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McCallie School is a single-sex college preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Founded in 1905 by the two sons of a Presbyterian minister, the school receives day students in grades 6-12 and boarding students in grades 9-12. It now has an enrollment of nearly 900 students. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently called McCallie "one of the leading secondary institutions in the United States."
The school still retains a focus on spiritual life, although not an exclusively Christian one. It became a military school during WWI, common among private schools at that time. The military program ended in 1970.
Famous alumni include: billionaire Ted Turner; former Senator and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker Jr.; Ralph McGill, former Pulitzer-Prize winning editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell Jr.; evangelist and Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson.
The school's current headmaster is Kirk Walker (appointed in 1999), the first headmaster to be outside of the McCallie family.
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