You're already at home the second you arrive at St. Paul's School. In our positive and inclusive community, students learn, grow, and have fun, forming friendships and fond memories that last.
We are a community of learners, where all of us, students and teachers, live together on these grounds – where we learn together about almost everything and where each of us is an important citizen with important contributions to make to this village we call St. Paul’s.
Learning takes place in all walks of life at St. Paul’s: at breakfast with friends, at dinner with your adviser's family, in conversation with your math teacher during evening advising hours, at house meetings, or on the athletic fields. We are all learning all the time, surrounded by a community that cares.
Your house (dorm) is likely where you will feel most at home. We live in 19 residential houses on the grounds – nine girls and nine boys, and one all-gender house – that range in style from the 19th-century Gothic architecture of Coit to the contemporary style of Con/20 and Kehaya. About 30 students live in each of our houses along with an average of three faculty members and their families. The all-gender house is smaller, with fewer students and faculty in residence. Two or more faculty advisers are also associated with the house.
Each house has a large common room, which adjoins the resident faculty apartments. The common rooms are comfortably furnished, provide kitchen facilities, and often have fireplaces. Students and the faculty resident together organize life in their own houses, planning everything from daily chores to fun activities. When you check into your house at night, a faculty adviser or the head of house welcomes you and asks about your evening.
Each house has its own character, and students from all forms live together. Rooms are single, doubles, or triples. In your first year you will most likely be placed in a double room with a roommate. Your room is fully wired for high-speed connections to the Internet and the School's intranet and email system.
Your adviser, a faculty member who lives in your house (your dorm), will advise only a handful of students. Advisers are never far away when you need them, maintaining an awareness of what is happening in their advisees' lives. They are the first point of contact between parents and the School, and they are often the first adult to whom you will turn for help with any part of your life at school. This type of community is at the heart of the School’s fully residential experience.
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