SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL

Conducts approximately forty-five-minute individual admissions interviews with each applicant as part of its enrollment process.

Provides a non-traditional independent school education for nearly 1,100 students without formal grading, prizes, or rankings, focusing on individual student capacities and development. Offers instruction from preschool through Grade 10, with occasional admissions into Grade 11 based on availability.

Organizes recurring academic and community events including One Book Day (centered on The Teacher of Nomad Land in 2026), Library Adventure and Library Magic events, summer reading list releases, and author visits featuring published writers such as Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, Tayari Jones, Major Jackson, and Jennifer Egan.

Defines, operationalizes, and integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) into all aspects of school culture, daily operations, and institutional practices. Ensures non-discrimination in admissions, education, employment, financial aid, and school programs on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and other protected categories.

Provides weekly computer science instruction starting in third grade, covering typing, storytelling, multimedia projects, animation, circuitry, programming, 3D printing, web design with databases, smartphone programming, and introductory computing. Offers advanced high school courses in Compiler Design, Graphics Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Game Programming, and Algorithms for Genetic Sequencing.

Runs auxiliary programs including educational trips, food services, student publications, and student-generated artistic, scientific, and recreational projects.

Offers sequential art instruction beginning in preschool and lower school with foundational skills in image and object making, expanding to upper middle school electives in drawing and digital photography, and comprehensive high school courses in drawing, painting, photography, animation, sculpture, printmaking, architecture, and 3D animation using clay, cardboard, and digital editing tools. Also offers an art history course every other year that analyzes global artistic styles in political, economic, and social contexts.

Produces and publishes student research and creative work through annual publications including the Art Journal, Science Explorations (Volume 15), Middle School Literary Magazine, and Saint Ann's Times. These are supported as part of auxiliary educational programs.

Hosts Alumni Day and other alumni events for graduates and former students, collects and shares personal and professional updates through the Saint Ann's Times, and operates an Annual Fund to solicit financial contributions from the alumni community.

Offers a three-year language structures program (grades 4–6) analyzing English grammar and comparing it with Latin, followed by electives in Latin, Greek, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese for grades 7 and above, including accelerated Latin and Greek courses. Literature curriculum includes diverse authors and global works, with students reading Chimamanda Adichie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zora Neale Hurston, Shakespeare, Morrison, Lahiri, Baldwin, and others, and engaging with texts from Pakistan, Iran, Japan, and Latin America. Celebrates cultural events such as the Moon Festival and Chinese New Year with calligraphy, lantern-making, and singing.