Gifft Hill School

The Gifft Hill School is the first and only high school on the island of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is a private school located on Gifft Hill.

The school was founded by Scott Crawford and Sabrina Bobert and opened in 1999 as The Coral Bay School. It was then just a middle school and grades were added on each year until they had their first graduating class in 2004. In the fall semester of 2004, the school changed its name to The St. John School on Gifft Hill and merged with Pine Peace Elementary School, also on Gifft Hill. The school bought property and started building. In the fall semester of 2005, they moved there from the temporary location in the Lumber Yard in Cruz Bay. By 2005, all that was completed was the gym of the school which they put partitions in to make classrooms. In this builing were grades 7-12; the elementary school is down the road a few blocks from the upper campus. The name of the school was officially changed, again, to the Gifft Hill School. In the fall of 2006, Crawford and Bobert stepped down and Ben Biddle took over as headmaster of the school. He started many more electives and an organic school store. The fifth and sixth grades also moved to the upper campus that year bringing the population at the upper campus to 74 students.