St. Paul's School (Maryland)

St. Paul’s School is an Episcopal, coed, private school located in Brooklandville, Maryland. It is composed of the Pre and Lower School, St. Paul’s School for Boys, and St. Paul's School for Girls. The school occupies a 120-acre (0.49 km2) rural campus in the Green Spring Valley Historic District, about ten miles (16 km) north of the city of Baltimore in suburban Baltimore County.

St. Paul's School
Address
11152 Falls Rd

Brooklandville
,
Baltimore County
,
Maryland

United States
Information
TypePrivate, Day
Motto"Veritas et Virtus"
(Truth and Virtue)
Religious affiliation(s)Episcopal[1]
EstablishedFebruary 1849 (1849-02)
Sister schoolSt. Paul's School for Girls (reestablished 1959)
St. Paul's Pre and Lower School (coed, six week through grade 4)
NCES School ID00579506[1]
HeadmasterEdward M. Trusty, Jr. (interim)[2]
Faculty108.6 (FTE)[1]
Grades5–12
GenderCoed
Enrollment762 (2018)[1]
Student to teacher ratio7:1[1]
CampusLarge suburban, (since 1952)
64 acres (260,000 m2)
Color(s)Blue   and Gold  
Athletics conferenceMaryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA)
Mascot"The Crusader"
Teams"The Crusaders" (athletic)
RivalBoys' Latin School of Maryland
NewspaperThe Monitor
Websitewww.stpaulsschool.org

St. Paul's shares a campus with St. Paul's Pre and Lower School (coed, six weeks through grade 4) and with St. Paul's School for Girls (reestablished in 1959 after a 19th-century predecessor became defunct). In July 2018, the schools unified under the umbrella of The St. Paul's Schools, with a single board of trustees and one president, but each school retains its individual traditions and its gender-specific programs.

St. Paul's was founded in February 1849 at Old St. Paul's Parish in Baltimore City by the Reverend William Edward Wyatt, rector. Throughout its history, St. Paul's has moved its campus five times, finally residing at the current grounds in 1952. The focal point building on the Brooklandville campus is "Brooklandwood," a mansion built in 1793 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Maryland, the wealthiest man in America at the time, and a devout Roman Catholic. The building was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1972.[3]

Chapin Hall for middle-school boys

Academics
The Chapel in 1898

At the time of the school's founding in the mid nineteenth century, boys studied Greek, Latin, and math. The practice of church music was also given high priority, starting with the creation of the Men and Boys’ Choir of Old St. Paul's Church in 1873.

Today St. Paul's offers a college-preparatory curriculum for students in the Upper School (grades 9-12). The school offers the IB Diploma Program. St. Paul's also offers courses in theater, concert chorale, digital arts, and visual arts, many of which are cross-registered with the neighboring St. Paul's School for Girls. Boys from St. Paul's School also have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement courses at the girls' school.

Athletics
Middleton Athletic Center, St. Paul's

St. Paul's places a strong emphasis on athletics. Despite the school's small class sizes of roughly 70 students per class year, the school supports varsity teams in football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, wrestling, basketball, ice hockey, squash, tennis, crew, golf, baseball and lacrosse.

Varsity Lacrosse

Since the start of varsity lacrosse interscholastic competition at St. Paul's in 1933, the Crusaders have won 25 titles in the old Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) followed by the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) — more than any other team in the conference. Most recently, St. Paul's defeated longtime rival Boys' Latin School of Maryland by a score of 17-7 in the 2010 MIAA Conference Championship game at Towson University's sports facility Johnny Unitas Stadium. St. Paul's has produced twelve C. Markland Kelly Award winners, which honors the top scholastic player in the state of Maryland each year. St. Paul's has also produced 22 high school All-Americans and 21 graduates in the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame (next to Johns Hopkins University), in addition to producing more college All-Americans than any other program in the country.

St. Paul's School athletics field

St. Paul's claimed its first lacrosse title in the old Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) public/private schools league in 1940 under Lacrosse Hall of Fame head coach Howdy Myers. St. Paul's would dominate the next two decades in the MSA winning the title 14 times. During this stretch, many college programs would schedule scrimmages against St. Paul's in the early spring. In 1947, St. Paul's beat Princeton University twice, the first coming in a preseason scrimmage in Princeton, New Jersey, and the second a scheduled game at Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Field. During this period, St. Paul's posted five undefeated seasons, four under Howdy Myers and another in 1951 while Jim Adams was the head coach. The 1969 Crusader team, coached by George Mitchell, went undefeated and is considered one of the best. The 1992 St. Paul's team also went undefeated, winning a MSA championship under coach Mitch Whiteley. In 2010, St. Paul's won the conference championship, the 25th in school history, under head coach Rick Brocato.

Varsity Football

Since varsity football began early at St.Paul's in 1936, the Crusaders have won 20 championships. Mitch Tullai former varsity football coach coached at St. Paul's from 1953-1993. Tullai coached for 40 years and won 11 Championships, including 6 MSA C-Conference Championships, and 5 Tri-County Championships.

Varsity Basketball

Inaugural season for Varsity Basketball was 1935 and have on a total of 16 championships with 13 total coaches. Won championships in the MSA "B" Conference, Baltimore Interacademic League Champions, (IAC), MSA “C”, MSA “A” Conference, MIAA B Conference Most recent championship was in 2016-2017. Howdy Myers won the first championship in 1938-39 in the MSA B conference.

Varsity Golf

The Varsity Golf team at St. Paul's School currently holds 16 MIAA or MSA championship titles, 8 stroke-play championship titles, 8 individual champions, and 11 All Metro Players. The team's home course is the West Course at Baltimore Country Club. The head coach is Eric Nordstrom with the head emeritus being Rick Collins.

Traditions
Boys’ School of St. Paul's Parish

Since 1935, the St. Paul's Honor Council has been run by a group of upperclassmen who are elected by the student body. The council upholds the school's honor code and the principles of the school motto, Veritas et Virtus, truth and virtue.

Each year, the St. Paul's community returns to the site of its founding at Old St. Paul's Parish in downtown Baltimore for the annual Lessons and Carols celebrations, a tradition that originated in the Anglican community. Students from all years participate in the day-long festivities.

The first alumni association was founded in 1894. Today, St. Paul's has an active alumni membership of over 2,500. Each year, the alumni association plays host to a number of events that bring alums back to campus, such as the bull roast dinner, which is an annual highpoint.

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for St. Paul's School". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  2. "Interim Head of School". www.stpaulsmd.org. The St. Paul's Schools. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  4. http://www.makinghistory.upenn.edu/node/536
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-07-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  8. "St. Paul's School (Baltimore, MD): Alumni Newsletter". Retrieved 1 June 2018.

Further reading
  • Hein, David. "The Founding of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (1986): 149-59.
  • Hein, David. "Christianity and Honor." The Living Church, August 18, 2013, pp. 8–10.
  • Otterbein, Angelo F. We Have Kept the Faith : The First 150 Years of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, 1849-1999. Brooklandville, Md.: St. Paul's School, 1999.

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