The Stony Brook School

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The Stony Brook School is an independent college preparatory school (grades 7-12) that exists to challenge young men and women to know Jesus Christ as Lord, to love others as themselves, and to grow in knowledge and skill, in order that they may serve the world through their character and leadership.
Founded in 1922 with the motto "Character Before Career," The Stony Brook School seeks to educate students in matters of the mind, body, and heart. Students are challenged to become leaders with integrity, and virtue character development is considered an essential component of the educational process. While students are presented with the gospel of Jesus Christ, they are free to maintain their personal spiritual beliefs.
For over 90 years, The Stony Brook School has been putting character before career. This is another way of acknowledging that we are human beings—and not human doings. We recognize that a career is essential. Our graduates regularly gain acceptance to the most selective colleges and universities globally, and they are significantly impacting their communities through their giftedness. That said, we believe that our achievements only speak to one facet of who we are.
Stony Brook's education is designed to help students flourish, which means to be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence. We believe this flourishing comes through careful attention to character, which a wise person once defined as "who you are when no one is looking." At The Stony Brook School, we are not afraid to ask our students big questions: Who are you? What do you care about most? What is your purpose in this world? We believe the answers to these questions help shape the character and give students the confidence to become all they were designed to be.
In short, we give our students space, the opportunity, and the support to explore life's big questions while also helping them fulfill the demands of their rigorous academic course of study. We can do this only because of the quality and depth of our faculty.
Our faculty comprises master teachers, coaches, and mentors. Their experience is routinely sought after by other schools to train their teachers on how to teach. In addition to their degrees and expertise, what is most compelling about our teachers is the extent to which they care for their students. SBS teachers make themselves available to their students above and beyond the school day's constraints and are dedicated to their students' success. They are mentors, role models, and the kind of people who genuinely want to spend time with young adults.
The Stony Brook School offers a genuinely outstanding college preparatory education, unparalleled among boarding and day schools in the northeastern United States. To learn more about the distinct features that set us apart, we encourage you to spend some time browsing this site. You will find information about our commitment to academic excellence, our mission, our ideal location, our close-knit, our excellent college placement record, diverse community...and much more.
This is not to say that we are not committed to a high standard of excellence in classroom teaching—quite the opposite. Instead, our rich and textured classroom learning experiences serve as a jumping-off point in our "whole student" approach to education. Because we are a boarding school, our students can engage in various subject matters with their teachers in diverse environments and circumstances. It is not at all unusual to see a student and her teacher lingering for a conversation about that day's teaching or tomorrow's test as we filter out of the dining hall after a meal or in a dorm lounge once the day is done. Our classes regularly travel together to off-campus events and cultural destinations that add new layers of nuance and enrichment to in-class lectures and discussions. Lessons learned in our arts, and athletics programs are brought back to our academic buildings, and vice versa. Frequent chapel services allow our students to digest and reflect upon the week's teaching in a context of spiritual investigation and restoration.
The everyday life of a typical middle school or high school student has its ups and downs. However, there is one constant worth noting here at The Stony Brook School—and that is the unparalleled level of personal attention each student receives from our outstanding faculty. Because we are a boarding school, each of our teachers lives either in a dorm or in a house surrounding our 55-acre campus. This arrangement means that teaching here is more than just a job; it truly is a way of life. And our students are not just coming to school. They are coming to a home away from home.

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