Welcome to St. Anne's Episcopal School!

We have opened for our fifth  school year with great energy and enthusiasm. In keeping with the mission statement, students from Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade continue embarking on a challenging academic curriculum, tending their vegetable gardens, creating an opera in third grade, playing competitive middle school sports and speaking Spanish. Most teachers have a master’s degree or state certification, and all members have an obvious love for students. The religious curriculum invites teachers and the school chaplain to teach a values-based education program that focuses on this Episcopal school’s model of respect, responsibility and compassion. Students attend weekly chapel services and study world religions. The scope and sequence of the academic program is detailed here on the website.

St. Anne’s opened its doors in 2002  to more than 180 students from Middletown, Newark, Dover and Maryland’s eastern shore thanks to a generous gift from St. Andrew’s School, along with contributions from Foundations and friends of the community.  The school is now nearly full. 

“St. Anne’s is a great resource for this community,” said Head of School Harvey Zendt, a Townsend resident and former Assistant to the Headmaster at St. Andrew’s School. “We feel we have the campus, facility and program that will allow young men and women to flourish as students, athletes, artists and citizens of the community.”

Applications are being accepted in most grades. Financial Assistance is available to families who qualify. More than 40% of the students at St. Anne’s receive some form of financial aid. The application process includes submission of an application and fee, teacher recommendations, transcripts and testing, a family and/or student visit, and testing which the school administers. Please call (302) 378-3179 now for more information or to attend an Open House.

What does it mean that St. Anne's is an Episcopal School?

St. Anne's Episcopal School honors and celebrates its Christian heritage while respecting the values and beliefs of other faith traditions. We seek to help students and their families nurture their faiths and strive to live according to our core values of respect, responsibility and compassion as they apply to our selves, our school, our community, our society, our environment and our world. The Episcopal tradition is one which encourages open inquiry. We want to encourage students to know themselves as children of God, to follow a spiritual path which is comfortable for them, and to recognize the inter-connectedness of the spiritual with the intellectual, physical, emotional and social aspects of life.

Some ways we express our identity as an Episcopal school are:

We intentionally live out our spiritual mission by example.

Every aspect of school life—teacher-student relationships, discipline and classroom management, leadership among students and faculty, academic and non-academic programs, family involvement, admissions and financial aid, administrative duties and hiring policies—takes seriously issues of love and justice which are emphasized in the Judeo-Christian tradition and which are expressed in St. Anne's core values of respect, responsibility and compassion.

We nurture our faith in daily devotions and chapel services.

Every class day will begin with a devotional time to discuss issues, to connect with one another, to pray, sing, be silent, or otherwise nurture and share our spiritual lives. Every week all students and faculty will attend and participate in age-appropriate chapel services when we will pray, sing, share and listen as we come to know God better and deal with real life issues of thanksgiving, celebration, sadness, fear, personal morality and social justice. The Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and, at times, other worship sources from both Christian and non-Christian traditions will be used. The chaplain will also conduct voluntary services of Holy Communion on a regular basis, as well as on major Christian holidays and other occasions as announced.

We provide religious education.

All students will participate in weekly religion classes covering the Bible, world religions, the church and sacraments, holiday traditions and ethics. Religion and spirituality will be taught as an integral part of life and the school curriculum.

We encourage and require community service.

Service to the school and the wider community as well as stewardship of the environment will be encouraged and required through both classroom and extra-curricular activities. Families will also be encouraged to engage in community service. Societal needs and social justice issues will be addressed through service opportunities, academics and chapel services.

We maintain and nurture a relationship with the Episcopal Church.

The faculty and administrative group includes a chaplain who is an ordained priest of the church, and the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware regularly visits the school. The Bishop is also a member of the Board of Trustees. Ties to the local Episcopal parish are encouraged. The school will have an active worship and sacramental life in the Episcopal tradition.

O Eternal God, bless all schools, colleges, and universities,
 that they may be lively centers for sound learning, new discovery, and the pursuit of wisdom;
 and grant that those who teach and those who learn may find you to be the source of all truth;
 through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 Amen.
 The Book of Common Prayer