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One of the goals of a Jesuit education, found in the St. John's Mission Statement, is educating "men-for-others" (taken from a 1973 address by the Rev. Pedro Arrupe, [5] former Superior General of the Society of Jesus). As a result, St. John's focuses its education on the "whole person", instilling the values of service in its students.
Most Catholic schools in the United States accept students of all religions, ethnic backgrounds, and ability, with a minority expecting students to actually be Catholic. Some Catholic schools are more relaxed in their expectation of a largely Catholic student body, due to the demographic proportion of Catholics being especially low in some areas.
The Toronto Catholic District School Board mission statement that nurtures "the faith development and academic excellence of our Catholic learning community through the love of God, neighbour, and self." The vision encourages learning communities of the Board to follow God's Image that grows in "Knowledge, with Justice and Hope." [11]
The school opened in August 1985 as a parish elementary school with a small enrollment of 100 students in grades kindergarten to four. [3] The school building, consisting of two floors with four classrooms on each floor, was dedicated by Bishop Stanley Ott and Father Eugene Engels, the pastor at St. Jean Vianney Church at the time.
The Education Conference of Catholic Seminary Faculties (1898) The Association of Catholic Colleges (1899) The Parish School Conference (1902) [2] In a meeting held in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 12–14, 1904, the three organizations decided to unite as the Catholic Educational Association (CEA). [2]
Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart (Woodlands, WA, or WASH) is a private, Roman Catholic girls' high school in Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago.Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart, it is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago but is run by lay staff with several Sisters sitting on the Board of Trustees.
Catholic education has been identified as a positive fertility factor; Catholic education at the college level and, to a lesser degree, at secondary school level is associated with a higher number of children, even when accounting for the confounding effect that higher religiosity leads to a higher probability of attending religious education. [9]
The Brothers of Holy Cross opened Saint Francis High School as an all-boys school in September 1955. The original teaching facility was a small frame building, renovated from a grammar school and named Grant Hall after Harry Grant, the first student to enroll. Other buildings included a former residence, Andre House, and some peripheral structures.