St. George's School (RI)

St. George's School Co-Ed Boarding School Information

For more than 100 years, St. George’s has combined a respect for tradition with an embrace of the future, academic rigor with a caring heart, and an appreciation of the individual with the warmth of a small school community. Today, in a world where society is increasingly fragmented and polarized, our school remains a community where honesty and integrity matter, humor and hard work are equally important values, and where the process of education is as important as the grade.

Central to our efforts to build an intellectual community is our dedicated faculty. Intensely devoted to the success of their students, the faculty serves as teachers, coaches, advisors, mentors, and friends. While our breathtaking location overlooking the Atlantic Ocean inspires and informs our daily work, there is great beauty in the small gestures of daily life on the Hilltop as well: a teacher stopping a student to ask about an ill classmate, a coach staying after practice to repeat a drill, a congratulatory hug upon graduation. In every area of school life, the faculty seeks to challenge and inspire students to reach new levels of inquiry and understanding.

Because we are a residential community, teaching continues beyond the classrooms and across the campus. For students, there is the opportunity to live with and learn from classmates from around the nation and the globe. Their diverse backgrounds and perspectives stem from more than just geography. Since more than 27 percent of students receive financial assistance based on need, we can craft a student body that represents a wide array of social experiences.

We are a school community of high expectations, academic and otherwise. At the same time, we are devoted to helping students develop intellectual, artistic, and personal interests that will allow them live what our founder described as “lives of constructive service” to society. We hope that you will visit us at St. George’s. Our faculty and students look forward to showing you our school.

Our Mission

In 1896, the Rev. John Byron Diman, founder of St. George's School, wrote in his “Purposes of the School” that:

"the specific objectives of St. George's are to give its students the opportunity of developing to the fullest extent possible the particular gifts that are theirs and to encourage in them the desire to do so. Their immediate job after leaving school is to handle successfully the demands of college; later it is hoped that their lives will be ones of constructive service to the world and to God.”

As we begin the 21st century, we continue to teach young women and men the value of learning and achievement, service to others, and respect for the individual. We believe that these goals can best be accomplished by exposing students to a wide range of ideas and choices in the context of a rigorous curriculum and a supportive residential community. Therefore, we welcome students and teachers of various talents and backgrounds, and we encourage their dedication to a multiplicity of pursuits—intellectual, spiritual, and physical—that will enable them to succeed in and contribute to a complex, changing world.