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Causes: Education, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: Believing that education is lifelong and continues beyond the classroom, st. Paul's school invites a diverse group of approximately 535 students and 330 faculty and staff members to create an extended family which respects (see schedule o for continuation) and nurtures individual talent, personal freedom, and responsibility, intellectual curiosity and public service. Students are encouraged to seek the highest standards of scholastic, artistic and physical achievement through an integrated curriculum.
Programs: St. Paul's school's primary program service is the education of students in grades 9 through 12, in a coeducational fully residential school environment. The school strives to be an inclusive, equitable, and richly diverse community, one that is committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities, as well as promoting individual growth through learning about the self and the perspectives and experience of others. The concentrated academic work done in collaboration by the students and faculty at st. Paul's school is the hallmark of our academic program. Through the school's rigorous academic standards, we encourage our motivated students to attain the highest levels of scholarship and intellectual growth and development.
st. Paul's school founded the advanced studies program (asp) in 1958 to provide talented new hampshire public and parochial high school rising seniors with challenging educational opportunities otherwise unavailable to them. Each summer, approximately 260 young men and women live on the st. Paul's school campus for five and a half weeks. Students are immersed in a college-level curriculum and challenged to discover new ways of learning. Asp offers a wide variety of courses from shakespeare to astronomy, which thoroughly explore topics in several disciplines. In their time at asp, students become immersed in their subject of choice, setting them up for a lifelong understanding of the material. (see schedule o for continuation) additionally, all asp students have an opportunity to enhance their writing skills through compulsory interactive writing workshops.