Grounded in a solid foundation of core skills and proficiencies, the School’s challenging academic program promotes critical and creative thinking. A variety of teaching approaches and techniques stimulate independent thinking and free children to question, challenge, and explore ideas. Students express their imagination in science and mathematics as well as in words, music, art, and technology.
Interdisciplinary teaching allows content from one subject area to reinforce another and open up fresh insights. Art, computer, modern language, drama, music, and physical and outdoor education complement the core subjects of reading, writing, mathematics, and social studies. Chapel, the study of ethics and comparative religion, and community service are important components of school life.
The School is divided into two academic divisions: Lower School (Junior Kindergarten - Grade 4) and Upper School (Grades 5 – 8). As children move through the grades, an increasingly rich extracurricular program includes interscholastic sports, the literary magazine and yearbook, participation in the chorister program of The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, service as a student government representative or acolyte, and active involvement in the School’s Amnesty International chapter.
