy: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every senior at Fredericksburg Academy has to find a master. It is part of how you graduate. You pick a topic in your freshman year - astrophysics, ballet, marine biology, woodworking, whatever you want - and you spend the next four years building toward an Exhibit project that requires you to apprentice with someone who actually does the thing, for at least thirty hours, before you create your own work and present it in the school's 413-seat theater. No other school in the Fredericksburg area requires this. It is what the academy is for.]]></description>
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      <title>Fredericksburg Academy: How It Started</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fredericksburg Academy opened in 1992 as a coeducational independent school serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The Gladys T. Quarles Charitable Trust played a central role in the founding, and in 2007 the school's lower and middle school facility was formally renamed...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The academy offers Advanced Placement courses in fifteen subjects, beginning sophomore year - from AP Chemistry and AP Calculus BC through AP Latin, AP Studio Art, and AP Computer Science. Athletics run at three levels - varsity, junior varsity, and middle school - with some vars...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the air the Fredericksburg Academy campus reads as a small cluster of brick buildings and athletic fields just off Interstate 95, about two miles south of central Fredericksburg in southern Stafford County. The Rappahannock River runs nearby; the river's curves and the spire...]]></description>
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