The St. Stephen’s Episcopal School campus spans across more than 370 acres of land. Close to 80% of that scenic land is undeveloped, boasting less than 20% of impervious cover. Of the impervious cover, our campus is identified in three zones: academics, student life and athletics.
The academics zone one is at the top of The Hill and includes the Chapel, the Helm Fine Arts Center and Becker Library. Zone two incorporates student life and includes our seven dorms, the Health Center, the Dining Hall and free-standing faculty housing. Our athletics facilities are included in zone three, encompassing both Clayton and the Spartan Middle School Gyms, our athletic fields, including the soccer, field hockey, football and track, baseball fields, the tennis courts, the new Still Water Foundation Aquatic Center and the ropes tower.
A number of faculty and staff live on campus across seven free standing single dwellings and in seven different multi-housing family units. Dorm parents also live in close proximity to a dozen apartment dwellings attached to various dorms.
St. Stephen’s is home to a wide variety of topography, soil types and ecological diversity. From the moisture and vegetation-rich bottom of Devil’s Canyon, to the verdant, alluvial flatland along St. Stephen’s Creek, up to the dry, scrub-covered hilltops, we are blessed with wildly different ecological worlds, all within walking distance of each other. There are nearly 12 miles of walking, hiking and mountain biking trails. 1,064 solar panels span across five campus buildings, including the Temple Dining Hall, both Clayton and the Spartan gym, Becker Library and the Roger Bowen Arts Studio.
The land means many things to many people in our community. It is a classroom, a laboratory and a place of recreation. It is a chapel and a place of quiet reflection. For many, it is home. For all of us, the land is uniquely St. Stephen’s.