News and Updates

Coast Episcopal School celebrated Epiphany this week with king cakes and blessings ???? ???? ???? Wednesday, our Royalty for the Day, Queen Annie and Queen Charlotte, delivered king cakes to every class! Thursday, Mother Clelie and our fifth graders led a special Eucharist chapel that included our annual tradition of “chalking” the school entrance and chapel doors to celebrate God’s blessings over CES for the new 2021 year. We hope your 2021 is full...Read More

Coast Episcopal School students collected more than 700 items, including canned food, cereal, pasta and more, during our fall food drive this year! The items were donated to the de l’Epee Deaf Center, Inc., during our Thanksgiving service. Our kindergarten students also did a great job counting and graphing the items as they came in!Read More

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) has announced its 2020 awards, presented annually to artists, writers, and musicians for excellence in works published, performed, or shown in the previous year. Winners are selected by out-of-state judges who are specialists in their fields. The awards are usually presented at a gala banquet held in different venues around the state, but this year’s celebration has been postponed until 2021 as...Read More

Ten middle school students competed against 12 other teams this past Saturday, January 25 in the FIRST LEGO League Qualifier at Saint Patrick’s High School. Team members included 7th grader Reese Miller and the following 6th grade students: Farres Baroudi, Huck Brodersen, Sam Grant, Waits Murphy, Luke Phillips, Nicolas Toner, Mitchell Thompson, Reeves Traxler, and Vince Vorrath. Participants competed in four categories: Robot Design, Innovation Project, Core Values Presentation, and...Read More

Thank you The University of Southern Mississippi  and CES parent Joe Kuhner, scientist at the Naval Oceanographic Office, for organizing a visit for CES 4th-7th grade students to the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX 2019) and Open House at the USM Marine Research Center in Gulfport. CES students not only learned about cutting- edge naval technology advancements, but they were some of the very first to see how the emerging technologies...Read More

Coast Episcopal School Girl Scouts Install “Buddy Bench” on Playground   The Coast Episcopal School Girl Scouts have installed a new Buddy Bench on the school’s multi-age playground. The bench received a blessing by School Chaplain, the Reverend Clelie McCandless in chapel on Monday, Oct. 27, 2019.  How does a Buddy Bench work? If a student is sitting on the Buddy Bench, then that student is looking for a play-mate....Read More

  Sponsored by TSI Diesel Worx Coast Episcopal School is excited to announce the 2019 winners of Children in the Arts Contest and Workshop. The Children in the Arts Contest is open to fourth through sixth graders enrolled in public, private, and parochial schools on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  The schools that participated selected first, second and third place winners from their students and that artwork was submitted to the...Read More

Join us for our first-ever Maker Camp! While CES is awaiting construction of its own makerspace, they have rented out the FabLab in Van Cleave, MS for a unique makerspace experience to give our students a “taste” of what will transpire at school every day. The camp, for students just finishing Grades 3-6, takes place May 28-31, 2019, from 8:00am-3:00pm. The cost of the camp is $200. Transportation from and...Read More

Imagine a Toddler through eighth grade school where theory and practice truly collide. Not only are students expected to learn algorithms and equations and grammar and sentence structure, they are also expected to take their knowledge and innovatively design and create a real, functional three-dimensional product demonstrating their knowledge and understanding. And while ideas and creative thinking are valuable, this school takes it one step further and requires students to...Read More