Fast Facts

• Summit School is an independent, coeducational day school serving students JrK-Grade 9.

• Founded: 1933. There are over 3,000 alumni.

• Students: Approximately 550 boys and girls in Junior Kindergarten through Grade 9. Students come from 25 zip codes. Students of color comprise 18% of the school.

• Families: Of the 409 families at Summit, 66% have dual incomes or are single heads of household.

• Teacher/Student Ratio: 1:5

• Faculty: 96

• School Hours:

Junior Kindergarten 8:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Kindergarten 8:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Grades 1-5 8:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Grades 6-9 8:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
After school sports 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Location: 28 acres in the heart of Winston-Salem. Known as the Reynolda Corridor, the tree-lined Reynolda Road is home to Wake Forest University, the Reynolda House Museum of American Art and Reynolda Gardens, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Graylyn International Conference Center, and Summit School.

• Campus: Eleven buildings, including 2 art studios, television production studio, digital media/animation studio, design studio, robotics studio, digital music studio, 5 science labs, 2 libraries, 2 dining halls, wetlands instructional pond, 4 sports fields, screening room, black box theatre, 350-seat theatre, pottery studio, photography studio, and Athletic Center which includes 3 basketball courts, a fitness facility, a dance/aerobics studio, a gymnastics studio, and a track.

• Library: 45,000 volumes

• World Languages: In Junior Kindergarten - grade 3, all students take French and Spanish. In grades 4-9 students have the opportunity to take French, Spanish, Latin, and Mandarin Chinese.

• Athletics: The program includes daily physical education class for grades 1-9 as well as a variety of intramural and interscholastic team sports. Summit is a member of the Central Carolina Athletic Conference.

• Financial Assistance: 16% of the student body receives need-based tuition grants. The school awarded $878,000 in financial aid for the 2009-2010 school year.

• Afterschool Program: Available daily until 5:45 pm.

• Summer Programming: Six weeks of summer programming for students from age 4 through 9th grade. Course topics include sports, arts, and academics.

• Invested Reserves: Approximately $14 million (9/09)

• Governance: Independent schools are distinct from other private schools in that they are independently governed by a board of trustees, and they do not depend on church funds as parochial schools do or on tax dollars as public schools do. Tuition and fees cover 88% of the cost of educating a student at Summit. The remaining amount is provided through annual fund-raising and income from the endowment.

• Accreditation: Southern Association of Independent Schools and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.