Mission & Vision

Our Vision

Our Mission

South City Community School exists to be an intentionally accessible Christian school in the City of St. Louis, to provide students a feast of ideas preparing them for their next academic endeavor.

Core Values

Place

We believe that it is good for people to have a sense of local connection. We see God’s hand in guiding each of us to a specific place at a specific time. As we engage with our families here in the south city area, we are inspired by the potential we have to strengthen the fabric of our local community together.

Beauty

We value beauty in all its forms–both in our curriculum as we study nature and the works of great artists and composers, in our classrooms, where we strive to create beauty, cleanliness, and order, and in our relationships. 

Sacrifice

First by necessity in our startup phase, and now with intentionality, we see the value of always making the most of the resources we have in hand. We continue to model this for our families and community, asking them to join us in whatever capacity they can.

Personhood

We believe in the intrinsic value, inherent dignity, and God-given worth of all children. Each child has the potential to exercise their will and multiply unique, inborn gifts. 

Renewal

We believe that in spite of many challenges, renewal will be the ultimate outcome of our efforts. Truthful proclamation, acts of restoration, and building relationships of reconciliation will have a positive, reverberating effect on our city, nation, and world.

FAITH

Christian faith is at the center of the SCCS community, informing all that we do. Motivated by our faith commitments, our faculty and staff share a desire to serve families in the City of St. Louis with beautiful education that honors all children as persons made in God’s image.

As a missional school, SCCS seeks to be an inclusive blessing to our surrounding neighborhoods. The majority of our families are Christian and we also welcome families from all faith and non-faith backgrounds.

We ask that during the enrollment process, parents familiarize themselves with our faith perspective and be positively supportive of the role that it plays in student life. SCCS students attend a short weekly chapel service, study the Bible as part of the curriculum at every grade level, and begin taking theology formally once a week in seventh and eighth grade.

South City Community School admits students of any race, gender, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and athletic and other school administered programs.