This year our festival will be held on the site of our future location,

Loyola Square

2350 Gaylord St.

Denver, Colorado 80205

Also, St. Elizabeth’s School and the Beanstalk Foundation teamed up to try to raise money for our strings program. Click here to watch our progress and to donate to the strings program.

Denver, Colorado – March 14, 2012 – St. Elizabeth’s School, one of only two Episcopal schools in Colorado, announced that it is moving from its current location on the Clayton Early Learning Campus to the former Loyola Grade School building located at 2350 Gaylord Street on the west end of City Park.  This announcement comes on the heels of the news that the school’s Board of Trustees reached a unanimous decision in January to add a middle school to its existing K-5 elementary school, a decision met enthusiastically by its current and prospective families.  The move to Loyola will be completed in time for the 2012-13 school year.

Head of School, Walter McCoy, states, “We are excited for the opportunities this move provides for our current and future families as we advance to fifth grade next year and add one grade at a time.  The Loyola building is strategically located to serve our mission and has nine large classrooms and spaces to accommodate physical education, chapel, music, art, faith studies, and Spanish classes and houses a large library.  We are delighted to partner with the St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church to continue our mission of offering excellent academic opportunities to an inclusively enrolled community.”  Walt said that this move actually brings us back, in some sense, to our beginnings. “Our original major financial support for St. Elizabeth’s came from a Jesuit institution, The Nativity Network of Schools, through a generous donation by the Cassin Foundation.  After a 2006 merger, the Nativity-Miguel Network settled on solely middle- school education, which removed SES from qualification since it started with kindergarten.  The current Nativity-Miguel Network includes both Catholic and Episcopal schools in an urban faith-based collaboration.”

Fr. Tom Cwik, S.J., Pastor of the Jesuit church states, “We are very excited to welcome St. Elizabeth’s School.  Providing high quality, faith-based education has always been an important ministry of St. Ignatius Loyola parish and the Jesuits.  Collaboration with others in ministry has increasingly become a focus of discussion in Jesuit circles.  This partnership with St. Elizabeth’s allows for resurrection of a traditional parish ministry and for greater ecumenical collaboration.” 

St Elizabeth’s School opened in 2007 with one small kindergarten class and has grown steadily.  In 2010 SES was recognized by a 5280 Magazine panel of experts as one of Denver’s “Best Private Elementary Schools.”  The school provides an unparalleled educational environment that fosters academic, social, artistic, and spiritual growth for an inclusive and diverse school community.  Essential to this policy is the Family Commitment Plan, which is based upon a sliding-scale tuition system that eliminates the categories of “scholarship” or “financial aid” and is designed to determine each student’s tuition according to the principle that a family’s financial investment should be equitable to its financial resources.

For more information, call 303-322-4209, visit www.stelizabethsdenver.org, or contact:

Walter McCoy
Head of School
3605 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205
wmccoy@stelizabethsdenver.org

For questions about admissions, contact:

Diane Grove
Admissions Coordinator
dgrove@stelizabethsdenver.org

We have two location options on the table.
· Clayton executives would like for us to remain in our current facilities, which can accommodate kindergarten – fifth grades. This scenario would allow us to add fifth grade next year in the north section of the 3601 building (East Wing), which would give us a year to find a site to accommodate a middle school or a K-8 building.

· The second option would be to move to the St Ignatius Loyola Church building, formerly the Loyola Grade School, this summer, pending an acceptable lease proposal from the Catholic Archdiocese. This facility would accommodate kindergarten – eighth grades as it stands. We would continue to add a grade each year.

We are awaiting formal lease proposals from each party and hope to have a decision soon.

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