Welcome to St. John's School.  By helping our students build strong academic and personal foundations, we prepare them for success in Tampa's finest private and public high school programs on their way to superior colleges and universities.  Educational experts will tell you that the lower and middle school years have a more important, formative, and enduring impact on students than all the rest of their formal education, and a St. John's education is one of the best ways to make sure they are ready for the future.

In addition to our classrooms and common spaces, St. John's School has special facilities which benefit our students greatly. Most important are the school's extensive libraries and state-of-the-art computer laboratories, as well as a beautiful, historic church adjacent to the Lower Division campus, and a consecrated Middle Division Chapel.

 

Chapel

St. John's School is an outreach of the church and, as such, students attend chapel daily. Lower Division students attend in St. John's Church and Middle Division students in Price Memorial Chapel. Episcopal worship holds the central place in the School's life and sense of community. This daily experience provides a calming and spiritual focus for students and teachers alike, emphasizing the common values of our school. The objective is for its graduates to have a guiding spiritual and ethical commitment throughout their lives.

Libraries

The Lower and Middle School libraries are used daily as core teaching resources. Enrollment at St. John's is 585 students, and the libraries contain over 12,000 volumes;  kept current by the annual removal of outdated books and the addition of new books through purchases and gifts. The computerized cataloguing and retrieval systems maintain an encyclopedic subject index. Students use this system to find material they need. Beginning in Form V, students are trained by the librarian to use the system independently.

Our Lower and Middle Division computer laboratories allow students to learn how to utilize computers through software applications designed ultimately to tie into their daily studies. Students in Form VI - X learn to use the computer as a research and presentation tool. Computer-produced writing assignments are increasingly expected from students beginning with Form VII.