St. Bernard’s offers able young boys of diverse backgrounds an exceptionally thorough, rigorous, and enjoyable introduction to learning and community life. We wish to inspire boys to value hard work and fair play, to develop confidence, consideration for others, and a sense of citizenship, and to have fun while doing these things.
Boys
A good heart is as valuable as a well-stocked, well-trained head.
Signature Programs
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Leadership Opportunities
St. Bernard’s boys are given many opportunities to lead. As early as Middle School, boys may be voted captains of their intramural teams or representatives to Student Council, which meets with the headmaster every other week. -
Community Service
Service learning projects range from delivering food with City Meals on Wheels to painting public schools with Publicolor and raising money for the Audubon Society through the annual third grade bird-a-thon. -
Assembly
Every Friday morning, just after 8:30, all students and members of the faculty and staff meet for assembly in the small gymnasium on the first floor. We hear announcements, usually from the boys. -
Public Speaking
Every boy from first grade upward will set foot on the stage at least once a year and perform for his fellow students. Boys have many opportunities to speak at St. Bernard’s: class play assemblies, presentations in class, recitations, and athletics reports for assembly. -
Shakespeare Play
The eighth grade has performed a play by William Shakespeare since 1910. The Shakespeare play is one of the most cherished of St. Bernard’s traditions. It is a group effort, with each boy contributing to its success. -
Class Trips
A St. Bernard’s education also offers boys in all grades many opportunities to learn about the world beyond 98th Street. Our teachers plan trips to places here in New York and much farther afield. -
Guest Speakers
Speakers can enrich learning, and boys in all grades have the opportunity to hear speakers on a wide range of topics in the classroom or assembly. Each year an author speaks to the boys thanks to the Kronengold Authors Fund, founded by a group of Old Boys in 2016. -
Class Plays
Class plays are big part of school life at St. Bernard’s. Beginning in first grade, each class performs a class play before parents and before the entire school at a Friday morning assembly.
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Community
The glory of this school will always be the people inside it.
Recent News
List of 8 news stories.
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Video of the Commencement Speaker - June 12, 2018
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A Visitor from 1627
Sixth graders took part in a special assembly which complements their study of American history this year. They were transported back in time to the year 1627 and heard from Susanna Winslow. -
Inside St. B’s Kitchen
St. Bernard’s students, faculty, and staff rave about the delicious, healthy dishes that are offered to them for lunch each day. Chef Wells and her team arrive at 6:30 a.m. each day, and within a few short hours, serve hot and cold dishes to almost 500 hungry St. B’s boys, teachers, and staff. -
Collecting for St. B’s Archives
As sad as it is to see a teacher retire from St. Bernard’s, it is most often a time when true gems find their way into the stacks of the archives. -
Community Service Movie Night
On Friday, September 28, the Community Service Club hosted a movie night in order to help buy Nathan, a teenage Jamaican boy suffering from cerebral palsy, a new wheelchair. -
Happy Birthday, St. B’s!
October 4, 2018, marks St. Bernard's School 114th birthday. To toast this special occasion, we share with you a “Recipe for St. Bernard’s Cocktail,” which was published in The Budget in 1925. -
Team Building and Fun Outdoors
On Thursday, September 27, the entire fourth grade took a break from city life and ventured into the woods upstate. They traveled to the Taconic Outdoor Education Center in Fahnestock Memorial State Park, also known as the “The Four Season Park,” for a day of games, problem solving, and team-building exercises. -
St. Bernard’s Community Book
St. Bernard’s selected a book for students and teachers to read over the summer. Boys in Grades V-IX and teachers in all grades read Refugee by Alan Gratz.
Athletes
The game’s the game for all.
Alumni
Sing we a song of our first Alma Mater...
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Peter Magowan
Recognized as one of Major League Baseball's most progressive leaders, Peter Magowan ’55 retired in September 2008 after serving sixteen seasons as the San Francisco Giants’ managing general partner. -
Justin Brown
A wooden alligator, a climbing pirate, a truck with rolling wheels and an operable hatch still adorn my shelves almost thirty years after their creation. -
AJ Houston
AJ Houston ’03 works in Global Equity Trading for the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets. In his role, he services the liquidity/trading needs of US-based mutual fund and hedge fund clients for Canadian Equity product. -
Luke Robert Young
I spent ten years at St. Bernard’s, roughly two thirds of my life. Although it was often challenging, St. B’s helped me mature into a thoughtful, open-minded person with a love of learning, music, and the value of good friendships. -
Ijah Mondesire-Crump, M.D.
Ijah Mondesire-Crump, M.D. ’98 is a Bronx native. After attending kindergarten at a public school in the South Bronx, he was chosen to participate in Early Steps, a program that promotes diversity in NYC independent schools. -
Antonio Weiss
Antonio Weiss ’80 is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he served as Counselor to the Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury, where he worked on issues related to financial markets, regulatory reform, financial stability, and consumer and housing finance. -
John Roberts
The benefits of a St. Bernard’s education can pop up at unexpected moments. A number of years ago, I was called upon to give a toast at a friend’s wedding. -
Noah Leavitt
Noah Leavitt ’00 serves as the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Orach Chaim in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in history and completed an M.A. in Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University. -
Zack O’Malley Greenburg
Zack O’Malley Greenburg ’99 is the senior editor of media and entertainment at Forbes, where he started as a reporter shortly after graduating from Yale in 2007. He is the author of three books... -
Michael Aduboffour
After St. Bernard's I began attending Groton School in the Fall of 2013. I played football from 9th through 11th grade, starting on Varsity my junior year, and I've spent all my time here as a sprinter for Groton's Track & Field team, of which I am now a captain. -
Robert Miyahara
I have been working at the intersection of finance, technology, the United States, and Japan since graduating from Princeton. -
Bill Dean
Bill Dean ’51, a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, is a lawyer, writer, and civic participant. As a lawyer, he served for twenty-five years as executive director of Volunteers of Legal Service, an organization providing pro bono civil legal services to benefit low-income residents of New York City. -
Michael Ivkov
Michael Ivkov ’12 is enrolled in Harvard College and recently completed his freshman year. Along with economics, he studies German and Ancient Greek language and literatures. Prior to enrolling, he championed the Harvard debate tournament as a junior at the Trinity School.
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