[1] The school accepts students from kindergarten to the eight grade at its main campus.
[5] The school opened in 1976, but its roots date to 1966 with the groundbreaking for Immanuel Baptist Church in northern Virginia.
[7] In January 2019, Karen Pence, wife of the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, returned to teach art part-time,[8] after a six-year absence from the school, where she previously taught for 12 years.
[10] The school's employment application requires an affirmation of Christian faith and bars moral misconduct, which it defines to include, among others, "homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity.
"[11] The attention the school received as a result of this caused a media debate as to whether their policies are discriminatory.