Greenwood Friends School vs. St. Columba Catholic School

Greenwood Friends School offers an educational environment where each child's unique gifts are nurtured and the Friends' principles of integrity, equality, community, simplicity, and peace are fostered.

Greenwood Friends School is an educational community in which students, teachers, and parents value learning, sharing, and living joyfully within a a challenging and supportive environment. Each child is welcomed and valued as a unique individual in this community.

Friends recognize "that of God" in each person, and this principle is central to our philosophy of educating hearts as well as minds.

Philosophy of Education:St. Columba School welcomes every child of any faith background to its morally and spiritually rich environment which features exemplary academics, solid faith formation, leadership privileges,and community outreach opportunities.

We have earned a fine reputation for inspiring our students to reach their potential and achieve personal success. Motivated by consistently superior achievements, St. Columba School will continue to prepare students for the 21st century by offering an integrated approach that brings together mind and body, matter and spirit, knowledge and reason, science and religion.

History:The Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius from nearby Danville founded St. Columba School in 1954.

Our Catholic School offers a complete curriculum with state certified teachers in Preschool through grade 8.

All are lay faculty with the exception of Grades 2 and 4.

A religious instructor of the same order as the founding Sisters teaches second grade.