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Landon School is a private, college preparatory school for boys in grades 3–12, with an enrollment of approximately 680 students, in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D. C.

Paul Landon Banfield and his wife, Mary Lee, founded Landon School in 1929. The school's first location was a former residence in the Sheridan Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D. C., now home to the Embassy of Estonia. Banfield moved Landon to its present campus in Bethesda in 1935. The farmhouse, stables, and barn from the previous use of the Bethesda property still stand on the campus and are used today. In September 2022, as a part of the Landon School's redesign of its campus, the 100 year old Andrews House was relocated in order to make space for the new Boehly Upper School building. Moving the 9,000 square foot, 1,100 ton historic building was a delicate operation that required months of planning. The school has a reputation for cultivating athletes.

Landon School is a college preparatory school for boys in grades 3 12. The school's daily schedule is from 8:00 a. m. – 3:40 p. m., with flexible and extended hours for before/aftercare and athletics. The school states that the schedule for each division is age appropriately designed to maximize students' most attentive hours. The Lower School schedule includes periods for each subject, consisting of language arts, science, social studies, math, music, and ethics classes, broken up by movement opportunities, athletics training, and quiet reading time. Middle School and Upper School utilize rotating block schedules that are similarly designed to maximize students' attention, with breaks for movement and club meetings in between. In 2023, the School plans to move the sixth grade from the Middle School to the Lower School. 84% of the Class of 2022 is attending a college or university where they applied for early decision or early action. Funded by its namesake Cary M. Maguire '46, the Maguire Ethics Scholarship Program awards a merit based scholarship of $10,000 to a student entering Upper School who demonstrates the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and character. Scholarships are available to both new applicants and current eighth grade students.

The school offers 22 athletics options, including varsity interscholastic sports such as swimming, soccer, water polo, football, cross country, ice hockey, wrestling, basketball, baseball, track, tennis, golf, rugby and lacrosse. Landon also offers interscholastic club sports such as riflery, sailing, fencing, squash and ultimate Frisbee, as well as intramural sports and strength and conditioning. In collaboration with Holton Arms School, Landon School performs three productions per year, a musical and a non musical. In addition to acting, students can learn lighting, sound and set design. The School offers theatrical class, boys Improv Club and Director's Workshop where students can create and direct their own original play. Additionally, the school teaches arts such as painting, advanced drawing, architecture, ceramics, digital art, sculpture and photojournalism. Students can submit their work to regional and national competitions or to the school's on campus magazine entitled, Prometheus Unbound. During the COVID 19 pandemic, Landon students used their time outside of the classroom to assist those in need. Upper School student TJ Kim started "Operation Supplies Over Skies," allowing him to use his pilot's license to deliver donated medical supplies to remote hospitals in need. Storm Templeton started a small community project and then it developed into a larger community effort to deliver face shields to D. C. firefighters while Alex Henderson crafted masks for nurses and first responders.

Landon competes in the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) alongside six other all boys' schools in D. C., MD, and VA. The IAC consists of 12 sports: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and wrestling. The School's 75 acre campus includes two gymnasiums, a wrestling room, a 5,500 square foot strength and conditioning area, a turf field with a track, four grass fields, 10 outdoor tennis courts, two baseball fields, an outdoor swimming pool, two miles of cross country trails, and a riflery range. The ice hockey team practices at the Bears' Den at Rockville Ice Arena.

In 2017, Landon was in the top 2 of USA Today Super 25 boys lacrosse rankings.

Landon School wrestler Joel Brown was named All Met Wrestler of the Year by The Washington Post, after a 32 3 season. In 2023, The Landon School's wrestling team won the Interstate Athletic Conference title, its fourth since 2018. 13 of 14 Landon wrestlers reached the finals, eight of whom won their final matches.

The Landon School's hockey team won the Interstate Athletic Conference title in February 2023. The team defeated Bullis to claim the win after a tied score forced a shootout. The Hershey Bears hockey team signed Landon School alumnus Sam Anas to play in the 2022 2023 season. In 2011, Anas led the Landon Bears in a 25 0 1 season.

In 2022, The Landon School's soccer team beat St. Albans to win the Interstate Athletic Conference championship. Landon School alumnus Kristian Fletcher signed a contract in 2022 to play professional soccer for D. C. United. While playing for Landon School, Fletcher was named the All Met Player of the Year in boys' soccer by The Washington Post.

In 2016, The Landon baseball team won its first Interstate Athletic Conference title since 2011, beating Bullis by a score of 8 4.