Organization Profile
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
Organization Overview
Named one of the eight most beautiful high schools in the South by Southern Living magazine, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School (www.sasweb.org) is a private, co-educational, Episcopal, day and boarding college-preparatory school serving 240 students in grades 6-12. Established in 1868, the school welcomes students from across the country and around the world. Our faculty and staff appreciate abundant outdoor adventure, access to the cultural opportunities of the nearby University of the South, and the joy of cultivating close relationships in a small community. At SAS, we challenge our students to fulfill their greatest potential while helping them to cultivate lives of balance and joy.
The School has a profound commitment to academic excellence and recently announced several exciting initiatives including enhanced outdoors and arts programming, and greater financial accessibility. The School’s mission follows:
• To be an inclusive Christian community in which the Episcopal heritage is central;
• To provide superior preparation for college;
• To provide educational opportunities for those students for whom such experiences might not otherwise be available;
• To bring all members of the community to a richer spiritual, intellectual, social, physical, and aesthetic awareness, so that they might lead lives of honor and loving service to God and others.
The SAS campus is comprised of 300,000 square feet of buildings spread over 550-acres set on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga, in Sewanee, Tenn. The School is independent but maintains a strategic and historic relationship with the University of the South.
Organization History
Tracing its history to the 1868 founding of the "Junior Department" of the University of the South, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School is the result of the 1981 merger of St. Andrew's School (est. 1905) and Sewanee Academy (est. 1971). These schools were preceded by the Junior Department of the University of the South (1868-69), the Sewanee Grammar School (1869-1908), St. Mary's School (1896-1968), and Sewanee Military Academy (1908-1971).
St. Andrew's-Sewanee has much of the character prescribed for the University of the South by its Board of Trustees in 1857: a close relationship with the Episcopal Church; a location in the central South (the Sewanee location was said to meet the requirement of "easy and speedy access" by train); a student body drawn from a wider area than the immediate community; distance from any city in order to create its own environment; and a location in a region considered healthy because of its height above sea level, and thus freer from the yellow fever, malaria and cholera prevalent in the lowlands. These factors were principal reasons, along with munificent gifts of lands, that Sewanee was chosen as the site for the parent schools of St. Andrew's-Sewanee.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Two-time Tennessee State Ethics Bowl Champions
Named one of the eight most beautiful high schools in the South by Southern Living magazine
Alma mater of authors James Agee, Max Gladstone, Jack Hitt, and Robin Hemley; actors Brian Jordan Alvarez, Sean Bridgers, Bruce Cabot, Stuart Margolin, Whitney Able, and Elisabeth Röhm; musicians Kix Brooks and Stephen Barber; National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez; politicians Saxby Chambliss and Vail M. Pittman; filmmaker Mike deGruy; entrepreneurs Charles Duncan, Jr.; poets George Garrett and Caki Wilkinson; Surgeon General of the U.S. Army William Crawford Gorgas; Major General Haywood S. Hansell; athletes Rip Hawkins and C. J. McCoy; attorneys Henry Finch Holland and John Jay Hooker; environmentalists David Lodge (biologist) and Eban Goodstein (economist)
Benefits
Benefits may include a tuition remission plan, health and dental insurance, worker’s compensation, short-term and long-term disability, group life insurance, retirement plan, and eligibility for grants for professional enrichment and continuing education.