St. Paul's School (Brooklandville, Maryland)

Infobox Private School
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name = St. Paul's School

Private, Coeducational grades K-4; all-boys grades 5-12|Day
religion = Episcopal
head_name = Headmaster
head = Thomas J. Reid
city = Baltimore
state = MD
country = USA
campus = Suburban, 95 acres
enrollment = 866 total
faculty = 105
class = 16 students
ratio = 9:1
year = 2005
SAT = 1310/1600, 1920/2400
average financial aid grant = $9,535| endowment = $25 million (June 2006)
annual giving = $1,120,000 (2005-2006)| athletics = 28 sports
colors = Blue and Gold
mascot = Crusader
conference = MIAA
homepage = [http://www.stpaulsschool.org/ www.stpaulsschool.org]

St. Paul's School is an independent K-12 college-preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland, on a 149-acre rural campus in the Green Spring Valley, about ten miles north of the city of Baltimore. St. Paul's was founded in 1849 at Old St. Paul's Parish in Baltimore City by Reverend William Edward Wyatt.

Today, St. Paul's is co-ed through the fourth grade, but all-male from fifth through twelfth grade. However, its all-girls sister school St. Paul's School for Girls is located on an adjacent campus. The Upper Schools share some foreign language and certain elective classes.

Academics

St. Paul's offers a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum for students in the Upper School (grades 9-12). Over 99% of each graduating class matriculates to a four-year college.

The St. Paul's academic experience is known for its excellent faculty, small class sizes, collegial student-teacher relationships and strong focus on the liberal arts. The school recently established an IB Diploma Program to further enrich a curriculum of Advanced Placement and Honors courses.

The Arts also make up an important element of St.Paul's identity. Courses offered include theater, singers, and visual arts.

Athletics

St. Paul's places a strong emphasis on athletics. The school is known for its varsity lacrosse teams, which have had a rich history of competition in the highly-competitive MIAA league against rivals like the Gilman School, Boys' Latin and others. Recently however, the school's athletics department underwent a serious change. The athletics requirement is now incorporating a phycial education class into the day during the sophomore year as well as creating a credits system where each student is required to get a certain number of points in order to meet their requirement. Each activity is assigned a different credit value. Team sports are 2 credits while drama productions are 1. A full time manager would earn 2 points while a game manager would earn 1.

Freshman and Sophomores: 4 CreditsJuniors: 2 CreditsSeniors: 1 Credits

In the past few years, the St. Paul's hockey team has gone to the championships four times, and the golf team has won the 'A' Conference championship five of the past seven years. The St. Paul's cross-country team won the 'B' Conference Championships in 2006 after an undefeated season. The Varsity volleyball team competed in the 'B' Conference Playoffs in only its second year of competition, losing to Boys' Latin three games to two. The varsity volleyball team got revenge the next year, defeating Boys' Latin in the Semi-finals before losing to Archbishop Spalding High School in the finals.

St. Paul's has fielded a varsity squash team for the past two years. This past season squash became an MIAA-sponsored sport. St. Paul's competed in the first ever playoffs and lost 5-2 to Gilman School in the first ever squash championships. The Varsity squash team also competed in the National High School Championships at Yale with a 3-1 record in the C division.

There is also a relatively new crew program, which excels in its lightweight 4 and lightweight 8.

Further reading

* Hein, David. "The Founding of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore." "Maryland Historical Magazine" 81 (1986): 149-59.

* Otterbein, Angelo F. "We Have Kept the Faith : The First 150 Years of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, 1849-1999". Brooklandville, Md.: St. Paul's School, 1999.

External links

* [http://www.stpaulsschool.org/ St. Paul's School Web Site]
* [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=39.429812,-76.674592&spn=0.006944,0.014591&t=h&om=1 Google Maps View]