The Steward School

From day one, The Steward School has made our family feel welcome. A strong sense of community flourishes throughout the campus. Our family has found a school that empowers our children to think outside the box, to choose and tackle challenges with confidence, and to set goals with affirmation. Our children love their school, and they have a love for learning!

At The Steward School, we recognize that choosing a school is not only about finding the right fit for your children today; it’s also about preparation for their future. The right school will prepare students with the skills and experiences they will need to succeed in a world that’s rapidly changing. At Steward, we understand that there isn’t only one path to success; our students’ possibilities are limitless.

In order to unleash those possibilities, we engage our students with lessons that pair robust academics with innovation opportunities and real-world understanding. Across the country, statistics show that student engagement plummets from 80% in elementary school to just 40% by the beginning of high school (Gallup Student Poll). However, The Steward School is defying that trend. Engagement is a core part of our mission, which is to prepare our students for college and for life in a community defined by robust academics, inspiration, engagement, and care.

Our intentionally sized school is large enough to provide the resources for students to explore their interests and curiosities across academics, athletics, and the arts concurrently, and small enough to give them the personalized attention they need to pursue those interests. This environment helps shape today’s students into the type of adults our world will need in the future.

Our Mission is to prepare our students for college and for life in a community defined by robust academics, inspiration, engagement, and care. We foster personal accomplishment through effort. We expect our students to care for and respect one another, to accept personal responsibility, and to behave honorably. Steward’s commitment to small class size ensures focus on each student’s talents and passions. Students are required to articulate, share, and defend their opinions while considering the views of their fellow students. We believe a diversity of talents, abilities, and cultures among our student body offers a rich and well-rounded educational experience. We value our sense of community, made possible by our commitment to a relatively small population.

The Steward School's educational philosophy expresses who we were founded to be, who we are, and who we strive to become. While we value and celebrate traditional academic achievement and intellectual accomplishment, we believe that each child is an individual and should be treated as such, and that this is a greater guiding principle than any linear scale.

We celebrate the fact that we have a student population of differing talents and abilities. The essence of the school's culture is rooted in the ethic of care–care for oneself, for others, for the school community, and for a cause greater than oneself. Competition exists and is important at Steward, as it is in college and life. Discovering the satisfaction that comes from becoming deeply and fully engaged and knowing that you are spending life in a meaningful way is an important life skill, regardless of whether one wins or loses.

At Steward, efforts are made to gauge the appropriate level of expectation and support for each student’s individuality. Every child is unique. The importance of the individual — and treating each individual with the dignity to which he or she is entitled — is a theme which runs very deep in the Steward mission. Steward has a vigorous commitment to preparing our students for new ways of thinking and innovations in the way we approach issues, the ways we value each other, and the ways that we relate.

The use and integration of technology into learning is essential to student growth and development. Understanding and respecting differences is necessary to becoming fully educated. Genuine understanding of other cultures, their histories, and how members of different cultures think and view the world is essential to a global society.

At Steward, balance is a core value, if not the most important element of all. To the extent that we discover the individual, recognize and honor all facets of that individual, and help him or her form a self-respecting, meaningful, and rewarding relationship with the world, we will have succeeded. This is The Steward Way.

The Steward School has celebrated, nurtured, and supported each of our three children. Each brings his or her own individual academic, athletic, and social interests, strengths, and challenges to campus. The faculty, staff, and administration have met us and them where they are and helped us all grow and shine. The Steward School is committed to helping students do more than acquire basic facts and skills. Steward provides a child-centered environment, which is properly focused on every child as a learner. Our goal is to give students the means by which they can think, understand, and apply their knowledge in intellectual and practical problem solving.