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Academic Support

The Academic Support program provides oversight of a student’s academic progress and offers individualized tutoring in study skills, organization, and time management. Specific content area support (e.g., math, language, science) is also provided for some students as needs arise.

Academic Support staff members monitor students' academic progress. Tutoring support structures are put in place based on a student’s previously documented academic needs as well as academic needs that emerge during the year. First year students with documented academic needs are enrolled in the Academic Support program so they may receive services from the beginning of the school year.

Academic Support requires an enrollment contract addendum for an annual fee of $4,500. Students whose academic needs are identified after the school year has begun will be enrolled in the program and fees will be prorated by semester. Students who return to Saint James after their first year are re-enrolled or released from the program based on recommendations of the Director of Academic Support and the Associate Headmaster.

The program provides oversight of a student’s academic progress and offers individualized tutoring in study skills, organization, and time management. Specific content area support (e.g., math, language, science) is also provided for some students as needs arise.

International Student Support

Most first-year international students for whom English is not their primary language are enrolled in the International Student Support (ISS) program. ISS requires an enrollment contract addendum that reflects an annual fee ($9,000). International students who return to Saint James after their first year are re-enrolled or released from the program based on recommendations of the Director of International Student Support.

All international students are fully mainstreamed into English, history, science, and mathematics classes; the primary focus of ISS is academic skills support for these classes. Strategies for efficient text reading, reading comprehension, vocabulary, test-taking, expository writing, and research skills form the basis of the weekly work. This individualized support is not graded, and no academic credit is earned.