Senate Page Program

We welcome the application of any High School Junior (and at least 16 years old) from the State of Maine to the United States Senate Page School.

For more information about the duties, responsibilities and selection process for Pages in the US Senate, please read this online document.

"For more than 100 years, messengers known as Pages have served the United States Congress. Pages are appointed and sponsored by a member of Congress and must be high school juniors and at least sixteen years old. Senate Page duties consist primarily of delivery of correspondence and legislative material within the Congressional complex. Other duties include preparing the chamber for Senate sessions, and carrying bills and amendments to the desk. Pages also attend classes in the early morning at the United States Senate Page School. The Page School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools." -US Senate

HI S TORY OF   THE   S ENAT E   PAGE   SCHOOL
Rich in the tradition of the U. S. Senate is the role pla yed by the youths who have served as 
Senate  Pages.  The first Senate Page was appointed upon the recommendations of Senators Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster.  The forms of education for the students have varied from incidental
instruction by friends to part-time assistance by public officials and from private school to public
education.  As a result of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the District of Columbia
Public Schools assumed responsibility for the education of the Congressional Pages as of January
1947.  That responsib ility continued until July , 1995. 
     
The Page School has met accreditation by Middle States Association of Colleges and
Schools since 1950. In June 1979, the House Committee on Appropriations reported its pleasure at
the findings of the Gen eral Accounting Office's study of the Page School "...in that the school h as a
well-rounded curriculum, which when combined with the unique opportunity of an internship with
the Congress, provide s these young people with a rewarding ex perience."
In June 1983, the House Page Board decided to conduct an independent school for 11th
grade students only, with total control of the school under its jurisdiction.  The Senate Management
Board acted to retain the District of Columbia Public School System with authorization to change
from a four-year college preparatory curriculum to an 11th grade program.  In September 1983,
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools determined that the Senate Page School would
retain the Capitol Page School accreditation with an evaluation review to be conducted during the
1985-1986 school year.  The review took place in October, 1985.  In May 1986, the Middle States
Association notified SPS of its continued full accreditation.
In July, 1995 the Senate Page School became an independent school and was relocated from
the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress to the lower level of the Daniel Webster Senate
Page Residence.  Accreditation continues through the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Schools.

 

More about the Page School:

History of the Senate Page School

Oral History Interview with J. Franklin Little, Senate Page, 1910-1912

First Female Pages Appointed

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Page Application

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Policy Notice

NON-DISCRIMINATION: The Senate Page Program does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, disability, gender, national or ethnic origin in administration of its admission or other policies.