Trinity Episcopal School

MISSION

Trinity Episcopal School's mission is to build confident and resilient upstanders on a foundation of academic excellence, moral responsibility, and faith to make a positive difference in the world.

PORTRAIT OF THE GRADUATE

A Trinity graduate is:

• an empathetic upstander who accepts the responsibility for improving life within the school, the larger community, and the world.
• a reflective person who has the capacity for solemnity and a set of guiding principles stemming from daily chapel.
• an ardent questioner who sees, thinks, and wonders about the world around him.
• a fluent communicator whose voice is clear not only in spoken and written language but also in the fine and performing arts.
• a collaborative learner who seeks to discover, consider, and respect multiple viewpoints.

HISTORY

Trinity Episcopal School has its beginnings in Miss Edith Aiken's The Little School for Little Children, founded in 1917.  Classes were conducted at her family home, Warwick Manor, located at 1223 Second Street in the Garden District.  Miss Aiken "believed in the goodness of people, the humanity of people, the godliness of people.  She was a living embodiment of these ideals.  Her students responded to her idealism and to her faith".

In 1958, Miss Aiken contacted Canon Turner at Trinity Church to suggest transferring her Little School to Trinity, which was four blocks away.  Trinity Episcopal School opened its doors in 1960. Today, Trinity is a co-educational, Prekindergarten through Eighth Grade school of 384 students. The campus is located in the Garden District of New Orleans, encompassing four city-blocks in a residential neighborhood offering a pleasant and stimulating learning environment for its students and faculty. Trinity Episcopal School continues in the tradition of both Miss Aiken and that of Trinity Episcopal Church, which since its founding in 1847 has maintained a commitment to the educational and civic life of New Orleans.

OUR SCHOOL PRAYER

O God, our heavenly father; who has given us your son Jesus Christ to be our friend and elder brother, grant that we may continue in his friendship and do such things as will please Him. Bless us in our work and in our play. Make us gentle, generous, truthful, kind, and brave. Keep us in purity of heart, and let the life of our school go on from strength to strength and have its place and meaning in your Kingdom.  All of this we ask through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

OUR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MISSION STATEMENT 

As a ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church, Trinity School's ethos is to respect the dignity of every human being and to ensure that all people who serve and will be well-served by the programs of our School are welcome in our community regardless of race, religion, background, gender or sexual identity.

We believe that a learning environment that includes a wide diversity of viewpoints consistent with the School's mission is essential to a complete educational experience. It is part of Trinity’s mission to actively build and support an inclusive environment in which all feel they are valued members of our community.