Saint Gregory the Great Catholic School is AdvancED accredited, and the Diocese of Richmond is AdcancED accredited as a school system. 
AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. They are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential. While their expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in school accreditation, AdvancED is far from a typical accrediting agency. Their goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. Rather, their commitment is to help schools improve.Combining the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change, AdvancED serves as a trusted partner to 34,000 schools and school systems—employing more than four million educators and enrolling more than 20 million students—across the United States and 70 other nations.

St. Gregory the Great School follows the curriculum set forth by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond

In addition, the following programs are offered for remediation and enrichment:

GATE

For qualified students, the GATE program will embed and accelerate the skills of the Diocesan Consensus Curriculum. The National Association of Gifted Children Programming Standards are also followed as they focus on the social, emotional, and academic needs of our GATE students. The goal of the GATE program is to address the learning needs of gifted and talented learners by differentiating the curriculum through academic challenge, extension, inquiry, creativity, interest, and inventive critical and higher level thinking and questioning. Grades 2-5 will meet once a week per grade for a day of learning.

SGGS has a GATE student identification committee comprised of certified, gifted-endorsed teachers. The identification process for rising Grades 3-5 will occur at the end of each school year. After the GATE Committee has reviewed the scores on the spring Scantron Performance Series testing and overall grades, those students who have a National Percentile Rank of 85 or above will be referred for further evaluation on the Renzulli Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Gifted and Talented Students. Letters will be sent to newly identified students in June of that school year.

Eligibility for the program requires that the student have a qualified complete battery of psycho-educational testing. In addition, recommendation by the classroom teacher and/or performance below grade level will also be considered in student placement.

Students are included, to the maximum extent possible excluding the language arts block, in the regular classroom setting. They are members of their age-appropriate homerooms and are incorporated fully with those classes for religion, core curriculum subjects, art, music, library, physical education, lunch, and recess.

Learning Resource
In Pre-K and Kindergarten, a resource teacher screens students for learning weaknesses and provides extra help to strengthen student skills.

Title I Resource for Reading and Math
A reading/mathematics resource teacher is on staff at Saint Gregory the Great School to provide support to the classroom teachers. Students identified with a need will be able to receive extra support.

High School Credit Courses
For those students who have the prerequisite courses and meet eligibility criteria, high school credit courses are offered in World History,  Spanish I, Geo-Science, Algebra I, and Geometry. Credit is dependent upon the final average and final exam score.

STREAM Activities
Which combine science, technology, religion, engineering, art, and math with inquiry/project-based learning to challenge our students to use critical thinking skills and problem-solving strategies with an inquiry-based, experiential curriculum,

• relating to real-world applications
• encouraging critical thinking, problem-solving and teamwork
• going beyond minimum competencies
• reflecting Diocesan, state and/or national standards

Pre-K – integrated into learning activity at least once a week
Grades K-5 – receive a challenge enrichment activity once a week in the classroom. Many lessons will be integrated into the science curriculum using the Nancy Larson Science materials
Grades 6-8 – receive hands-on learning integrated into cross-curricular lessons.

 Life Skills Program Grades 4-8
The curriculum is created through combining several relevant and meaningful resources designed for Middle School Students. Some of the values and competencies we cover include:

All sixth, seventh and eighth-grade students participate in a weekly Life Skills class taught by our School Counselor that focuses on character development, as well as, other “real life” skills that they may use to be successful academically, socially, emotionally and in their future endeavors. This course is designed to help middle school students think about their academic and personal goals, ambitions, emotions, and feelings. It is about examining and exploring character; and learning and practicing positive values and character traits. 

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.  Most talents are, to some extent, a gift.  Good character, by contrast, is not given to us.  We have to build it piece by piece- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.