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Everyone talks about the family feeling at Darlington. The School's English house system, unique among American boarding schools, places all students and teachers into six Houses. Resident students learn to live with others in the Houses and to appreciate others' needs and differences. A head of house and his or her residential staff supervise each of the six single-sex houses. The dean of students oversees the overall operation of the entire House community, and, together with the heads of house, is responsible for the quality of life in the Houses.
Within the Houses, day and boarding student prefects serve in leadership roles where they have various responsibilities that include managing the House, organizing dances, offering tutorial assistance to members of the House who are struggling academically, coordinating weekend trips, etc.
Parents may view grades, averages, assignments, comments, conduct issues, and their child's permanent record as often as they wish by accessing a student's confidential Web page via the School's Intranet. The intellectually stimulating life of the Houses, from informal discussion sessions and extracurricular traditions like the school-wide reading project, ensures constant and enjoyable intellectual growth beyond the boundaries of the classroom. Darlington students help others through the community service program in each House. By serving in a soup kitchen, tutoring a young child, collecting cans of food, taking on responsibility for cleaning up part of the campus, working with deaf students, reading to the elderly, or volunteering for one of many other opportunities to serve, students build an invincible moral character while bringing joy and blessing into the lives of others.
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Darlington day parents welcome boarding students into their families as well. The Rome Parents Program pairs each boarding student with a local family. Offering a home away from home, Rome parents include students in their regular family lives.
There are also plenty of opportunities for boarding and day students to socialize outside the Houses through various campus-wide organizations like Amnesty International, IMPACT, Chess Club, International Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Scholar Bowl, to name a few. With an average of 50 international students, Darlington also provides wonderful opportunities for international friendships and travel.