Unique Learning Opportunities

Discover the difference of a Saint Edward's education.

With intentionally small class sizes and a close-knit community, every student benefits from personalized, high-impact learning. Our waterfront campus further extends the classroom, turning the natural environment into a dynamic setting for exploration and discovery.

Across every grade, our programs are designed to turn curiosity into action and classroom lessons into meaningful experiences that shape who your child becomes.

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Lower School

Swim Instruction

Beginning in kindergarten and continuing through eighth grade, swimming instruction builds essential water-safety skills and confidence while helping students develop coordination, strength and overall physical fitness. Nestled between the Indian River Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean, our campus makes water safety especially meaningful for our students.

Innovation Lab

In the Innovation Lab, students tackle hands-on design challenges that blend technology, creativity and critical thinking while gaining early experience with coding, robotics, digital design and foundational keyboarding skills across grades 2–5. Collaboration, communication and perseverance are emphasized as students learn to experiment and grow from mistakes.

Executive Functioning

In Executive Functioning class, fourth and fifth grade students strengthen the skills needed to plan, organize and manage their time by setting goals, following multi-step directions and completing tasks independently. Learners build focus, self-regulation, flexible thinking and working memory as they problem-solve, adapt strategies and persist through real-world challenges.

Science Labs

Students begin learning basic lab procedures early in the Lower School with authentic life science lab experiences beginning in PK. Students continue to develop their lab skillsets at every grade level until they are completing independent science labs in fourth and fifth grade. The smallest Pirates learn to dissect owl pellets; older children investigate and analyze our lagoon in-depth, from plankton to mammals.

Spanish

Studies indicate that there are clear cognitive advantages to learning a second language at an early age. Children who learn a second language demonstrate greater linguistic and cognitive strengths across all subject areas. Early bilingual language learning boosts problem-solving, critical thinking and listening skills, in addition to improving memory and concentration. Students at SES begin learning Spanish in Little Pirates (PK3).

Targeted Technology

Technology is used thoughtfully and purposefully to enhance learning. Lower school students use iPads strategically for spelling practice, novel comprehension, math exercises, video production, robotics programming, engineering design, communication, peer collaboration and creative demonstrations of learning. By balancing meaningful technology use with active, engaging classroom experiences, students develop essential digital skills while maintaining a healthy approach to screen time.

Middle School

Challenge Trips

Each Middle School grade participates in a developmentally specific Challenge Trip that incorporates team building, personal challenges, communication development and class bonding in a fun, memorable outdoor experience. Each year Middle School students look forward to a new adventure and another opportunity to make connections with their classmates.

The Anchor Program

The Middle School Anchor Program is where community and curiosity meet. By providing a dedicated space for students to step back from the busy middle school schedule, Anchor 'steadies' them in the here and now. Through the program's various club offerings that convene during the school day, students can connect, build skills and make lasting memories.

ME Projects: Personal Growth Perspective

Eighth-grade students reflect on their middle school experience when they prepare and present ME Projects each spring. After a year of self-discovery, they explore how they have grown in four key areas: physically, academically, socially and spiritually. The result is a visual representation of their findings that is presented to their peers, teachers and family members.

Competitive Athletics

Middle school students benefit from robust athletic offerings that promote teamwork, discipline and school pride while giving them meaningful opportunities to compete with local schools. With 20 competitive and intramural teams for boys and girls in grades 6–8, students can participate across a wide range of sports including Lacrosse, Golf, Football, Cheer, Track & Field and more. Visit our Athletics page to learn more!

Dynamic Project-Based Learning

Middle school students engage in immersive capstone projects that build research skills, critical thinking, creativity, confidence and communication skills essential for future success. In sixth grade, the Global Expedition Project challenges students to research a country in depth, culminating in a multimedia presentation, diorama and tri-fold display showcased at a judged exhibition. In seventh grade, students build on this foundation through Night of the Notables, advancing their research and presentation skills as they study an influential historical figure and present their findings in character.

Science: Discovery and Exploration

Middle school science builds on skills started in the lower school and spans the breadth of disciplines, beginning with field biology and progressing to chemistry, astronomy and physics. This program culminates with engineering and design as they learn to build and test rockets. Science classrooms feature labs filled with flora, fauna and physics experiments that extend learning to the next level.

Upper School

Advocacy Groups

At the beginning of freshman year, students are assigned an Advocacy group and a faculty advocate who supports, mentors and challenges them over the following four years of high school. Each Advocacy group creates special bonds through planned activities, impromptu discussions, and shared experiences. Advocacy groups participate in friendly competitions throughout the school year.

Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

As part of one of the area’s most dedicated college preparatory schools in Florida, Saint Edward's AP program offers exceptional students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while in high school. We offer a wide variety of AP courses to help advance motivated, high-achieving students to the next level in college and enable them to receive college credit.

Advanced Studies Program

This rigorous program is for highly motivated and intellectually curious students who wish to add independent research to an already challenging schedule of honors and AP courses. Students must formally apply to the program during the spring term of their junior year and are selected on the basis of standardized test scores (top 10%), GPA (3.5 or higher), recommendations from the college counseling department and a personal essay.

Model UN: International Diplomacy

Model United Nations is an extra-curricular activity in which students typically role-play delegates to the United Nations and simulate UN committees. Students involved in MUN travel domestically and abroad to meet and work with other students from around the world.

Science Labs in the Lagoon

The Indian River Lagoon is one of the most diverse estuaries in the world, and it sits at our back door. Upper school students work with local scientists and non-profit organizations to solve the problems of the lagoon and promote environmental stewardship.

SALT Club

The SALT Club (Student Athlete Leadership Team) brings students from all sports and grade levels together to explore leadership lessons learned through athletics and apply them on and off the field. The club fosters inclusivity, character and teamwork by creating a space where student-athletes learn from one another and grow as leaders within the Saint Edward’s community.

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How to Apply

Learn what steps are involved depending on your child's incoming grade.

Lower School

Explore how our Lower School nurtures curiosity, confidence and a love of learning from the very beginning.

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Middle School

See how our Middle School empowers students to grow academically, socially and personally during these transformative years.

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Upper School

Learn how our Upper School prepares students for college and beyond through challenging academics, leadership and meaningful experiences.