Mission
St. Paul's School is a private school with a public purpose — to serve and benefit the community by working directly within it, by developing future adult leaders, and by being a model for others of a high quality education for a diverse student body in an urban setting, stressing both academic excellence and personal growth.
St. Paul's School is a learning community of students, families, faculty, staff, board, church, friends and supporters. It is a community that celebrates and values diversity — of socioeconomic background, ethnicity, race, culture, sexual orientation, learning style, religion, and all families however constituted — and seeks to reflect its city and region. All aspects of the school, including a major financial aid program, honor this commitment to diversity.
St. Paul's School is dedicated to education, to providing the finest standard of education, from kindergarten through eighth grade, and to enabling its graduates to advance successfully to high school and thereafter to university and careers. St. Paul’s School measures its academic excellence in achievement — mastery of subject matter, classroom performance, high school entry, higher education and career paths — and also in the development of independent thinking, intellectual curiosity, self-confidence and positive relations with others.
St. Paul's School values and appreciates its exceptional faculty, who are dedicated to both the academic standards of the school and to its values, and are fully qualified to impart both.
St. Paul's is an urban school, committed to its central city location, to using the city’s resources and discovering new ones, and to serving and representing the city.
St. Paul's School continues the Episcopal tradition of respect for a diversity of faiths and religions. The school and church work together to teach both academics and human values in a compassionate environment, offering a program for children of all faiths.
St. Paul's School requires community service as an integral part of its students’ lives — to give back and to share among economic levels, generations, races, ethnicities, and cultures.
