Personalized Learning

Because of our low 5:1 total student-to-teacher ratio, we develop meaningful relationships with each student, can group students by abilities and learning profiles in leveled breakout sessions and track each student’s goals and progress with parents.

Our classrooms and ratios shift—hour by hour and subject by subject—to shape education for each student. Dynamic and flexible student groupings are part of how we challenge and support your child. Based on students’ goals, strengths and areas of growth, students transition between flexibly leveled reading and math groups, Creative Arts electives, Resource and speech-language support (as needed) and more.

This approach teaches students how to ask for help and encourages them to take risks, and sets them up for life beyond StG—in high school, college and even the workplace.

While our overall ratio is 5:1, how does that look in specific divisions and groupings?

• 3:1 in the infant nursery
• 5:1 in Early Childhood classrooms
• 6:1 in Lower School reading groups
• 8.5:1 in Lower School math groups
• 8.5:1 in Middle School advisory groups
• 3:1 in Resource sessions
• 2:1 in speech-language sessions

Our success teams—made up of teachers, coaches, advisors, Resource specialists, parents and administrators—guide all students to reach their personal best.

Success teams meet regularly about each student to discuss a holistic picture of his or her learning profile and progress. The teams identify strengths and areas of growth and track student goals, peer relationships, academic strategies and more.

Your child’s success team includes:

• Teachers: At the center of it all, teachers lead their students’ success teams and serve as their advisors.

• Resource specialists: Resource specialists offer support to the grade-level team by providing academic and/or speech-language intervention to those students demonstrating learning challenges, as well as support to teachers with implementing classroom strategies for all students to achieve optimal educational success.

• Administrators: Division Directors and our Counseling and Wellness Team know every student by name and discuss learning strategies to help students achieve their goals in grade-level meetings.

• Parents: Parents are an integral part of their children's success teams; collaborative and regular communication between parents and the faculty—whether through the Brightwheel app, email, phone call or conference—allows for consistent implementation of strategies and awareness of academic and social-emotional goals.

At St. George’s, we continuously assess each child’s abilities—on a daily, weekly, monthly basis—to provide the right mix of challenge and support. This approach creates a blended learning environment that unlocks pathways to each child’s individual success.

How we challenge and support each child:

• Small-group leveled sessions in math and reading/ELA
• 2:1 speech-language and 3:1 Resource group support
• Learning strategies for unique learning styles
• Project Approach investigations with hands-on self-exploration, site visits and student-led collaboration
• Talented and Gifted enrichment courses in areas where students excel
• Interest-based enrichment clusters
• Robust Creative Arts courses with a focus on process vs. product-based results
• Our house system, Student Council, sports teams, Academic Games competitions, school-wide assemblies and more