Education
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
Promoted
Walk the Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School campus, and you’ll find students with a drive to explore their intellectual reach.
The largest Episcopal parish day school in the country—with 1,376 students ages 3 years old through 12th grade—HIES encompasses a beautiful 43-acre campus with a stand-alone Primary School and Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, as well as a Fine Arts Building, two modern gymnasiums and four expansive athletic fields. The campus flagship building—a brand new, state-of-the art, three-story STEM Building—includes a robotics lab, greenhouse and cutting-edge broadcast studio.
From kindergarten Brainstormers to Upper School Engineering and Global Citizenship courses, students engage in challenging academics: acclaimed reading and writing programs, extensive foreign language courses, hands-on science programs, robotics, Film & TV Production classes and the Program for Global Citizenship. Students thrive in this vibrant learning environment, with 100 percent of graduates going on to college.
Many scholars also discover their artist within at HIES, through music, theater or the visual arts. And the school has a proud athletic tradition that includes 40 individual state champions and 13 team state championships.
More than 10 faith traditions are represented at HIES, a uniquely diverse and close community. Steeped in the Episcopal tradition of inclusion, HIES is respectful of all people, and welcomes students of all backgrounds.
Agnes Scott. Baylor. Brown. Duke. Emory. Florida. UGA. Georgia Tech. Harvard. Morehouse. Notre Dame. Sewanee. Texas. Wake Forest. Whatever your aspirations for a college education, HIES can help you get there.
Every day in classrooms, labs and studios all across campus, HIES students apply academics to real life problems and global issues. After gradation, they become change agents, people who are accomplishing great things and making a difference in their local communities—and beyond.
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GRADES OFFERED pre-K3–12
TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS 1,375
NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 525
FOUNDED 1959
STUDENTS OF COLOR 13%
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE (K–5) 16
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE (MIDDLE SCHOOL) 18
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE (HIGH SCHOOL) 18
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION Episcopalian
SENIORS WITH NATIONAL MERIT RECOGNITION 4
GRADE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FIRST OFFERED pre-K3
LANGUAGE(S) OFFERED French, Latin, Mandarin, Spanish
LOWEST TUITION FOR 5-DAY STUDENTS $9,760
ANNUAL TUITION FOR HIGHEST GRADE $25,520
STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID 13%
CLASS SIZE EXPANDS IN pre-K3, pre-K4, K, 4, 5, 6, 9
UNIFORM yes
BUS TRANSPORTATION no
TEACHER RETENTION RATE 90%
AP COURSES OFFERED 24
STUDENTS SCORING 3+ ON AP EXAMS 72%
VARSITY SPORTS baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, wrestling
DIVISION GHSA class A
ART STUDIOS 6
THEATER PRODUCTIONS PER YEAR 5
MUSICAL ENSEMBLES 13
ANNUAL APPLICATIONS PER OPENING fluctuates based upon grade
WHAT’S NEW New this year are a 61,000-square-foot upper school STEM building with a state-of-the-art film studio and print/broadcast journalism suite; a fully equipped upper school robotics lab; and a greenhouse and agricultural aquaponics space. Additionally, HIES was awarded a $500,000, three-year STEAM grant from the Goizueta Foundation, and was named the “Most Positive High School in Atlanta” by Positive Athlete Georgia.
