Who We Are

Our Purpose

We want our children to grow up with a passionate desire to seek and understand truth. We do not want well-educated adults who have merely learned to “win” arguments or “spin” facts. Rather, they should understand truth and be concerned to promote and defend it persuasively. We believe that this is an essential component of healthy families, a healthy culture, government, and society.

Mission Statement

As a classical, Christian school, St. Stephen’s Academy aims to provide an academically excellent education in a grace-filled environment that develops Christian character and equips students with tools of learning that will last a lifetime.

Our Vision

The vision of St. Stephen’s Academy is to be one of the leading PreK-12 classical Christian schools on the West Coast. We aim to equip children to be lifelong learners and to provide them with a body of knowledge that enables them to comprehend the world in which they live, to engage contemporary culture with a biblical worldview, and to communicate clearly and graciously. To accomplish our mission we are dedicated to a time-tested classical curriculum, the Trivium, whose three stages correspond to a child’s natural stages of development.

We aim to employ and retain a highly qualified faculty and staff who understand and are committed to the classical model and who will pass on a love of learning to their students. We will continue to enhance the quality of academic education and extra-curricular activities. We are committed to build on our foundation of accreditation with the Association of Classical & Christian Schools. Our model of education is intended to open the door for our graduates to be lifelong learners, contributing to the advance of God’s kingdom wherever He may call them.

Our Values

We believe in the Triune God who has revealed Himself in Creation and, supremely, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bible which bears witness to Him. We believe that God has called us to worship Him with our minds. Therefore, we desire to provide an environment within which each child will be given the opportunity to develop his or her mind within the framework of a Biblical worldview. We also believe that God the Son left the glory of heaven to serve, even in the shame and pain of death on a cross. We are called to follow in Christ’s footsteps of humble service. Therefore, the school desires to serve the community as a ministry of the church with which we are associated. The school recognizes its foundations in the reformed tradition, as articulated in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

The practical application of these values includes:

• Handling disagreements and discipline biblically
• Maintaining a quiet, ordered and disciplined environment that allows each child to apply himself to his or her studies
• Using recess as an opportunity for wholesome play
• Maintaining good relations with the community in which the school is placed
• Acknowledging God’s sovereign grace in all aspects of the school and modeling this grace in the school community and beyond
• Managing the resources that God has given us in a fiscally responsible manner.