Spring Discovery: Each grade takes a trip that offers students the opportunity to stretch their limits and deepen their sense of community.
Wayfinder: San Domenico has partnered with Stanford School’s Project Wayfinder, a curriculum that utilizes a wayfinding metaphor—using traditional and indigenous navigation techniques and skills to journey through the natural world—to equip students and teachers with tools and skills to create purposeful lives.
Game Design Academy: three-year program that gives students the experience of being a practicing member of the 3D video game industry. Students have the opportunity to focus on a branch of the industry, Software Engineering, Digital Art, or Narration Design.
Digital Arts Program: students learn to decode contemporary texts and digital content, to use 21st century tools to engage with their worlds in meaningful ways, and to express their sense of purpose through real-world production.
Service Learning: In the Upper School, the Real Opportunities for Service Education (ROSE) Project is a two-year commitment to an issue with reciprocal benefits for both the community and the student.
Ethnic Studies: a thread that runs through the Philosophy, Ethics, and World Religions (PEWR), Social Studies, and English Programs—is meant to cultivate understanding, respect, and empathy for individuals and groups of people living both within our own community and globally.
Virtuoso Program: designed for Upper School students who are exploring their potential as string musicians and wish to dedicate themselves to a rigorous academic and musical curriculum. San Domenico is the only upper school in the nation that offers an integrated and intensive music program, combined with college preparatory academics, that prepares students for music careers.
STEAM: The Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) Program facilitates multidisciplinary and project-based learning across departments.
Philosophy, Ethics, and World Religions: study cultural thought and belief systems, historical events, theological concepts, and philosophical issues and movements.
Sustainability: Our ecoliteracy program is integrated into the K-12 curriculum with environmental education, engagement, and stewardship at the core of who we are and what we do. SD’s faculty counsel and 515 acres of open space provide students the time and space to work and learn outdoors.
