Coed Day School, West Village, NYC
St. Luke’s School is a coeducational day school enrolling approximately 275 students of all faiths from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 8.
Founded in 1945, St. Luke’s offers a balanced and challenging curriculum that serves intellectually curious and able students in a small, intimate learning environment. Located on a two-acre landmark block in the West Village, the School has spacious outdoor facilities and large, sunny classrooms.
The academic program balances basic skills and critical thinking with collaborative learning and interdisciplinary study. The School is divided into a Lower School (Junior Kindergarten - Grade 4) and an Upper School (Grades 5 – 8). Arts and creative expression are an integral part of daily life. Science, foreign language, physical education, and multimedia technology complement a core curriculum in reading, writing, and mathematics. We hope that our graduates will become lifelong learners who are confident, competent, and self-aware.
Small by intent and design, St. Luke’s size promotes openness, accessibility, and collaboration. Students are encouraged to become active, responsible, and contributing members of the school community. Honesty, respect, excellence, compassion, and dignity constitute the School’s Community Standards. These qualities develop caring and responsible individuals who grow in service to others.
St. Luke’s School graduates enroll in outstanding independent day and boarding schools as well as specialized public high schools.
At St. Luke's School, we seek to give our students a sound cognitive foundation for their lives and prepare them for admission to and continuing success in future schools. As an Episcopal Church School, we also seek to do something more.
St. Luke's is a small school, deliberately. Its size enables us to focus on each child as an individual. Its size also allows everyone to know everyone else. It fosters a feeling of family -- a supportive climate of trust and understanding, communicating values and building community. In this environment, children form positive relationships with classmates and teachers, with older children and with younger ones.
St. Luke's is coeducational and heterogeneous. Its students and faculty come from a variety of backgrounds -- racial, ethnic, economic, religious. We value and actively encourage this mutually enriching diversity. It is part of the process of helping each child discover his or her own uniqueness and infinite worth as a human being -- and at the same time, that of others.
St. Luke's is a traditional school, in that it has a strong academic curriculum, high standards, clear and consistent boundaries and expectations. Within that structure, we emphasize freedom. We use varied educational approaches and techniques to help stimulate independent thinking -- to free the children to question, challenge, explore, and pursue truth wherever it leads. We encourage them to express their imagination and creative powers, in science and mathematics as well as in words, music, and art. Interdisciplinary teaching allows content from one subject area to reinforce another and open up fresh insights.
Above all, St. Luke's seeks to awaken in children a lifelong love of learning, a sense of joy and wonder at God's universe, and a deep feeling of connection to the natural world. We hope that whatever they go on to do and be, we will have prepared them to be good stewards of the world's resources -- responsible, caring members of one global human community.
