Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School Celebrates Outstanding Graduates

The 69 students who make up Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School’s Class of 2014 will graduate on May 30, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Neel Performing Arts Center at the State College of Florida. Sixteen of those students are “Forever Falcons”, having attended Saint Stephen’s since prekindergarten and/or kindergarten.

“We are extremely proud of our bright, young, outstanding graduates. Each of these students has left a mark on our School, and we wish them the best as they move forward in their academic careers,” said Dr. Janet Pullen, Head of School at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School. “The graduation ceremony is a rite of passage, and at Saint Stephen’s, because our students set such high goals and so often attain them, we put great emphasis on this important closing ritual to recognize and reinforce the magnitude of their accomplishments,” she said.

A few of the notable highlights for the Class of 2014 include:

• 100% of the Class of ’14 has been accepted into a college or university.
• Sixty-two percent of graduating seniors have been offered college scholarships based on merit.
• Sixty-one percent of seniors will be attending colleges out of state, including New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
• A total of 491 college applications were submitted, and students were collectively accepted at 140 different institutions, including Princeton University, University of Oxford, Boston College, Ringling School of Art and Design and the University of Florida.
• Saint Stephen’s has also produced two national merit scholar finalists and one national merit commended scholar.
• This year, more than 330 students participated in at least one sport.

Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School is a private, independent, co-educational, college preparatory school in Bradenton, FL. Saint Stephen’s delivers world-class education, excellent extracurricular experiences and exciting programs like AP course work, the iPad initiative, a band/strings program, a global education program, K-12 daily foreign language program and our Marine Science Initiative, to name a few.     

Saint Stephen's sits on a gated, 35-acre campus, which includes a state-of-the-art athletic center that hosts the school’s athletic events including soccer, football, track and field, lacrosse, baseball, softball, tennis and cheerleading. At every level, from PK3 through grade 12, students are nurtured in small classes, encouraged and supported in their academic pursuits. Students benefit from programs and educational models that have proven successful by Saint Stephen’s students who are excelling today in colleges and universities around the world. Saint Stephen's is proud of its rich academic offerings that go hand-in-hand with a strong college counseling program, a wide variety of competitive sports teams, a creative fine arts program, and many community service learning opportunities. For more information about our school, please visit www.saintstephens.org.