SAS believes that adolescents thrive when they have a team of adults who know them and care for them. Our residential houses are intentionally small, just 12-28 residents, so that the students develop deep bonds with their housemates and with the team of residential house parents responsible for their well-being.
All residential houses have at least one faculty member living in an attached residence and some have as many as six. The rest of the residential team lives in proximity on campus. Groups of students are frequently in faculty residences for social events, cooking nights, or the opportunity to enjoy the company of faculty children and/or pets.
Equipped for Your Comfort
Each residential house also includes amenities for comfortable living. Students usually live in doubles with a roommate who is assigned to them their first year and chosen by them in subsequent years. In addition to beds, desks, dressers, and closets (plenty of space for clothes and personal items), all houses (all of campus) are Wi-fi accessible. The houses also have laundry facilities and a common room with a television and microwave. All houses and rooms are air-conditioned.
The Hub of Activity
At some day/boarding schools, the boarders feel left behind at the end of the day. Not at SAS. Day students seem to be on campus almost as much as the boarding students and frequently participate in weekend activities and school-sponsored trips. Boarding students are regularly invited to spend an evening or weekend off-campus with day friends and their families. Likewise, a boarding student may receive house parent permission to have a day student friend spend the night in their room.
Residential Life FAQs
You and your child benefit from a team of people who are involved in your child’s life.
The Advisor: Your child will have an advisor assigned to them their first year at SAS. They will sit together for all-school gatherings and meet each Tuesday for a general check-in. Your child’s advisor is your main contact when you have any questions or concerns.
The Residential Team: Each residential house has a team of four residential house parents who oversee students in the house, help students during study hours, and plan social events for the residents. Your child’s house parent team will communicate with you at the beginning of the year about dorm life and the best way to contact them if you have questions or concerns.
The Residential Life Coordinator: Our Residential Life Coordinator provides logistical support to the Residential Teams.
The Student Life Team manages and supervises all non-academic activities on campus.
As a boarding school, we have systems in place to help them feel loved and cared for. In the event of a late-night illness, you or your child may contact the houseparent on site or the Administrator-on-Duty (AOD). We have an on-call nurse and 24-hour emergency mental health counseling.
Study Hours are designed to give students a designated time to accomplish their work. Students may work together by obtaining permission from their supervising house parent and either welcoming that student into their house common room or the Dining Hall.
The first person to contact is your child’s advisor. If the problem is immediate, the advisor will either look in on your child or ask a house parent or a member of our Wellness Team to do so.
If the issue is more of a long-term concern, your child’s advisor will initiate a process that will bring several adults together to create a “care team” for your child. Depending on the nature of the concerns, the care team may include your child’s house parents, teachers, our chaplain, and/or our mental health counselors. You will be kept abreast of any meetings, plans, or outcomes.
We use Orah, an online system that will help us to keep track of parent permissions and student sign-outs, leaves, etc.
This will provide you with more flexibility regarding when you give us information or permissions for weekends and breaks and will give campus staff another layer of information for knowing where students are.
Any student who is struggling academically will be placed on "supervised study" during weeknight study hours, which meets in the Tucker Room with a designated on-duty faculty member.
During study hours, the supervising house parent regularly checks in on students to see that they are using their time wisely. Additionally, cell phones are collected for 7th through 10th graders during study hours.
Typical Weekday Schedule
- 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
- Students meet in their advisory groups on Mondays and Fridays for announcements. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays students meet with their advisors mid-day for advisory, Chapel, and J-Block, an opportunity to learn and celebrate together. (The J stands for joy!)
- 8:45 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Classes
- 3:40 p.m. PEAK co-curricular programs
- 5:30 p.m. dinner
- 6:30 p.m. student union open/supply runs
- 7:15 p.m. study hours begin
- 9:15 p.m. wind down
- 10:30 p.m. lights out
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Dining Services
FLIK Independent School Dining is our food service provider. Fresh, warm meals are always accompanied by a salad bar, sandwich bar, and vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options.