Learn • Grow • Achieve
Saint Gregory’s is a co-educational, independent, Catholic school for students of all faiths from age 3 to Grade 8. For more than 50 years, the school has been graduating students of strong moral character who have gone on to competitive secondary and boarding schools, and from there to selective colleges and universities. In our close-knit community, each child is known, valued, and inspired. Our talented teachers actively promote intellectual curiosity and self-discipline in students and are dedicated to preparing every child to thrive and grow in the classroom, on the field, on the stage, and beyond. With a 6:1 ratio, our teachers connect with students on a one-to-one level, tap into children’s interests, and build strong bonds that last a lifetime. Our classes are small by design and allow teachers to understand what motivates children and help them overcome obstacles.
Saint Gregory’s graduates are known for being hardworking, confident, energetic leaders with strong academic achievements but also impressive interpersonal skills and poise. SGS students stand out. They emerge from pre-k through Grade 8 journey focused on the next step of their academic journey ready to embrace whatever the future may bring.
Saint Gregory’s School…graduating students of strong moral character with a thirst for learning for more than 50 years.
Early Childhood
Nurturing. Creative. Welcoming. Learning.
Saint Gregory’s School provides an exemplary early childhood program that ensures individual developmental needs are met. On our beautiful 22-acre campus children engage in daily outside play, including seasonal recreational activities and nature exploration. Our early childhood teachers deliver a structured, comprehensive curriculum, and dedicate afternoons for additional enrichment activities, including science, technology, engineering, math challenges, and outdoor exploration. In addition, our qualified Pre-K through Grade 8 faculty ensures that even our youngest learners participate in Spanish, music, physical education, and art classes on a weekly basis to optimize personal development.
Our students learn what it means to contribute to the SGS family and the larger responsibilities of being part of the community. Within our nurturing and warm environment, our values of respect, empathy, kindness, and decency are modeled each day. When you step on our campus, the warmth and character of our community shines through; it is a place where your child is known and treasured.
As our three-year-old students walk through the hallways at SGS, they are filled with excitement and an enthusiasm for learning in a nurturing and supportive environment. Each day our teachers engage in active and meaningful activities. Children are eager learners who test their senses and explore their community through active indoor and outdoor play and hands-on discovery. Our teachers know and value each student, and when a child feels good about school, positive attitudes are formed that provide a lifetime of intellectual growth and curiosity.
– Children in our Pre-K3 program attend a full day (8:20 – 3:20) or half day (8:20 – 11:30, with an option to stay for lunch through 12:30)
– Students can attend two days (Tuesday and Thursday), three days (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), or five days a week (Monday – Friday) – half day or full day.
– Before Care is available from 7:30 – 8:00 am, free of charge
– After Care is available from 3:20 – 6:00 pm for a fee.
Our teachers continue to foster each child’s social, emotional, and academic development to become confident learners. Through hands-on learning, creativity, and exploration, students learn cooperation, tolerance, and independence. They bake, paint, build, perform, count, sing, garden, conduct simple science experiments, and spend plenty of time outside exploring. Our teachers focus on the development of early literacy, writing, correct letter formation, number sense, and basic problem-solving skills to lay the foundation for future academic success.
– Children in PreK-4 attend school five mornings a week, from 8:20-3:20.
– Full day options are available
– Before Care is available from 7:30 – 8:00 am, free of charge
– After Care is available from 3:20 – 6:00 pm for a fee.
Lower School
Challenging. Supportive. Innovative. Creative. Fun.
These are just some of the words parents use to describe our Kindergarten through Grade 4 experience. At SGS, we teach a rigorous curriculum and embrace each child individually, challenging all of our students to reach their fullest potential: intellectually, artistically, physically, morally, and spiritually. Our students strive to do well, and our teachers know children and curriculum, and they nurture a zest for learning. Whether it is tallying pumpkin seeds from our garden, building bridges, designing Native American villages, mastering multiplication and division math facts and geography skills, tackling public speaking, or completing an independent author study, our students are encouraged to think critically and to become independent thinkers. Our older students assist younger ones, building respect, self-esteem, and collaboration. Recess is an integral part of our daily life, giving our children a chance to play, enjoy the outdoors, be creative, and solve social and emotional problems.
SGS students create memories and carry-out traditions that last a lifetime. Our four-year-olds hatch butterflies, the kindergartners tap trees on our campus for maple syrup, first graders do an in-depth animal research projects that involves a trip to the zoo, and second graders build paper-mache models of the continents to learn geography. Third graders dive into enriched novels, and fourth graders research different Native American tribes and then design and build a model of how the tribe lived historically. Increasingly, students are prepared to tackle more varied and rigorous programs.
The Kindergarten year builds on the learning and experiences from our preschool programs. Writing and revising daily in a journal is just one way a SGS Kindergarten program fosters a love of learning while building fundamental life and academic skills. The curriculum emphasizes Language Arts – reading, comprehension, writing, speaking, listening, and vocabulary development. Mathematical and problem-solving skills, scientific exploration, art, music, physical education and wellness, Spanish, technology, and free indoor and outdoor play fill the days with rich learning opportunities and experiences. The supportive atmosphere, predictable routines, and reasonable behavioral expectations allow students to feel secure to take on more academic and social risks.
Kindergarten is a full, five day program
First graders are eager to advance their reading and writing abilities and build on the skills learned in Kindergarten. The objective is to foster strong decoding skills, develop writing skills to respond to literature, introduce the principles of good spelling and penmanship, and continue to learn how to publicly speak and listen well. Students learn new math concepts, complete challenging word problems, and practice basic math facts. They are emerging scientists, engineers, writers, artists, and musicians, and learn through field trips, games and hands-on activities. First grade is a time of increasing independence, from walking to class without an adult to preparing for weekly spelling assessments. At SGS, we emphasize respect and what it means to be part of a community.
Second graders rush to the classroom excited to see their friends and to start their day. They have moved beyond simple words, building greater comprehension and fluency, and they have a designated vocabulary program. The writing process is taught, and students learn to write stories with a beginning, middle, and end. They are working to master two- and three-digit addition and subtraction, solving multi-step word problems, and gearing up for basic multiplication. By the end of second grade, students will have sharper, critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Organizational skills are taught, and students are expected to be accountable for their learning and behavior.