About us

Since 1980, St. Gregory has offered college-bound students an exemplary education. A challenging curriculum, small classes, dedicated and committed teachers, and state-of-the-art facilities create an environment where students mature both intellectually and personally.

Virtually all of our graduates continue their studies in colleges and universities of their choice. You will find St. Gregory graduates at Columbia and Dartmouth, the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona Honors Program, Yale and Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Bard, Johns Hopkins and other fine schools across the United States.

St. Gregory is the only school in southern Arizona accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND STUDENTS
The faculty is the cornerstone of any school. At St. Gregory, we are proud of the proven experience and academic credentials of our teachers, most of whom hold advanced degrees in the fields in which they teach.

But there is another essential quality we seek. Because our teachers work closely with students in so many aspects of their lives outside the classroom, our faculty also must have a genuine interest in and affection for young people, and a strong commitment to helping them succeed in school and in life.

Our teacher-to-student ratio of approximately 1:9 assures that students know their teachers personally and have ready access to them both for individual help and enrichment opportunities.

A FAMILY AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP
We strive to create a strong sense of community – a partnership among students, parents, and faculty. At St. Gregory, people know one another, support each other in their successes, and work together to create a nurturing, supportive environment.

Our goal is to maintain a learning environment that fosters intellectual independence and acuity, discriminating judgment, purposeful curiosity, and aesthetic appreciation.

We are a nonsectarian independent school that thrives on the diversity of our students, who come from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds. In this rich and varied community, we strive to cultivate in our students such virtues as honor, courage, trust, and compassion for others.

A LIFELONG LEARNING ADVENTURE
Education is fundamentally a personal journey from the relatively secure dependence of childhood to the responsibility and independence of adulthood. Though this journey is long and always challenging, we think it is important that students think of it as an adventure.

That adventure not only prepares students for college, but also for life itself. We firmly believe that the learning process should be valued as an end in itself. At its best, education should stimulate in the young an adventuresome spirit, a questioning intellect and a disciplined and orderly method for interpreting experience. Those attributes serve students well, no matter what paths they choose in life.