St. James began as a School Society by a small group of German immigrants in 1857. They occupied as many as five buildings in the Lincoln Park neighborhood between their beginning and settling onto the corner of what is now Dickens and Fremont in 1905.
Currently, we feature five early childhood classrooms, an elementary division consisting of grades 1-4, and a departmentalized middle school that graduates students to Chicago’s best high schools. With a middle school sized gym on the fourth floor and a student library with over 2,000 volumes, St. James has grown to be the best value for an education with a Christian worldview in the city of Chicago.
