ATTRIBUTES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PRIMARY DIVISION (103 students):

• Newly renovated playground with artificial turf surface. 
• Parents invited to join their children at chapel every Friday. 
• Laptop lab for computer instruction.
• Every student receives instruction in art, music, divinity, science, computers, library instruction, and physical education.
• Picture of every student on the primary campus lines the hallways.
• Students are Bucket Fillers…of kindness, love, good deeds. 
• Parents invited into classrooms to read to the students. 

LOWER DIVISION (220 students):

• New laptop lab for computer instruction. 
• Form V (3^rd grade) tied for 1^st in the nation (out of 593 school teams) in a Word Master’s Challenge competition in 2009 – 2010. 
• Form VI (4^th grade) placed 2^nd in the nation in a WordMaster’s Challenge competition in 2008 – 2009. 
• Every student receives instruction in art, music, divinity, computers, library instruction, and physical education.
• Form VI and III form reading partners and read together every Friday for 40 minutes. 
• 2008 – 2009 Form VI (grade 4) ERB Achievement Test Results:

a.       Verbal Reasoning -                       87%ile

b.      Writing Concepts & Skills -          91%ile

c.       Quantitative Reasoning -              85%ile

MIDDLE DIVISION (219 students):

• 2008 – 2009 Form X (grade 8) ERB Achievement Test Results:

1. Verbal Reasoning -                 96%ile
2. Writing Concepts & Skills -    96%ile
3. Quantitative Reasoning -        96%ile

• 78% of the 2008 – 2009 Form IX (7^th grade) qualified to take the SAT for the Duke TIP Program.
• Six students received state recognition for SAT scores.
• One student received national recognition for SAT scores.
• SJE student placed 7^th in the state in the Geography Bee.
• 2008 – 2009 Latin team took 1^st in the Regional Latin Forum for the 5^th year in a row.
• 2008 – 2009 Latin team took 2^nd in the Sate Latin Forum.
• Form VII (5^th grade) placed 6^th in the nation in a WordMaster’s Challenge competition in 2008 – 2009. 
• Form IX (7^th grade) placed 2^nd in the nation in a WordMaster’s Challenge competition in 2008 – 2009.
• A spring musical is professionally produced every spring by the middle division students. 
• The middle division has a "Green Team” which not only recycles on their campus, but also participates yearly in the Mayor’s River Clean-up program. 
• Due to the "no cut” philosophy in athletics, 93% of all middle school students participate on one or more sports’ team each year.
• St. John’s athletic teams have won 21 league championships in the last seven years.   
•  With fair play and team work, the athletic teams win many league and tournament championships; five last year alone. 

ALL SCHOOL (542 students):

• Active Parents’ Club – raises over $200,000 for the School each year, has 60 committees to run events throughout the year such as:
• Homeroom parents
• Primary and lower division greeters
• Field Day
• Fundraisers
• Newly Formed Dads’ Club.
• All school "Service Day” sponsored by the Dads’ Club on March 12, 2010
• All students, on all three campuses, attend chapel every day.
• Students participate with the Church youth in the fund raising program "Mission Possible” to support various mission trips and our sister school in Uganda, Kamaiba Primary School. 
• Enrollment for 2009 – 2010 school year has grown by 28 students over last year’s enrollment.
• 94% of all students at SJE in 2008 – 2009 re-enrolled for 2009 – 2010.
• FCIS re-enrollment average was 80%
• 2008 – 2009 school-wide (307 students in grades 3 through 8) ERB Achievement Test Results:

4. Verbal Reasoning -                 91%ile
5. Writing Concepts & Skills -    90%ile
6. Quantitative Reasoning -        88%ile

• SMARTBoards and/or Elmos in every classroom school-wide.
• 100% of our graduates have been accepted in the local high school of their first choice for the last five years. 
• Most of the high school juniors in the country take the PSAT in October of every year as part of the National Merit Scholarship Qualification Test Program (NMSQT).
• Approximately 16,000 of these students are named National Merit Semi-Finalists.
• This year, 53 semi-finalists are from Hillsborough County, the most from any county in the state of Florida.
• Seven (7) of those 53 in Hillsborough County of the 16,000 in the country are from St. John’s.
• THREE AGE-APPROPRIATE SETTINGS, ONE TEN YEAR UNRIVALED EXPERIENCE!