St. Jerome Institute
School Overview
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Overall Mission and Culture:
How do you know you if you are accomplishing your mission?
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Students
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Grades served:
Do you serve boys, girls or both?
Do your students wear uniforms?
Percentage of student body that is Catholic:
Do you know how many of your students, and their families, attend Mass each Sunday?
Percentage of student body considered FRL:
Faculty
Number of full-time and part-time teachers at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year:
What are the most important qualities you look for when hiring teachers?
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Which colleges and universities have two or more of your teachers graduated from, if any?
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How frequently does your school leadership team meet? How are those meetings structured?
How often are teachers observed (in the classroom) by master teachers and receive coaching?
How frequently does your faculty engage in seminars together to discuss beautiful texts, poetry, or art?
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Description of how many teachers and which programs are utilized:
Number of religious sisters or brothers on the faculty:
If any, the orders they are from:
Do you require your teachers to make a Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity to the Catholic Church?
What percentage of your faculty attend Mass every Sunday?
Curriculum & Instruction
Standardized tests utilized to track student progress:
Does the school offer AP classes?
Does the school divide students into honors and non-honors curriculum tracks in any subject?
Please describe:
Book fairs, if any, the school hosts:
Does your school have a poetry recitation and memorization canon?
In which grades do you require Latin?
Are computers (desktops, laptops or tablets) commonly used in classrooms?
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Three labels that best describe your approach to education:
Please describe your school's overall curriculum:
Please describe the role of art, music, and drama in your curriculum:
Math curriculum used:
Do you have a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Atrium program?
How much time does the school schedule set aside each day for play, recreation, and leisure?
Do your students regularly engage in seminar discussions?
School Culture & Spiritual Life
Clubs offered:
Do your students go on spiritual retreats?
What sorts of service projects do your students participate in?
How many times per week are all students required to attend Daily Mass?
How often is Confession offered at school?
Do your students receive Sacramental instruction at school?
What types of prayer do your students regularly practice while at school?
Does your school offer any faith-based after school programs, like Rosary or Adoration club?
How does your school cultivate the virtues of chastity and modesty?
Do you use a dedicated virtue formation program or incorporate virtue instruction in the school schedule?
Please describe:
Do you have sacred art in classrooms?
Do you offer parent formation opportunities?
What is your smartphone and smartwatch policy?
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Independent
2018
1800 Perry St NE, Washington, DC 20018, USA
18845
We are priced competitively; $18,845 is the tuition amount for year 2025-26.
91
Students of faculty & staff
A school's culture educates. Just as culture originally referred to the soil that brings forth life, we are also cultivated as persons and communities through the cultures that ground us. The St. Jerome Institute is a school of song, of prayer, and of feasting. We delight in competition and play. We courageously take on rigorous studies, and are dedicated to fostering a community of love and friendship. As a Socratic, seminar-based school, our culture is characterized by dialogue and wonder. Most fundamentally, as a school fully infused with the Catholic faith, we understand that the ultimate purpose of our shared work is to lead us ever closer to Christ.
We know if we are accomplishing our mission by looking at the success of our alumni. Our alumni have all been admitted to four-year colleges or universities. They are all maintaining a relationship with God and for many of them, their faith is the most important thing in life. Every alumni we've interviewed has either said that they had an extremely formative experience learning at SJI. Some have said that the quality of education they received here was unparalleled by anything they would have received elsewhere.
9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade
Both
Yes
Yes
15
We look for knowledge, humility, and the willingness to take constructive feedback and incorporate that feedback into their teaching method/style in the classroom.
60
83
The Pontifical John Paul II Institute; Thomas Aquinas College, CA; The University of Maryland, College Park; The Catholic University of America
Summer Symposium, weekly individual feedback sessions
Weekly
Monthly
Other
We have about 12 teachers each year and we use the text, "Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov, in addition to many other texts which include essays, great books, and short stories.
-2
Yes
100
CLT, Other
No
No
Yes
9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade
No
We allow the students to use computers for writing some essays, and we occasionally use laptops in the classroom if the benefit of using the technology outweighs the con of the digital medium.
Classical, Cultivation of Virtue, Liberal Arts
The curriculum aims to cultivate both a comprehensive knowledge of the order of things known to the tradition as "wisdom," and just as crucially, the love of this wisdom ("philo-sophia") without which we cannot live well. Students, then, will not be "educated" only into a series of discrete techniques or unconnected collections of facts. Rather, they will be educated, led out, into an integrated vision of reality as a whole. This vision rests on the truth that the world is "creation" and therefore a rationally ordered whole, that the human being is a creature with a natural desire for God, that this desire lies at the foundation of all human culture, and that God acts in a specific time and place and in a surprising way in the Incarnation of Christ to fulfill this desire. In a nutshell, integration is the key aspect of our school's curriculum.
Our study of art emphasizes habits of direct observation, contemplation, and imitation, which deepens a student's understanding of how beautiful things are made and how they make meaning. Students also learn interpretive techniques that reveal the intimate connections between politics, culture, religion, and historical events that give rise to art and art movements. In music, students not only learn the all fundamental elements of music, but they also habituate themselves to feel deeply for the right reasons, which is an essential step on the road to becoming great-souled. Our study of drama facilitates this same habituation toward virtue, but through the distinct lens of speech and bodily expression.
Our Math curriculum was written in-house by Edward Trudeau.
No
1 hour
Yes
Genesian Players, Songbyrds (Audition-only choir), Mock Trial, International Club, Basketball, Kickboxing, Volleyball, Ballroom Dance, Film, Pro-Life Club
Yes
Once or twice per semester, our students perform acts of service in the community. Our students help to feed the poor through cultivation of organic farms which supply the impoverished in our community. They also assist in cleaning up and setting up for events which SJI puts on for the larger community.
1
Occasionally
No
Adoration, Group prayer time prior to beginning of school day, Private prayer time, Other
We have a pro-life club which will do events in the community outside of school hours.
We require ladies and gentlemen to dress in a way that befits their dignity as human persons, created in the image and likeness of God. Our uniforms align with this principle, as do our policies on hair-styles, makeup, jewelry, accessories, etc.
No
Yes
Yes
Students check their phones in at the beginning of each day and do not receive them back again until dismissal. Smart watches are not allowed.
DC - Washington