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	North Campus Administration/Upper School/Middle School 370 Old Agency Road Ridgeland, MS 39157 Central Administration: 601-853-6000 • Fax: 601-853-6001 Upper School Fax: 601-853-6002 • Middle School Fax: 601-853-6003 South Campus Lower School 4120 Old Canton Road Jackson, MS 39216 601-987-9300 • Fax: 601-987-9324 www.gosaints.org sa@gosaints.org   Directions to St. Andrew's St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Testing Code: 251-424

	St. Andrew's Fundamentals
	Founded in 1947, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school serving students in pre-K through grade 12 on two campuses.  St. Andrew’s is known for academic excellence, providing the academic emphasis and cultivating the critical thinking skills needed to excel.  Valuing diversity, St. Andrew’s welcomes students of any race, color, religion, nationality, or ethnic origin.  Typically, 100 percent of St. Andrew’s graduates attend four-year colleges and universities. St. Andrew's Mission, Values, and Vision Statements The Episcopal Tradition Administration and Staff Accreditations and Memberships History Policies and Procedures

	About St. Andrew's
	Enrollment:  1185 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12; 355 students in the Upper School; 94 students in the Class of 2013. National Merit Recognition:   St. Andrew’s consistently leads the state in the percentage of students recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.   The Class of 2013 (94 students) included 11 National Merit Semifinalists, 4 National Achievement Semifinalists, 1 Hispanic Scholar, and 2 additional students received Letters of Commendation. Student Life:  St. Andrew’s is a close-knit community of students, parents, and teachers of many faiths, cultures, races, and economic backgrounds.  On average, 65 percent of St. Andrew’s students participate in at least one of the school’s 16 sports programs.   Other extracurricular activities include student government, student publications, band, choir, theatre, speech and debate, mock trial, and other programs of special interest.  Through St. Andrew’s Peer Leadership program, 16 seniors are selected through a highly competitive process to serve as mentors to freshmen throughout the school year. Honor Code:  The St. Andrew’s community is grounded in trust and operates under a strict honor code that is one of the school’s most revered traditions.  The St. Andrew’s Honor Code ensures that students accept responsibility for their conduct and actions, and grants freedom based on trust.  The Honor Council, composed of elected student representatives from each class, chaired by a Senior Honor Prefect, and monitored by a faculty advisor, investigates and adjudicates any violations of the Honor Code. Service Learning:  In its commitment to molding students of integrity and character, St. Andrew’s requires students to contribute a minimum of 100 hours of volunteer service over the course of their high school careers.   Most students exceed the minimum number of hours of service. Financial Aid:Based upon the belief that a diverse student body adds important breadth to the educational experience of all its students, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School maintains a substantial commitment to providing financial aid. Any applicant who has been accepted to St. Andrew’s may apply for financial aid based on family need. To be eligible to receive financial assistance, families are required to complete a confidential financial statement, which is sent directly to School and Student Service for Financial Aid (SSS) in Pittsburgh, PA. SSS analyzes this information and suggests the amount that a family can reasonably afford. Within the limits of available funds, St. Andrew’s provides financial aid grants consistent with the SSS recommendation. Financial aid information and forms are available through theBusiness Office. Student Body Profile: Male:Female Ratio is 48.2:51.8 Episcopal Enrollment is 26.3% of all students The Class of 2013 has 43% students who are Alpha Omega (students continuously enrolled from 1st through 12th grade) Students of color account for 25.7% of our population, with an additional 2.5% of students who did not report ethnicity Caucasian - 71.8% African American - 12.6% Asian - 7.8% Asian Indian - 1.7% Other - 0.2% Multi-racial - 4.2% Hispanic American - 0.6% Middle Eastern - 0.3% No response - 2.5%

	St. Andrew's Facts
	We expect 23% of the Class of 2014 to be named Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. 19.6% of the Class of 2013 were recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.  Eleven (11) were National Merit Semifinalists.  An additional four (4) were National Achievement Semifinalists, and one student was named a National Hispanic Scholar.   Two additional students received Letters of Commendation. The average ACT score for the Class of 2013 is 28.7.  The middle 50% of the scores for this class is 27-31. The average SAT score for the Class of 2013 is 1900.   The middle 50% of the scores for this class is 1710-2110. In 2012, 119 students in grades 10 through 12 completed 274 AP exams in 26 subjects. Fifty-four of these scored well enough on their exams to be recognized as AP Scholars; that’s 45% of all the students who sat for an exam. 36 of 40 of Mississippi’s AP State Scholars are St. Andrew’s graduates. Each year, the U.S. Department of Education recognizes one academically outstanding young man and one academically outstanding young woman as Presidential Scholars.   The male Presidential Scholar for Mississippi in 2013 is a St. Andrew’s senior.   In the last six years, five of the Presidential Scholars have been St. Andrew’s seniors. In its second year competing in 3A play, St. Andrew's Episcopal School won the Clarion-Ledger's All Sports Award for that class.  This is the 12th year in a row that St. Andrew's has won the title. St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi and one of only 49 schools nationwide to receive a $2 million Malone Family Foundation grant to create scholarships for academically gifted students with financial need. The St. Andrew's Touchstone Endowment stands at more than $8 million. St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi with a Chair of Membership in Emory University’s Barkley Forum for Speech and Debate. The St. Andrew’s Upper School Band has received superior ratings for 17 consecutive years. The St. Andrew’s Choirs have received superior ratings for 20 consecutive years. Worth named St. Andrew’s one of the top 100 feeder schools for the Ivy League.  St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi to earn this distinction. Cited at TheBestSchools.org as #18 in a list of the top 50 private day schools in the nation.  St. Andrew’s 2012 College Fair brought representatives from 65 four-year colleges and universities nationwide to campus.

	Curriculum
	Lower School Curriculum   Middle School Curriculum   Upper School Curriculum

	About Grades and Class Rank
	Only grades earned at St. Andrew's are included in the cumulative grade point average. Grades on the transcript are not weighted. However, .5 is added to the numerical value of AP course grades and .25 is added to the numerical value of honors courses for the purpose of calculating cumulative grade point averages. St. Andrew's does not rank its students, except for the purpose of determining the winner of the Board of Trustees Award  (valedictorian) and membership in the Cum Laude Society. .

	Advanced Placement Exam Scores for Classes of 2007 to 2012
	Subject Grade 5 Grade 4 Grade 3 Grade 2 Grade 1 Art History 21 15 7 9 2 Biology 13 29 16 17 12 Calculus AB 49 24 12 3 1 Calculus AB Subscore 1 0 0 0 0 Calculus BC 8 2 0 0 0 Chemistry 1 0 0 0 0 Comparative Government and Politics 16 13 11 1 0 English Language 112 67 31 2 1 English Literature 50 68 57 6 0 Environmental Science 1 0 0 0 0 European History 40 32 27 3 0 French Language 0 4 5 6 1 German 1 0 0 0 0 Human Geography 20 12 12 2 1 Italian 1 0 0 0 0 Latin Literature 11 9 14 4 0 Latin Vergil 14 13 9 4 1 Macroeconomics 0 0 1 1 0 Microeconomics 1 6 2 3 2 Music Theory 8 14 9 1 0 Music Theory - Aural Subscore 3 2 1 1 0 Music Theory - Nonaural Subscore 4 1 2 0 0 Physics B 25 45 46 22 9 Physics C (Electricity and Magnetism) 14 22 7 3 1 Physics C (Mechanics) 12 23 14 6 0 Psychology 3 3 1 0 0 Spanish language 11 5 8 3 0 Statistics 9 14 15 1 3 Studio Art (2D) 5 7 16 19 1 Studio Art (3D) 0 0 0 0 1 Studio Art (Drawing) 0 3 6 7 0 U.S. Government and Politics 21 10 20 4 0 US History 58 44 19 7 1 World History 15 5 1 0 0  Total Number 548 492 369 135 37 Number of students taking an AP: 335 Total number of AP tests: 1581 % of students scoring 4 or 5: 66% % of students score 3 and above: 89%

	SAT
	Class of 2013 Middle 50% Mean Overall 1710-2110 1900 Critical Reading 580-710 642 Math 550-670 616 Writing 550-720 642     Class of 2012 Middle 50% Mean Overall 1670-2110 1889 Critical Reading 550-720 634 Math 550-670 617 Writing 570-700 638     SAT Subject Test Scores – Summary for Classes 2008-2012 Section Middle 50% Mean Students Tested Biology – Ecology 600 - 680 643 7 Biology – Molecular 630 - 740 681 20 Chemistry 570 - 690 635 35 English Literature 640 - 740 680 90 French 540 - 680 622 5 French with Listening 580 - 580 580 1 Japanese with Listening 620 - 800 710 2 Latin 510 - 650 591 9 Math Level I 570 - 690 628 40 Math Level II 600 - 740 674 70 Physics 610 - 740 680 43 Panish 570 - 720 634 10 Spanish with Listening 630 - 720 677 7 U.S. History 670 - 740 698 64 World History 670 - 670 670 1

	ACT
	ACT Summary for Class of 2013   Section Middle 50% Mean English 27 – 33 30.3 Math 25 – 30 27.6 Reading 27 – 34 30.2 Science Reasoning 25 – 31 27.8 Composite 27 – 31 28.7     ACT Summary for Class of 2012   Section Middle 50% Mean English 29 - 34 31.1 Math 26 - 30 28.2 Reading 27 - 33 30.2 Science Reasoning 25 - 30 27.9 Composite 27 - 31 28.7

	Class of 2013 College Matriculations
	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa - 2 University of Alabama-Birmingham - 1 Auburn University - 2 Birmingham-Southern College- 1 Bryn Mawr College - 1 Brown University - 1 University of California-Los Angeles - 1 California Institute of Technology - 1 Georgetown University- 1 Grambling State University - 1 Hinds Community College - 1 Howard University- 2 Lawrence University - 1 Louisiana State University - 1 Loyola University-Chicago - 1 Loyola University-New Orleans - 2 Millsaps College - 5 University of Mississippi - 26 Mississippi State University - 10 University of Southern Mississippi - 1 New York University - 1 Northwestern/Feinberg Sch. Of Medicine-1 Oglethorpe University - 1 University of Pittsburgh - 1 Portland State University - 1 Rhodes College - 3 Rice University - 1 Samford University- 1 Savannah College of Art & Design - 1 Sewanee:   University of the South - 5 University of Southern California - 1 Texas Christian University - 1 Trinity University, Texas - 1 Tulane University - 1 Tuskegee University- 1 Vanderbilt University - 3 Villanova University- 1 Washington University in St. Louis - 2 Academic Gap Year in Israel- 1