(CBC) board of trustees under the guidance of CBC’s first president, Robert C. McQuilkin, founded Ben Lippen School in 1940. The evangelical boarding school for boys was located at CBC’s Ben Lippen Conference Center on a mountain near Asheville, NC.

The school became co-educational in 1952 and flourished as a school for missionary children. After a fire destroyed the main building in 1980, Ben Lippen moved its high school program to its current location in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1988 to be on the campus of CBC.  An elementary program was started in 1990 and Ben Lippen School currently boasts three campuses. The third lower school campus, located in Northeast Columbia, opened in the Fall of 2021. 

Today, Ben Lippen School has more than 1200 students in grades Pre-K3 through 12th, with approximately 40 of them being international students who live on campus and attend our high school. Ben Lippen School is accredited by the Council on Educational Standards and Accountability (CESA), Cognia (formerly AdvancED), and the Small Boarding School Association (SBSA).