Episcopal schools exist not only to educate, but to demonstrate and proclaim the unique worth and beauty of all human beings as creations of a loving, empowering God.

Episcopal schools are created to be communities that honor, celebrate, and worship God as the center of life while valuing faith and reason as a way to true understanding.  Parish day schools, like St. Stephen's, were founded to offer educational excellence in a context of Christian mission and social responsibility.  The elements that direct the faculty, staff, parents, and students of St. Stephen's, our Mission Statement, School Creed, and Core Values, echo the tenets of Episcopal Identity.  These principals are woven into the School's overall life, helping to ensure a strong foundation of Christian love that guides and challenges all students to build lives of genuine meaning, purpose, and service. 

St. Stephen’s is the largest and most diverse ministry of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

The school holds one chapel services each week as a way to honor its Episcopal identity and school founders.  The school sees chapel as a teaching & learning opportunity in which students are at the center of the experience and are guided by the Rector of St Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Students in 6th through 8th grade also attend a weekly Religious Education class.  In the tradition of Episcopal Schools, the school is unapologetically Episcopal through teaching and modeling Anglican rituals, open-mindedness, tolerance, peaceful resolution, appreciation of spiritual difference, and understanding of the world community.