Mission

St. Luke's School is one of the primary ways in which The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields serves the community and the City.

At St. Luke's, we seek to give our students a sound cognitive foundation for their lives and prepare them for admission to and continuing success in future schools. As an Episcopal Church School, we also seek to do something more.

St. Luke's is a small school, deliberately. Its size enables us to focus on each child as an individual. Its size also allows everyone to know everyone else. It fosters a feeling of family -- a supportive climate of trust and understanding, communicating values and building community. In this environment, children form positive relationships with classmates and teachers, with older children and with younger ones.

St. Luke's is coeducational and heterogeneous. Its students and faculty come from a variety of backgrounds -- racial, ethnic, economic, religious. We value and actively encourage this mutually enriching diversity. It is part of the process of helping each child discover his or her own uniqueness and infinite worth as a human being -- and at the same time, that of others.

St. Luke's is a traditional school, in that it has a strong academic curriculum, high standards, clear and consistent boundaries and expectations. Within that structure, we emphasize freedom. We use varied educational approaches and techniques to help stimulate independent thinking -- to free the children to question, challenge, explore, and pursue truth wherever it leads. We encourage them to express their imagination and creative powers, in science and mathematics as well as in words, music, and art. Interdisciplinary teaching allows content from one subject area to reinforce another and open up fresh insights.

Above all, St. Luke's seeks to awaken in children a lifelong love of learning, a sense of joy and wonder at God's universe, and a deep feeling of connection to the natural world. We hope that whatever they go on to do and be, we will have prepared them to be good stewards of the world's resources -- responsible, caring members of one global human community.

What St. Luke's Is to Me

St. Luke's is like the wasabi in my sushi. It may be small, but it packs a punch.

St. Luke's is like the rosin on my bow; it turns a scratchy, irritating sound into one that's smooth and mellow.

St. Luke's is like the Tylenol for my headaches. I may not notice its effects right away, but it gives me what I need.

St. Luke's is like the wind chimes on Christopher Street on my morning walk. It gives me something to look foward to each day, and something refreshing to remember.

St. Luke's is like a giant maze in a puzzle book. It's easy to see where the exit is, but still, it's hard to leave.

St. Luke's is like a great painting. It makes you look at things in ways you've never seen before.

St. Luke's is like a favorite pillow under your head. Whichever way you turn, it's always there to suport you.

St. Luke's is like a stretchy sweater that's comfortable when you're small, but when you grow into it, it's a perfect fit.

St. Luke's is like a caramel macchiato at Starbuck's. It wakes you up with something stimulating, but it surprises you with something sweet.

St. Luke's is like the New York City subway system. There are so many different directions that it can take you wherever you want to go.

--Julian '08