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What does the future of K-12 education look like?

How can we prepare students for their future and not our past? At Presbyterian Day School, we're not just asking that question, we're working on answering it by leading the way with an innovative approach to elementary education.
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About Presbyterian Day School
Our mission statement is the same as it was in 1949:

Presbyterian Day School strives to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man
Someone famous in (1 Corinthians 10:31 and Luke 2:52).
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No one knows boys better.

At Presbyterian Day School, we know how to teach boys, reach them, and channel their energies in positive and productive ways.
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Boys Thrive at PDS
PDS is a school of tomorrow for the world of tomorrow. Our curriculum focuses on critical and creative thinking, connecting ideas and collaboration. It is both challenging and current...and engaging and exciting to boys.
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Whether they are learning to draw, play an instrument, or shoot a basketball, boys love the hands-on, active, creative approach that we offer at PDS.
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Climbing
the walls
comes
naturally.

Boys move.
A lot.

We're experts at redirecting
that energy.

Many of our classrooms have standing desks, bungee chairs for bouncing, and write-on walls and desks for scribbling out ideas. Experience (and science) tells us that when boys aren’t focused on sitting still, they concentrate on what’s really important – learning.

Any extra energy gets burned off in one of our two gyms. Our Lifetime Fitness Center is outfitted with a rock-climbing wall, high ropes course, and virtual X-Bikes. Oh, and there are two playgrounds (plus a turf field).

When boys get to move their bodies,
their brains will thank you.

When boys get to move their bodies, their brains will thank you.

Take a Spin

Zip through San Francisco. Whip through the Alps. With the help of virtual reality, our boys can pedal anywhere on X-Bikes.

Sports Offered

Interscholastic: Football (5th and 6th) Basketball (6th) Cross Country & Track (6th) Tennis (6th), Golf (6th) Intramural: (4th, 5th, and 6th) Tackle Football, Basketball, Soccer

No one knows boys better.

That’s why each gets his own customized education plan and the support of our staff of learning specialists.

Climbing the walls comes naturally.

Boys are loud and messy and can't sit still. And that's completely okay. We're experts at directing that energy.

We bring out the best in boys.

Our character education program, Building Boys, Making Men, is integrated into every corner of our campus.

A state-of-the-boy campus.

Macbooks, Mandarin, Design Thinking, and Maker’s Club. Even our littlest guys are learning to code.

Presbyterian Day School (PDS) is a private, Christian preschool and elementary school serving boys from 2-years-old through 6th grade for almost 75 years.

With our mission of striving to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man, we take a holistic approach to education, nurturing the heart, soul, mind, and body of each boy.

4025 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38111

901-842-4600

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Boys move.
A lot.

When boys get to move their bodies,
their brains will thank you.