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Who We Are
Who We Are
At St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School, we encourage our students to extend their fascination with the world, to gain confidence about their roles in the world, and to understand the world more fully through others.
Our Values
Our Values
St. Patrick’s is committed to the ideals of equity and inclusion in all aspects of our program and community—in our curriculum, student body, and faculty and staff. Our emphasis on inclusion and service stems from our Episcopal Identity.
Programs
Programs
Our talented faculty and staff care deeply about the well-being of each student and possess the skills and experience to support a variety of learning styles. Our program is well-respected by peer institutions and prepares students for placement at premier secondary schools in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond.
Admission
Admission and Financial Aid
We invite you to learn more about St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School by exploring these pages and submitting an inquiry or application through our online system. We look forward to welcoming you and your family into the St. Patrick's community!
Support
Supporting St. Patrick's
Since the Day School’s founding in 1956, our community’s strong sense of mission and engagement in the lives of our students has made St. Patrick’s the extraordinary place it is today.

Project & Inquiry-Based Learning

Crafting probing questions about important topics and then having their research and exploration supported, face-to-face and shoulder-to-shoulder, by exceptional teachers enables students to achieve a deeper level of understanding in their academic work.

Throughout Project-Based Learning (PBL) units, students develop their own driving questions to guide their research, have opportunities to collaborate with classmates, and create final products that reveal their findings and, ultimately, impart their new knowledge to wider audiences. In this conception of education, faculty members act as facilitators, allowing for a significant level of student self-direction.

Learn more about our STEAM curriculum!

At St. Patrick’s, students pursue their curiosity in inquiry-based units across the humanities and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) fields and at every grade level. We incorporate Harvard's Project Zero approach of look, see, wonder to help us nurture that curiosity.

We consider project- and inquiry-based learning, along with other innovative approaches to teaching, essential to motivating our students to remain inspired and curious. At St. Patrick's, students love to learn.