Academics

Upper School | 9-12

Welcome to the Upper School

Educating the whole boy continues through Upper School. The coordinate program with St. Catherine’s allows boys and girls to come together as intellectual peers in coed classes and offers a broad array of course options. Academic rigor intensifies while sports, the arts and extracurricular activities broaden.

St. Christopher’s exposes students to diverse opportunities that allow them to explore a multitude of interests – including woodworking, Jazz Band, and digital video to name a few. We field 14 interscholastic sports teams and offer other after-school options for boys who opt out of athletics.

Highlights

Daily chapel service
X-Term, an experiential learning program
Exchange program with schools in Australia and New Zealand;
Three school plays
A series of music and choral concerts, including Lessons and Carols at Christmas
Ongoing service projects
Mentor relationships with Middle School boys
A peer advisor program where juniors and seniors work with freshmen to ease the transition to Upper School
An environmental awareness group
Robotics
Regional science competitions
School and regional poetry competitions
Battle of the Books
Political awareness club
A school literary magazine, Hieroglyphic
A printed and online newspaper, The Pine Needle
Field trips to plays, art exhibits, and other regional places of interest that tie in with curriculum study
1:1 technology model

Join a Club!

Battle of the Brains
Beaux Ties
Building a Better RPS
Chess Club
Cooking Club
Ducks Unlimited
Gay Straight Alliance
Global Ambassadors
Habitat for Humanity
Hieroglyphic
History Club
Houlagan’s Saints
Investment Club
MIND
Philosophy Club
The Pine Needle
Political Awareness Club
Raps and Taps
Robotics
Science Bowl
Saturday Academy
Sports Discussion Club
St. ChristoCURES
SEAA
What’s Next?

“In the end, what matters most about what happens on this campus, in this place, is what kind of person you become. Will you be a man of excellence who strives to do your best in the class, on the athletic field, in your other activities? Will you become a man of honor whose word is good and true? Will you be a man of courage who will choose the hard right over the easy wrong? Will you be a man of compassion who provides another with an opportunity even at some cost to yourself? This is what we want to do—and it is a lot harder than just taking some classes. You can do that anywhere. But here you will be asked to find out all that you can do and be.”

-- Tony Szymendera, Former Upper School Head