You belong here.
Challenge ∙ Balance ∙ Joy
ABOUT SAS
OUR MISSION To be an inclusive Christian community, in which the Episcopal heritage is central; to provide superior preparation for college; to provide educational opportunities for those students for whom such experiences might not otherwise be available; to bring all members of the community to a richer spiritual, intellectual, social, physical, and aesthetic awareness, so that they might lead lives of honor and loving service to God and to others. We challenge our students to fufill their greatest potential while helping them cultivate lives of balance and joy. We learn, live, and play in community.
Students: 240+ Grades: 6–12 Accreditation: Southern Association of Independent Schools
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Innovative Curriculum, Creative Faculty St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School (SAS) is a private, coeducational, Episcopal, boarding and day, college preparatory school. SAS is located on a beautifully wooded and historic campus high atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. St. Andrew’s-Sewanee offers students an innovative curriculum presented by a creative and engaged faculty who are dedicated to cultivating well-rounded and thoughtful human beings.
A Close Community, A College Town At St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School students are encouraged to challenge themselves in and out of the classroom while participating in a close-knit and caring community. Students enjoy small classes, an award-winning arts program, numerous sports and outdoor adventure opportunities, and access to the facilities and offerings of our neighbor, the University of the South.
Tracing its history to the 1868 founding of the junior department of the University of the South, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee is the inheritor of over 150 years of experience educating young people.
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Inspiring Curiosity
ACADEMICS
Education is more than a desk job
A Sampling of Recent Elective Courses
At St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School your learning is going to take place across our 550-acre campus. Whether it’s science in the wetlands, art at the Res, or English in the giant fish, you will be out and getting your hands dirty.
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Taking responsibility for your education We’re not planning to follow you to college, so we’d better teach you how to fend for yourself. That means more than just discovering how to do your laundry. We will teach you to take increasing responsibility for your own learning, whether that’s advocating for extra help or seeking extra challenge.
Preparing you to succeed At SAS, students gain a level of selfreliance that gives them the confidence to care for others and their environment. We prepare students for the demands of college and life through a rigorous academic program that focuses on critical thinking, problem solving, and communicating—skills you will need to succeed no matter what the future holds.
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Archaeology Latin American Studies Coding Environmental Stewardship Holocaust & Genocide Studies Art History Philosophy & Rhetoric
A head start on college Qualified SAS juniors and seniors may take college courses for free at the University of the South. Each year, approximately 32% of the senior class graduates with college credit and real experience in a college classroom.
Helping you to help yourself Our Learning Resources staff helps you to identify your learning strengths and weaknesses and to gain organizational, time management, study, and selfadvocacy skills.
A small sampling of where our grads go • • • • • • • • • • •
Brandeis University University of Rochester The University of the South Smith College Washington and Lee University Centre College Gonzaga University Hendrix College University College Dublin Belmont University Syracuse University
Class Size:
8–20 (Ave. 15) Student/Faculty Ratio: 7:1 Faculty with an Advanced Degree: 55%
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Challenge • Balance • Joy
STUDENT LIFE
Population: 302 Our students come from Tennessee towns and Shanghai highrises, German cities and Alabama farms. Our faculty, more than half of whom live on campus, have been educated around the world. It gives our campus a small town friendliness with a worldwise sophistication. We live together to learn from one another, and our diverse experiences always keep things interesting.
We enjoy our space On fall days, students gather in the Adirondack chairs in the Quad to strum guitars or share stories. The picnic tables fill with students bringing their lunch outside to enjoy the breeze under the trees. When the Sewanee fog rolls in, the social scene moves to Owen Student Union where students sip hot cocoa in front of a warm fire. Spring finds students hiking the trails, swimming in the Res, and gathered around bonfires at the firepit.
We enjoy each other Faculty and their families eat in Robinson Dining Hall. Students, faculty, and staff members weave in and out of one another’s lives creating bonds that last a lifetime. It’s a closeness you can feel from the moment you arrive. St. Andrew’sSewanee is a community bound together by respect for one another and delight in knowledge.
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Cultivating love and inclusion Greater opportunity, voice, and empowerment are the ongoing work of all members of the SAS community. SAS welcomes, supports, and celebrates the unique gits and experiences of each member of our community.
Faculty Living on Campus: 41% Boarding Students: 30% International: 10% Countries: 11 States: 13 Residential Houses: 12-15 Residents
What are you doing this weekend? • • • • • • • • • •
Super Bowl Party Bonfire and S’mores Movie Sing-along Campus Dance Scavenger Hunt Nashville Museum Trip Climbing Club Competition Major League Soccer Game Caving Dodgeball Tournament
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Creativity is the Future
ARTS
Aesthetic Awareness It’s right there in our mission statement: the arts are not extras. Creativity is at the core of what we believe it is to be human.
Applause awaits you Two theatre productions, two concerts, and six Creative Expression Assemblies each year guarantee you a grateful and enthusiastic audience. McCrory Hall for the Performing Arts welcomes student performers and professional musicians. Students may also participate in private and group lessons in voice, instrument, and dance, in the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, and in Sewanee’s dance program.
Energizing Facilities A hush comes over the recording studio, as a campus band begins their session. Natural light fills the visual art studios. Sixteen wheels, hand-building facilities, and the firing capabilities of several kilns mold our clay program. The 2-D and digital studios host work in drawing, painting, printmaking, film, and photography. The Art Gallery provides exhibition space for the dynamic Visiting Artist Program, as well as student exhibitions. Art spills out across campus with numerous sculptures executed as joint projects between our students and visiting artists.
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• Alfred University • Carnegie Mellon University • Johnson & Wales University • Oregon College of Art & Craft • School of the Art Institute of Chicago • Nossi College of Art • Pratt Institute • School of Visual Arts
Your Audience Awaits
Where do our arts graduates go?
Pottery Wheels: 16 Campus Studios: 3 Outdoor Art Installations: 7
Arts Offered • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Functional Pottery Music Production Songwriting Vocal Ensemble Drawing & Painting Filmmaking Photography Theatre Mixed Media Sculpture Technical Drawing & Design Theater Design & Tech Landscape Painting
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Time Well Spent
OUTDOORS
Check out our backyard High atop the Cumberland Plateau, our wooded campus provides numerous places to hike, mountain bike, rock climb, kayak, and rappel. Caves in the area offer never-ending opportunities for exploration. A bouldering cave and MoonBoards on campus provide aspiring and avid rock climbers with the chance to practice climbing skills indoors before tackling the bluffs of the Sewanee area.
Getting you wilderness ready Middle School students take Adventure Education, an introduction to outdoor skills. Upper School students may take Outdoor Adventure, Climbing, or Adventure Cycling. Weekend activities, Grade Level Programs, and Winterim include canoeing, white water rafting, hikes, camping trips, climbing, and caving expeditions. The challenging campus mountain bike trails attract riders from across the Southeast.
Sometimes we even relax Even if you choose not to make wilderness adventure your thing, at SAS nature will be a part of your everyday experience. Each day the average student walks a mile between classes. When the weather’s good, we head outside to eat lunch at the picnic tables or sit with friends in the Quad talking and listening to music.
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We eat beets There’s something about growing your own food that just makes it taste better. The SAS Farm provides an opportunity for students to learn basic principles of sustainable and bio-dynamic land practices.
Campus Acres: 550 Miles of Campus Trails: 10+ Troop 14 Eagle Scouts: 38
Honors Cumberland Scholars pursue placebased/outdoor academic study, experiential learning, technical skill demonstrations, service requirements, leadership opportunities, and a capstone research presentation to graduate with distinction.
Courses Include: • Archaeology of the Southeastern U.S. • Environmental Literature • Environmental History • Environmental Science • Environmental Stewardship • Field Geology • Landscape Painting • Farming • Outdoor Adventure • Place-Based American Studies • Photography: Community Connections
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Challenge • Balance • Joy
ATHLETICS
Everyone’s welcome. St. Andrew’s-Sewanee offers all students the opportunity to reach their athletic potential and enjoy sports through team membership, competition, and participation. Competing as the SAS Mountain Lions, students build character, develop self-esteem, and learn the value of commitment, teamwork, and sportsmanship. The program encourages all students with desire and discipline to experience the camaraderie of being a team member.
We like to win, we love to play. At SAS, athletics is an integral part of the school curriculum. At the Middle School level, emphasis is on skills development and meaningful participation. At the varsity level, performance and team success become more primary objectives. Even so, in any athletic endeavor at SAS, the final measure of success lies not in winning or losing, but in how our athletes prepare for and play the game. The health and well being of St. Andrew’s-Sewanee studentathletes always comes first.
Better bring a few pairs of shoes Many of our athletes wear multiple hats—and helmets, participating in as many as four sports a year. SAS coaches respect and encourage the multi-sport athlete. They are eager to work with both our State-bound elite athletes and the student who is interested in experiencing a new sport for the first time.
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You can letter in Mountain Biking SAS is proud to be a founding member of the Tennessee High School Cycling League and frequent host for the annual state mountain biking championships.
Teams: 26 Varsity Sports: 10 State-Bound Athletes in 2021: 13
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Basketball Cross Country Golf Mountain Biking Soccer Swimming Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling
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Schedule a Visit
Come see why you belong here
T
he best possible way to find out what life is like at SAS is to visit our campus.
Meet our admission staff, speak with students and faculty, and tour our academic, athletic, and residential facilities. Tours are conducted by student guides who will give you their perspective on life at SAS. During the interview, the admission staff will spend time carefully working with you to learn more about your interests and activities and how SAS can best serve you.
We came into SAS as one thing and are leaving it as another – not as different people, but as more evolved versions of ourselves. Together, we’ve learned to be better students, better athletes, better artists, better friends, better people because of the foundation of love that resides in this place and which has supported us in all of our endeavors. –Carolyn Bruce ‘18
Contact Us Today to Schedule Your Visit 931.598.5651 admission@sasweb.org
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Nashville, TN
Knoxville, TN I-24
Sewanee, TN Chattanooga, TN
Huntsville, AL
I-75
I-59
Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL St. Andrew’s-Sewanee is centrally located between Nashville, Chattanooga, and Huntsville.
290 Quintard Road Sewanee, TN 37375 931.598.5651 admission@sasweb.org www.sasweb.org