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School 360
Thomas Jefferson School
About:
At TJ, the exchange of ideas becomes a way of life, and ideas are often valued more than answers. A liberal-arts approach to education is the basis for the TJ curriculum. Students immerse themselves in the fundamental college-prep areas of English, math, language, science, social studies, and art, choosing electives in certain areas as they get older, but sharing a core educational experience with peers across all grades. Students learn to think deeply and mine for knowledge and ideas, and they learn to demand that approach from themselves, their classmates, and their teachers.
Location:
St. Louis, Missouri
1946
Year Founded:
Number of Students:
80
Average Class Size:
12
Co-Ed
Gender:
Specialty Program(s):
An outstanding feature of a TJ education is the study of both classical and modern languages. Beginning with Latin in the seventh- and eighth-grades, continuing with ancient Greek in ninth and tenth, and concluding with either French or Italian during their junior and senior years, TJ graduates end up with an encompassing view of how language itself works. From the highly inflected languages of the classical world to the prepositional heavy modern languages, students at TJ grasp the ways meaning has been constructed in western languages.
