Private School in Hampton Roads, VA

St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Newport News:
Located in Newport News, an independent city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of eastern Virginia, St. Andrew's Episcopal School has been providing a strong academic education for PreK-5 children on the Virginia Peninsula in a nurturing Christian environment for sixty years. We welcome children of all faiths who seek to grow in mind, body, and spirit and we strive to be an inclusive school celebrating the diversity that each student brings to our community.

The experience of learning extends past the classroom and textbooks as we reach out to learn from one another and from the community in which we live. We hold tight to the traditions that have served us well while incorporating current curriculum and technology that keeps us in the forefront of elementary schools in our area. From our Pre-kindergarten class through fifth grade, students are challenged by a rigorous academic program as well as music, art, French, computer, physical education, and library.

The Mission at St. Andrew's Episcopal School is to educate the whole child, intellectually, spiritually and socially by providing challenging academics in a nurturing Christian environment where faculty, staff and parents are in partnership.

Philosophy:
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School exists to give a sound academic education within a Christian environment for children in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades one through five. Children of all faiths are accepted, respected and taught to appreciate themselves and each other.

St. Andrew’s provides an atmosphere conducive to the social, mental, physical and spiritual development of the students. In such an atmosphere, cooperation, curiosity, creativity and responsibility can flourish. The curriculum is planned to prepare children to become responsible, well-informed citizens in our complex and rapidly changing society. In addition, it fosters an appreciation and a better understanding of our cultural heritage and a commitment to American democracy.

A close relationship among the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, parents, church and community undergirds the curriculum. Each of these factors is recognized as an essential part of every child’s individual development.

St. Andrew’s seeks to instill in its students the recognition that education is a lifelong and rewarding process.

We are accredited by the The Virginia Association of Independent Schools.

Programs:
- Programs from pre-kindergarten through 5th grade
- Rigorous academic program that includes the core academic subjects math, English and science as well as music, art, French, computer, physical education and library
- Before and After School Programs
- Extracurricular activities