The curriculum focused on the Bible and Anglican catechesis, with Wager escorting the students to Bruton Parish services on feast days and giving students copies of the Book of Common Prayer after completing an exam on the catechism. Wager was kind to her students, though her curriculum also enforced pro-slavery ideology. Students were also taught manners, reading, and possibly writing. Girls were also taught to knit and sew. Writing was a skill that could be taught from one enslaved person to another that could improve the chance of successful escape by forging passes permitting them to travel. Black Virginian oral tradition referred to some Bray School students as the "first black teachers in Virginia" and says they assisted in the escape of their fellow enslaved through sharing their knowledge of writing. Teaching enslaved persons to read would be outlawed by Virginia in the 19th century. The Bray School moved from the original building in 1765 and closed in 1774. Over the school's 14 years of operation, Wager educated up to several hundred students.
