Community Service
Our student-led community service program anchors our commitment to develop habits of service.
We believe students should serve others because they want to, not because they have to. All student service work is voluntary, yet more than 70 percent of our students engage.
Service Opportunities
You have numerous opportunities to serve on local, regional, national, or international levels while at St. Andrew's. You can engage in weekly off-campus service work during the two-hour Wednesday lunch block. You may do so as an individual, as part of a campus team or organization, as a dorm, as a grade, and occasionally, as a school. All-school service projects are selected and directed by a student committee and supervised by faculty.
How You Can Serve at St. Andrew’s
- Mentor or tutor local elementary school students
- Give swim lessons to children with disabilities in the Genereaux Aquatic Center
- Get to know a senior citizen through weekly visits to a local senior center
- Join a weekly Friday night trip to bring dinner to a homeless shelter in Wilmington, where you'll serve and eat dinner with residents
- Volunteer for Delaware Special Olympics events, held on and off-campus
- Build local Habitat for Humanity homes
- Serve meals at a local soup kitchen
- Ring a bell for the Salvation Army during the holidays
- Help organize on-campus blood drives, clothing drives, food drives, and fundraisers
- Clean up trash on local roadways
Campus Stewardship
Students do daily work to care for the school's buildings, rooms, and equipment—a practice rooted in our Episcopal identity, where tending to the spaces we share is understood as an act of gratitude, not just upkeep. Each student is assigned a daily job in a certain area of the school, the majority of which are on dorm. Each job takes five to ten minutes, and all are rotated regularly. Responsibilities include taking out dorm trash and recycling; vacuuming; and cleaning common rooms and kitchen areas.
All members of the school community are expected to participate in the ongoing care of buildings, common spaces, and grounds. To this end, students and adults gather several times a year for major campus clean-up projects—a shared responsibility that echoes the Episcopal tradition of stewardship, in which caring for the spaces we're given is part of caring for one another.
The school also expects each student to maintain his or her room in an orderly fashion; dorm faculty inspect rooms each morning.