[2] The school initially leased temporary grounds in Newport, but moved across the bay to a permanent campus in Middletown in 1901.

He implemented the prefect system and organized the school into six grades, called Forms I-VI in the British fashion.

[10] The school is currently raising money to grow the endowment, expand student dormitories, and add new faculty housing.

[2] In 2018, Architectural Digest named St. George's the most beautiful private high school campus in Rhode Island.

[27] It hosts three six-week voyages a year, during which St. George's students are schooled in nautical science, oceanography, and marine biology.

[28][29] In April 2015, St. George's announced that it had retained a law firm to investigate reports of past sexual abuse by school faculty and staff.

[33] Two weeks after releasing the initial report, the school agreed to commission a second investigation by law firm Foley Hoag.

[31][35][36] It found that at least 51 students were victims of sexual misconduct by six St. George's employees; the bulk of the reports dated back to the 1970s and 1980s.

[31] Finally, the report confirmed that St. George's currently has "state of the art" programs and policies to address sexual misconduct, bullying, and hazing.

[31] The investigators also highlighted an issue that was colloquially known as the "St. George's loophole":[37] according to Foley Hoag, it was legally ambiguous whether the version of Rhode Island's mandatory reporter law in place at the time required schools like St. George's to report allegations of sexual abuse to law enforcement, and the relevant government agencies had repeatedly claimed that abuse at schools were not within their jurisdiction.

"[38][37] In June 2016, Rhode Island law enforcement declined to file criminal charges against the school.