Holland Hall

As Tulsa’s only PreK through Grade 12 independent Episcopal school, Holland Hall provides bedrock academic foundations, uncommon extracurricular equilibrium, and an extraordinary apprenticeship in self-reliance—all in an unusually kind, supportive learning community.

At Holland Hall, students don’t have to choose between academics, athletics or the arts. We provide a supportive atmosphere that encourages every student to pursue and excel in all three. Our focus on the whole individual is one of the reasons Holland Hall students thrive in academics, arts and athletics. Holland Hall’s small class sizes and intimate, wooded campus provide an ideal environment to form relationships that last a lifetime. The importance of community is a core value at Holland Hall, with all of what we do centering on this strong sense of connectedness.

The challenging academic opportunities at Holland Hall are unmatched in Tulsa. From the first day of Preschool through graduation, our students are nurtured and challenged in their classes. The faculty at Holland Hall have created an innovative, scaffolded program in each discipline in order to move students along the college-preparatory path that ends with 100% of the senior class matriculating to competitive colleges and universities. The most recent graduating class was offered more than $7 million in scholarships. Students who graduate from Holland Hall are prepared for success in any university setting and for life beyond college.

Athletics and the arts are very important at Holland Hall. Because every student participates in both artistic and athletic endeavors, the entire community respects and encourages excellence beyond the classroom. At Holland Hall, exceptional faculty and innovative programming provide an environment in which each student can discover his/her gifts and passions in both arts and athletics. Developing every facet of each student is our mission.

Although Holland Hall has called different locations home since 1922, its current campus at 81st and Yale is a gem in south Tulsa. In addition to the Primary, Middle, and Upper School facilities, the 165-acre campus includes creeks and ponds, an outdoor classroom, a regionally-recognized 5K wooded trail, numerous athletic fields, and developmentally-appropriate playgrounds. The Walter Arts Center and the All Saints Chapel round out the beautiful and engaging campus.

Holland Hall provides a challenging, comprehensive educational experience grounded in a rigorous liberal arts, college preparatory curriculum that promotes critical thinking and life-long learning. A PreK-12 Episcopal school, we seek to foster in each student a strong moral foundation and a deep sense of social responsibility.

For more than 90 years, our independent, PreK through 12th Grade college preparatory school has been serving the families of Tulsa and beyond with a deep respect for educational excellence in a holistic environment. Every day, our faculty strives to guide our students toward developing their individual gifts and talents while learning what it means to truly “be” in community together.

As a mission-driven institution, we seek to expand our students’ appreciation for academic, artistic, and athletic excellence. Doing so means finding and supporting a diverse faculty from around the country who are not only passionate about their respective disciplines, they also enjoy lighting the slow fuse of the possible within their students. Remarkably small class sizes, where students and teachers grow to know one another well, form the foundation for this work. Committed to creative, active teaching and learning, the Holland Hall classroom experience is rich with exploration and discovery — an experience that has prepared our extensive network of more than 3,000 alumni for some of the most selective collegiate programs in the country.

Our firm commitment to the arts is loudly stated upon entering the Walters Arts Center. A depth of offerings in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts ensure students ably access that part of themselves that only the arts can touch. Our annual ARTworks visiting artist-in-residency program is one of the school’s most inspiring traditions.

Solidly focused on good sportsmanship and healthy competition, our athletic teams compete at a remarkably high level. Almost 65 percent of our coaching staff is comprised from the faculty, allowing for the ethos and expectations from the academic day to infuse into practices and games. Strong character, perseverance, attitude, and resilience form the basis of what we hope to engender in our athletes. Focusing on these aspects of excellence, we believe, creates an outstanding athletic experience.

As an Episcopal school, our inclusive, ecumenical approach highly respects students and families from all religious traditions. Attended once a week, chapel is an important time for being in community together. Led by clergy, chapel talks reinforce our commitment to forming a strong moral foundation in each child with a deep sense of social responsibility. Service learning opportunities abound for students in every grade level.

As the agrarian writer, Wendell Berry, so aptly stated, “A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members — among them the need to need one another.”