St. Andrews School

For more than 120 years, our close-knit community of students and scholars has combined to create an individualized approach to learning and development that sets St. Andrew’s apart. Whether your connection is through the Middle School or Upper School, day student or residential, you and your family will find at St. Andrew’s one of the most unique and valued educations anywhere, where students are put on a path to success from their very first days of study.

We offer a tailored approach to learning, and we engage young men and women in the pursuit of knowledge on a campus of superb beauty, with stellar facilities and a rich history dating back to 1893. The St. Andrew’s ethos — to promote lifelong learning in an environment where tolerance, diversity, and respect are paramount, and to focus on the individual talents and needs of each student — is apparent in everything we do.

Our students are drawn from nearby towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and from cities all across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Our faculty consists of accomplished practitioners and expert educators. Our staff, administrators, parents, trustees, alumni, and friends are all uniquely committed to the growth and success of our students. And together we form a global network of connections and accomplishments that creates the St. Andrew’s of today.

Our arts offerings, athletic teams, service learning program, and host of co-curricular offerings complement our challenging yet supportive curriculum. A St. Andrew's education offers every student the opportunity to explore passions and interests as they discover their best self.

Through diversity of experience and uniqueness in viewpoint, St. Andrew’s is a place where the pursuits of human and academic excellence are not mutually exclusive; where positive relationships between students and faculty are fundamental to learning; and where helping students to grow guides our strategy.

St. Andrew’s School is a nurturing, challenging, and safe educational community serving students in grades 6-12 and postgraduate (PG). Our dedicated faculty and staff embrace, encourage, educate, and empower students one mind at a time. Our Episcopal heritage guides our moral and ethical values. Academic success and personal growth are promoted so that students can purposefully engage, succeed, and thrive in school and in life.

After many discussions and careful consideration, St. Andrew's adopted guiding principles as a way of pinpointing the overall vision of the School. Listed below are key points that reflect the core values of our community, and major components in fulfilling a St. Andrew's education. We believe in and practice the concept of “students first” and strive to ensure that all of our decisions — academic, fiscal, and philosophical — emanate from this conviction.

• We are committed to a curriculum that prepares young men and women for life and ensures that all who seek access to higher education will be sufficiently prepared.
• We value a community as diverse as the world in which we live, and therefore accept students based solely on their capacity to learn, grow, and flourish because of our approach to education.
• We pledge to offer sufficient financial aid to fulfill our mission.
• We uphold the conviction that our students learn best in a small, intimate environment that allows for personal attention and ongoing interaction with faculty.
• We seek to create a campus-wide environment that fosters growth in all its dimensions — intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual — and promotes learning in the classroom and beyond.
• We embrace the arts, athletics, and community service as essential elements of a St. Andrew’s education.
• We strive to enhance the spiritual, moral, and ethical development of our students by offering courses, programs, and activities that nourish not just the head, but the heart and soul.
• We recognize the importance of recruiting and retaining the very best faculty and staff, and we work diligently toward that end.

Our students come to St. Andrew’s from both public and independent schools, searching for new academic adventures, more personal instruction, and greater camaraderie with classmates. St. Andrew’s commitment to tailored teaching is matched only by our care in crafting an essential curriculum. As a result, our graduates leave us with both a bedrock education that serves as a fine foundation for college and a set of personal strategies that equip them for a lifetime of continued learning, adaptation, and intellectual evolution. Just as important, our students take from St. Andrew’s a guiding sense of self — an awareness of their own strengths and passions that they use to chart a confident path forward.

All St. Andrew’s students benefit profoundly from day and night access to faculty members, from peers who offer diverse perspectives and uncommon kindness, and from extraordinary extracurricular opportunities to go, see, serve, and experience together. Our boarding atmosphere bonds our students into a tightly knit learning community, which, in turn, empowers everyone to rise to greater expectations and meet higher academic standards.