News and Updates

Coast Episcopal is this month’s MS Gulf Coast Chamber’s member spotlight. Thank you to WXXV, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce, and the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce for telling our CES story. Please click on the image below to see the video!  Read More

The Gail Keenan Art Center at Coast Episcopal School is excited to announce the 2023 Paper Fools: Works on Paper, a group show featuring paper-based art created by 25 dynamic artists. This year’s participating artists include: Michelle Allee Kristen Allen Simone Blanchard Church Goin’ Mule Maude Schuyler Clay Nicole Dikon Paulette Dove Frank Estrada Suzanne Findeisen Kat Fitzpatrick Holly Garvin Kerr Grabowski Mary Hardy Tarah Herbert Sadako Lewis Ann Madden Ricardo Moody Yuki Northington...Read More

Thirteen Sixth Graders from Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach traveled to New Orleans’ famous Orpheum Theater on Friday, March 17 to experience an Open Rehearsal of works by Chinese and Polish Composers performed by the Louisiana Philharmonic Symphony and conducted by Rei Hotoda. Accompanied by CES Music Teacher Jody Smith, Sixth Grade Teacher Angela Colegrove and six parents, the students were able to hear Zhou Long’s The Rhyme of...Read More

Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach launched its innovative Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program in August 2021, after identifying a need to provide a “bridge year” for students who would benefit from an extra year between Preschool and Kindergarten.  Now in place for over a year and a half, educators at the independent school are convinced that the program has provided untold benefits to its participating students.   According to TK teacher...Read More

The Gail Keenan Art Center will host a Saturday Art Class with Suzanne Findeisen on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Open to adults and young adults, with a max class size of 8, participants will be introduced to the art of indigo dying using the Japanese folding technique called Shibori. Participants will be provided with directions on how to mix the dye, fold fabrics and complete the dying process. Students will be provided material,...Read More

The third graders of Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach have established the independent school as one of 150,000 locations across the globe to offer a Little Free Library.  Located just outside the CES main building at 5065 Espy Avenue in Long Beach,  the free standing unit is accessible to the general public seven days a week, 24 hours a day. According to third-grade teacher Jillianne Larson, her students were...Read More

“It takes a village” was brought to life at Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach this week when 25 parents volunteered to step into CES Classrooms while their children’s teachers attended the 2022 Mississippi Winter Literacy Conference at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. For three days, December 7-9, parents partnered with staff teaching assistants to cover Kindergarten, through Third Grades while each of those class’s teachers attended the three-day conference. ...Read More

Coast Episcopal School’s Third Grade Class traveled to the University of Southern Mississippi on Wednesday, October 26, to experience the de Grummond Children’s Collection, one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary youth literature in North America.  The students, who are first introduced to the concept of book writing in first grade, have been focusing on the process of writing since the beginning of the current school year.  Third...Read More

Coast Episcopal School of Long Beach has become a NASA ASTRO CAMP® Community Partner, a National/International Partner Program that provides NASA-unique STEM engagement activities and experiences to youth, families and educators in their own communities.   The independent school is now one of a total of 201 NASA ACCP partners in 29 states and six countries, and one of 14 MS Gulf Coast partners.   The NASA ACCP (NASA ASTRO CAMP®...Read More