ABOUT

Welcome

Welcome to St. Andrew’s Episcopal School! As you navigate the website, you will discover opportunities for spiritual formation, academics, fine arts, and athletic experiences that round out our comprehensive program. Our talented faculty and staff bring to life a challenging curriculum each and every day with love and care. For over 70 years, the School’s mission has focused on equipping students with the skills and confidence required to become happy, well-adjusted, and contributing members of a rapidly changing and demanding world.

One of the hallmarks of St. Andrew’s is the strong-knit community, which includes families representing different religious persuasions and various ethnic and economic backgrounds. An 11-year range between the beginning year of the early childhood program and the 8th grade provides the framework to form lasting friendships among St. Andrew’s students, faculty, staff, parents, grandparents, and friends.

The School was founded by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church parishioners in 1951. While the Church and School are now separate legal entities, the relationship between the Church and School is prioritized through weekly chapel services and community events throughout the year. Our Episcopal identity and “respect for the dignity of every human being” is at the root of the School’s emphasis on service to the broader Amarillo community. Students are encouraged to cultivate a heart for others at a young age, and the concept of servant leadership is woven into the fabric of school life throughout all grades.

Our focus on Early Childhood-8th grade is one of our many strengths, and we welcome you to join us on campus and learn more about the EC-8th grade advantage. We invite you to ask questions, visit classrooms, to talk with teachers and administrators as you discern important decisions regarding your child’s education.

I hope to see you soon!

Warmly, 

Jessica Leibowitz Morris | Head of School

Mission

St. Andrew’s grounds our values in the Christian faith. This calls us to “seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbor as ourselves” while respecting the dignity of all human beings. A sense of belonging is essential to a climate of learning and serves as the optimal mode of preparation for our students’ futures. We strive to act with compassion, love, and integrity as that stands in contrast to exclusion, intolerance, and mistrust.

St. Andrew’s is a place where people from all different types of perspectives and traditions show up and engage in the joyful process of learning. This is what we love to do, learn together. And this is what we were created to do by God.

Motto

St. Andrew’s Episcopal School: Joyfully Worship, Learn, Create, and Serve Together

Mission Statement

St. Andrew’s joyfully cultivates life-long learners in a community that embraces inquiry and curiosity, a love of God, and service to others.

Episcopal Identity

Why is faith so important at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School?

Being an Episcopal school is at the core of who we are as a school. Our faith is not just found in our chapel or religion classes but can be seen in the hallways, in school activities, and in the community. Our faith shapes and forms us. Our faith inspires us when we are challenged, comforts us when life is difficult, and confirms our worth. The most important lesson we want students to learn from our faith life here is that God created and loves them, no matter what!

How does the diversity of our students’ faith backgrounds play a role at St. Andrew’s?

Although all students attend our chapel and religion classes, we cultivate understanding, connections, and respect for children and families who have different beliefs. We can all learn from one another about our different traditions. It is through understanding each other better that we’ll build a more peaceful world. St. Andrew’s is not here to proselytize children. Part of our faith commitment is to love and support each child, regardless of their religious affiliation. Every day our teachers and staff encourage, support, and challenge our students to be the people that God created them to be.

Faith Formation

Our students engage in hands-on, experiential explorations of faith through the ecumenical Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS) curriculum. The goal of CGS is to involve children and adults of all faith backgrounds in a common religious experience in which the religious values of childhood – particularly contemplation and enjoyment of God — are predominant. Free to self-select classroom materials developed according to Montessori’s pedagogy, the youngest children (primer through kindergarten) discover that they are each wrapped individually in the protective and unshakeable love of the Creator. First through third graders explore the sacred history, biblical canon, and sacraments to deepen an understanding of their call to live in community with one another and God. Fourth through seventh-grade students begin to explore their own unique calls to work in God’s Kingdom through multi-week units allowing students to engage in a critical exegesis of foundational texts from Hebrew scriptures as well as engage in deeper studies of the sacraments. Eighth graders live out the admonition from the book of James to express our faith in our actions, not just our words, and explore servant leadership in the community. All students explore scripture, biblical geography, sacred history, and liturgy in an environment welcoming to all faiths and respectful of individual family traditions.

Chapel Program

We live out our faith formally at times and in other times, more organically. Our student body gathers for special events and services which provide hallmark experiences for our entire community. We gather at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. If interested, please see their website at www.standrewsamarillo.org.

Service

Our service learning program at St. Andrew’s School develops well-educated, responsible, and compassionate individuals who make a difference in their communities, whether those communities are their school, their city, or their world.  By serving others, our students develop a sense of social consciousness and empathy at an early age. We want our students to be able to recognize a need when they see one and to have the confidence, problem-solving skills, and compassion to help meet that need. 

We are confident that our students will be leaders in their worlds – understanding that service to others makes the world a better place for all of us.

  • High Plains Food Bank Garden

    Salvation Army Angel Tree

    Snack Pak 4 Kids

    The Amarillo Children’s Home

    Texas Panhandle War Memorial

    Opportunity School

    Ware Memorial And Park Central Assisted Living

    Eastridge Elementary

    Wildcat Bluff Nature Preserve

    Panhandle PBS

    Panhandle Pet Savers

    Socks For Soldiers

    Storybridge Amarillo

    Windows on a Wider World

    Special Olympics

    High Plains Food Bank

    United Way Day of Service

    Another Chance House

    Faith City Mission

    Veterans Administration Hospital

    The Craig Retirement Living

    Amarillo Zoo

    Amarillo Humane Society

    Martha’s Home

    The Bridge

    Texas Panhandle JDRF

    Guyon Saunders

    Mission Amarillo

    ADVO

    CASA

    A World for Children

    Amarillo College

    Hope for Heroes

    Colorful Closets Amarillo

Traditions

At St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, we take pride in our kind and servant-minded school culture; much of this is guided by the traditions we practice each year as a community. During your child’s years at St. Andrew’s, they will have opportunities to engage in these traditions individually and with their peers—creating memories they will cherish forever.

  • Primer-Kindergarten students attend Chapel once a week with music, bible stories, and lessons. Students in 1st-8th grade have Chapel every Wednesday and Morning Prayer every Thursday. Eucharist Chapel is on the first Wednesday of each month, and we have special services throughout the year.

  • In this time-honored event, St. Andrew’s alumni who are graduating high school are welcomed back for this Eucharist. They receive a blessing as they cross this important threshold as young adults.

  • Families are encouraged to bring their pets to be blessed in honor of St. Francis. Dogs, cats, horses, goats, snakes, hamsters, lizards, frogs, and even cockroaches have received the blessings of this day.

  • In this beloved event, we welcome our students’ friends, grandparents, and other relatives to visit our campus for a special chapel service that showcases all of the students.

  • Honored throughout the year, students who are celebrating birthdays receive a special blessing surrounded by their family members, teachers, and friends.

  • Following the liturgical calendar, all community members are welcome to attend this signature event which kicks off the Lenten season.

  • We honor the paschal mystery with the Procession of the Palms and the Maundy Thursday service. Easter is celebrated the first Eucharist after Easter Sunday.

  • In the Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols, we all gather together for this century-old, traditional church service of song, scripture, and light.

Careers

Great schools are not defined by their brick and mortar, and they are built by teachers who are masters of their craft and who know that transformative learning starts with knowing and loving students. We provide careers for professional educators who understand the opportunity and the responsibility of the autonomy with which we entrust our faculty, the mastery with which we hold ourselves accountable, and the purpose by which we collectively galvanize our efforts. Just as we provide opportunities for our students to strive together, we ask our faculty to do the same. Not limited by mandated curriculum or onerous testing requirements, we ask our faculty to design learning environments that are distinctive…that cannot be experienced anywhere else. To do so, we ask faculty to be bold and flexible in their thinking.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal School believes that each individual is entitled to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, military service, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws. St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s equal employment opportunity practices extend to recruitment, hiring, selection, compensation, benefits, transfer, promotion, training, discipline, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

Open Positions

To pursue a career at St. Andrew’s is to accept a calling to unleash and celebrate the unique gifts everyone in our community – students, parents, colleagues – bring to the table. We look forward to learning more about how you can make us an even better place for children. Please contact us for more information on how you can make an impact at St. Andrew’s. Note that all positions require candidates to submit a completed application and background check form to our main office.

All candidates are required to submit background check forms with application materials. Background checks will not be performed until a candidate becomes a finalist.

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