St. Andrew's Firsts
	St. Andrew's Episcopal School was the first secondary school in Mississippi to:   Require summer reading Offer Advanced Placement courses Require Service Learning for graduation Offer the Princeton University-developed Peer Leadership course Be awarded a Cum Laude Society, the secondary school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa Field a soccer team and a lacrosse team Offer a Japanese exchange program Have an on-campus observatory Have a wireless campus Be invited to submit nominees for the prestigious Morehead- Cain Scholarship Earn a Chair of Membership in Emory University’s Barkley Forum for High School Speech and Debate Receive a $2 million scholarship endowment from the Malone Family Foundation

	St. Andrew's Facts
	15% of the Class of 2011 (13 students) are National Merit Semifinalists, the highest percentage of any school in the state. 23% of the Class of 2010 were recognized as National Merit Finalists, National Achievement Finalists, and Commended Students. The average ACT for the Class of 2010 was 28.6. The middle 50% of ACT scores for this class was 27-31. The average SAT for the Class of 2010 was 1924. The middle 50% of SAT scores for this class was 1770-2100. 33 of 36 of Mississippi's AP State Scholars have been St. Andrew’s students. 59% of all the students who took an AP Exam in the spring of 2010 qualified as AP Scholars (globally, the number is closer to 18%). St. Andrew’s continues to lead the state in the number and percentage of AP Scholars and AP National Scholars. Each year, the U.S. Department of Education recognizes one academically outstanding young man and one academically outstanding young woman as Presidential Scholars. In 2010, 2009, and 2008, St. Andrew’s seniors were name Presidential Scholars by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2008, the department for the only time in Mississippi history named both Presidential Scholars from the same school. In 2010, after its first year competing in 3A play, St. Andrew's Episcopal School won The Clarion-Ledger's All Sports Award for that class. St. Andrew's also was able to break into the top 5 schools statewide, regardless of class. This is the 16th time in the last 19 years St. Andrew's has won this award. The St. Andrew’s Upper School band has received superior ratings at the State Band Festival for 14 consecutive years. St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi and one of only 25 schools nationwide to receive a $2 million Malone Family Foundation grant to create scholarships for academically gifted students with financial need. The 2009-2010 Annual Fund campaign raised more than $460,000. The St. Andrew’s Touchstone Endowment stands at more than $8 million. In 2007, a St. Andrew’s graduate became the first student in Mississippi history to receive the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship Award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A St. Andrew’s student won the 2007 National Student-Athlete Scholars Award. St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi with a Chair of Membership in Emory University’s Barkley Forum for Speech and Debate. Worth magazine named St. Andrew’s one of the top 100 feeder schools for the Ivy League. St. Andrew’s is the only school in Mississippi to earn this distinction. St. Andrew’s 2010 College Fair brought representatives from 65 four-year colleges and universities nationwide to the St. Andrew’s.