Living in a multicultural world requires a capacity of understanding difference and the skill of relating to others who are different, whether that difference is grounded in race, class, cultural tradition, religion, gender, nationality or even personal style. Both the formal curriculum and daily experience in the school community can and should help children learn to cope with and appreciate diversity and difference. If they acquire an appreciative sensitivity to different people and cultures, they will be more secure in themselves and better prepared to enjoy the richness and possibilities of the unprecedentedly diverse world they will inherit.

Toward this end, Grace Church School commits itself

• to continue to develop a school culture and curriculum that will teach our students both the skills and the sensibilities necessary for living in a world of change and difference
• to achieve an educationally enriching level of diversity in the student body, the faculty, and the Board of Trustees
• to provide the resources and support to secure the self-esteem of every child.