Advisor to Student Ratio

doschicos
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:21:02 +0000

Unless is has changed, the SPS student/advisor ratio is around 5/1. Advisors are assigned by dorm and have dorm duty 1 or 2 nights per week where their charges live. Advisors may live in the dorms in apartments or in other housing on campus close by. Since there are all school morning chapels (basically school meetings 4x per week, advisors also get to lay eyes on each of their charges on those mornings as well. Seems minor but sometimes, like parental eyes, a lot can be ascertained about a student’s health and happiness from just looking at them. This is all in addition to more formal group and individual advisor meetings and meals.

from the school’s website:
"Advising
Your teachers and coaches will get to know you well, but it’s your adviser’s job more than anyone else’s to understand where you’re coming from and where you want to go – to understand you as a person unlike any other. Your adviser, a faculty member who lives in your house (your dorm), will advise only a handful of students. Advisers are never far away when you need them, maintaining an awareness of what is happening in their advisees’ lives.

Advisers are the first point of contact between parents and the School, and they are often the first adult to whom you will turn for help with any part of your life at school, but it’s important to remember that you can turn to any adult at St. Paul’s for advice about academics or life outside the classroom. Forming relationships like that is part of why St. Paul’s has remained entirely residential since its founding."