Strategic Plan

Saint Thomas ’Episcopal School forms honorable men and women through a classical education grounded in a Christ-centered worldview.

Interpretation of the Mission

• We will build individuals who are academically prepared to be leaders in their communities and vocations/professions, and who will exercise that leadership in a manner that is imbued with Christian virtues
  • Our understanding of Christianity is traditional and is based upon scripture and upon the creeds of the Church
  • We do not require all student to be Christians, but we do expect all students to participate in our regular Christian worship and in required religious instruction

Classical Education

• Aspires toward absolute standards of the good, the true, and the beautiful
  • Education in English, Classical and Modern Languages, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Arts, and Science builds understanding of these standards
• Our graduates will be logical and persuasive advocates for the pursuit of these standards in writing and speech

Christ-Centered Worldview is expressed through

• Regular worship
• Faculty and staff modeling of Christian ethics and behavior
• We celebrate God’s grace as the foundation for all subjects. We have explicit curricula in
  • Bible history
  • The elements of the Christian faith
  • Christian outlook on world events

Academic Excellence

• The pursuit of academic rigor and discipline trains the mind, spirit, and character
• Saint Thomas’ prepares students to succeed in college
• School promotes high quality non-academic subjects and extracurriculars. These teach students about the discipline required to achieve excellence as well as the value of teamwork

• Honor
• Christian Faith
• Love
• Discipline
• Excellence
• Respect           

Saint Thomas’ is a parish school within The Episcopal Church and the broader Anglican Communion. Through our worship, teaching, learning, and fellowship, we seek to model a Christian vision of human flourishing. Our school welcomes students of all faith traditions, or no faith tradition, as we pursue objective truth through intellectual openness and free inquiry. Our faculty, staff, and clergy all believe that scripture, as revealed in the Old and New Testaments, is the supreme authority of the universal church, and we hold that the Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds form a sufficient statement of the Christian faith.

All of our students and faculty attend and participate in daily chapel during the school day. In practice, the school is informed by a faith that encourages all the streams within orthodox Christianity, including Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, non-denominational, and more. The influence of the early Church endures at Saint Thomas’, and our worship is traditional, relying on the classical Book of Common Prayer.

As Christians, we hold firm to the scriptural traditions that have served as the bedrock of the faith for millenia. We believe that God created men and women in his image, and this informs the school’s mission of forming “honorable men and women through a classical education grounded in a Christ-centered worldview.” Because all human beings are a reflection of God’s image and because Jesus’ crucifixion was atonement for the sins of the whole world, we welcome people from all backgrounds and nationalities.