The Pittsburgh New Church School is more concerned with the spiritual and moral fiber of our students than with their academic performance. We'd rather produce mediocre students who love their fellow man and try to be useful, than brilliant scientists and scholars who love their own intelligence, or who put their trust in riches.

But... we don't see it as an either/or tradeoff.

Instead, we think that we are endowed with rational minds precisely because our rationality is important for our spiritual welfare. A well-trained mind is the platform for a useful life. In the correct order of things, academics are, though not an end in themselves, an important means to a good end.

By conventional academic measures, we have an outstanding school. For at least the past decade, our students have tested in the top 10% of schools nationwide on the annual Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Our graduates have consistently done very well in area middle and high schools, and in college.

We have strong working relationships with the international network of New Church schools, and the General Church Office of Education, whose offices are in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. We can tap into the resources of the Pittsburgh and Mt. Oliver Intermediate Unit, calling on their specialists (e.g. reading or speech specialists) at need, and draw on extensive teaching resources and a large library of books and films.