St. Andrew's Strategic Plan | 2025 and Beyond

WE ARE COMMITTED TO SERVING MORE STUDENTS IN MORE WAYS AND IN MORE PLACES.

STRATEGIC PLAN | 2025 AND BEYOND

St. Andrew’s empowers students to discover their unique value and embrace their full potential.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

→ Fostering a Community through Kindness and Empathy

We prioritize compassionate interactions and teaching methods to foster a supportive, inclusive, and joyful environment for all.

→ Teaching Lifelong Learning Skills

We teach students how to challenge themselves academically and persevere through adversity, embracing curiosity and learning from setbacks with resilience.

→ Prioritizing Holistic Development

We believe in personalized teaching approaches that nurture each student’s well-being and inspire them to be good people.

→ Engaging in Service

Our commitment to service encourages community engagement in projects that address local, national, and global needs.

→ Embracing Growth and Change

Adaptability and creativity are ingrained in our culture, pushing us to explore new horizons and encourage our community members to lead positive transformation.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

→ Expanding our impact and advancing our story

→ A continued commitment to broadening student experiences

→ Strengthening a community of kindness and purpose

→ Balancing growth with preservation: Investing in our place and people

St. Andrew’s School will embark on an ambitious plan to enhance its educational impact through expansion, innovative institutional partnerships, new learning programs, and alternative pathways while maintaining a clear institutional identity rooted in inclusivity and excellence.

INITIATIVES:

→ Identity affirmation:

We will launch a regional marketing campaign clarifying our role as a destination for all types of learners.

→ Institutional growth:

We will explore opportunities for expansion through new programs, partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions.

→ Tending to our donor community:

We will strengthen our donor relationships by building major gifts and planned giving programs.

→ Educational leadership expansion:

We will widen our role as a leader in inclusive education through professional development, conferences, and consultative programs that reach far beyond our campus.

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COMMITMENT TO BROADENING STUDENT EXPERIENCES

St. Andrew’s School will broaden student experiences by strategically expanding our innovative partnerships, programs, and curricula. While embracing new opportunities, we will remain committed to maintaining and communicating a clear institutional identity rooted in our values.

INITIATIVES:

→ Pathways to potential: We will expand curricular options with innovative courses and career pathways and equip students with the skills needed to succeed.

→ Global journeys initiative—cultivating global understanding through travel and place-based educational experiences: We will broaden experiential learning through travel programs that build global understanding and IB-aligned competencies.

→ Cultivating creative futures—expanding arts education: We will enhance arts education with reimagined course offerings, upgraded facilities, new partnerships, and targeted student recruitment.

STRENGTHENING

A COMMUNITY OF KINDNESS AND PURPOSE

St. Andrew’s School will continue to be an intentional community that bridges diverse experiences, fosters authentic belonging, and prepares students to navigate an increasingly complex world with empathy and purpose. Our recent strategic visioning survey reaffirmed that our traditions of inclusion, kindness, and collaboration are core reasons why families choose St. Andrew’s. To realize this goal and ensure these values remain central to the student experience, we will design and implement a continuous improvement framework to ensure that commitment endures.

INITIATIVES:

→ Intentional inclusion initiative:

We will upgrade campus spaces to reflect our values of belonging, accessibility, and community connection.

→ Protecting a circle of care:

We will cultivate empathy, kindness, and leadership through a Chaplaincy anchored in the service, reflection, and restorative practices of our Chapin Tradition.

→ Chapin Fellowship:

We will create a cohort-based student leadership framework with inclusive entry points for all learners.

→ A framework for excellence:

We will align programs, policies, and departments to our mission and guiding principles through a continuous improvement framework that encompasses ongoing accreditations.

BALANCING GROWTH WITH PRESERVATION: INVESTING IN OUR PLACE AND PEOPLE

St. Andrew’s School will develop an integrated capital and financial framework that uses facility enhancement to support programmatic excellence, while maintaining our commitment to our people and socioeconomic diversity.

INITIATIVES:

→ Ensuring a sense of place at St. Andrew’s:

We will preserve and improve facilities while investing in new spaces that support our master plan.

→ Tending to our people:

We will invest in faculty and staff with housing, benefits, wellness, and professional growth opportunities.

→ Commitment to socioeconomic diversity and financial accessibility: We will strengthen financial aid while safeguarding long-term institutional stability and our commitment to financial accessibility.

→ Sustainable growth model:

We will pursue growth through financial planning that aligns with and supports both campus development and educational innovation.