By 1936, Lovett had become a day school, with a move to a wooded campus north of the city off West Wesley Road.

In 1992, Lovett's philosophy was rewritten, a mission statement was developed, and the school also purchased 320 acres of cloudforest, known as Siempre Verde, in Ecuador for the purpose of establishing a research and education center.

[5] When the school responded that it would admit a black student, her son, Martin Luther King III applied.

[5] At the center of this long ago debate were the school's ties to the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, which had been established in 1954.

The national Episcopal Church had issued directives to its member dioceses to integrate their institutions; the Lovett School's refusal to do so placed the bishop of Atlanta, the Rt.