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St Ann's School

129 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 -

School Notes Overview:

Saint Ann’s School is not unusual in wanting to prepare children creatively and efficiently in the academic disciplines and the arts, and surely not unique in wanting students who demonstrate amply the necessary aptitude and motivation. What is out of the ordinary, we think, is our habit of giving students freedom to achieve, to value learning more than propriety, to trust the unadorned pleasures of learning, unassisted by point scores, prizes, rankings, and punishments. At Saint Ann’s it is hard to distinguish curriculum from community. A curriculum is traditionally thought of as a sequence of concepts and details, assumed to be related to each other, and thought to be learnable in a given period. For us, however, the curriculum is pervasive: a vehicle for learning skills as well as facts; the medium of our friendship with children; a source of humor and poetry; a focus for activities across the disciplines and for formalisms from art to algebra. It is also a way for our students to reach us. As we share enthusiasm, it becomes our common ground, the center around which a group can be built, in the classroom and beyond it. ...

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School Overview:

	St Ann's School
School Membership(s)	National Association of Independent Schools State or regional independent school association
Religious Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Grades Offered	Grades Prekindergarten - 12
County	Kings County, NY
Student Body
Total Students	1074 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(NY) School Avg.
% Students of Color	n/a	22%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 60 students
	Kind - 61 students
	Grade 1 - 78 students
	Grade 2 - 80 students
	Grade 3 - 80 students
	Grade 4 - 75 students
	Grade 5 - 76 students
	Grade 6 - 79 students
	Grade 7 - 82 students
	Grade 8 - 80 students
	Grade 9 - 82 students
	Grade 10 - 85 students
	Grade 11 - 75 students
	Grade 12 - 81 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	187 teachers
	This School	(NY) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:5	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	165 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	8 hours	6 hours

School Notes:

Saint Ann’s School is not unusual in wanting to prepare children creatively and efficiently in the academic disciplines and the arts, and surely not unique in wanting students who demonstrate amply the necessary aptitude and motivation. What is out of the ordinary, we think, is our habit of giving students freedom to achieve, to value learning more than propriety, to trust the unadorned pleasures of learning, unassisted by point scores, prizes, rankings, and punishments. At Saint Ann’s it is hard to distinguish curriculum from community. A curriculum is traditionally thought of as a sequence of concepts and details, assumed to be related to each other, and thought to be learnable in a given period. For us, however, the curriculum is pervasive: a vehicle for learning skills as well as facts; the medium of our friendship with children; a source of humor and poetry; a focus for activities across the disciplines and for formalisms from art to algebra. It is also a way for our students to reach us. As we share enthusiasm, it becomes our common ground, the center around which a group can be built, in the classroom and beyond it.
Profile last updated: 03/05/2009

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School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (11201)	School Zip (11201)	(NY) State Average
Population (Approximate)	47,746 people	18,975,234 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	61%	32%
Population Average Age	36 years old	35 years old
Average Household size	1.9 persons	2.5 persons
Median Household Income	$56,293	$44,151
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	3.3 rooms	4.4 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	70 years old	58 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	36% / 64%	41% / 59%