In fidelity to the truths of our Holy Catholic Church, the mission of Saint Augustine Academy is to assist parents in their duty of fostering within their children growth in the theological, intellectual, and moral virtues. We strive in every task to inculcate in our students the profound insight of St. Augustine: “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
Students will:
1. Cultivate the baptismal gifts of Faith, Hope, and Charity.
2. Know, defend, and live the Holy Catholic Faith.
3. Frequent Mass, the Sacraments, and traditional Catholic devotions.
4. Show reverence to God and His Creation.
Students will:
1. Attain the tools of lifelong learning: the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
2. Seek to understand what is true, desire what is good, and love what is beautiful.
3. Explore the splendors of Creation through the precision of empirical science and mathematics.
4. Examine, from a Christocentric perspective, human nature in history and in the masterworks of literature.
Students Will:
1. Form and inform a correct and Catholic conscience so as to better delight in the things one ought to delight in and to shun the things one ought to shun.
2. Grow in virtue, which is the fruit and seed of morally good acts, making possible self-mastery, ease, and joy in leading a morally good life.
3. Contribute to the common good of civil society by accepting the duties of citizenship, promoting the dignity and sanctity of all persons inherent in an authentic Culture of Life, and exercising stewardship over the natural world.
4. Recognize the resounding call to life-long conversion of heart, thereby engendering compassion and forgiveness for our fellow man.
Saint Augustine Academy is first and foremost a Catholic institution. The school is committed to teaching the traditional transcendentals of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty- all of which emanate from the Holy Trinity. Without properly centering everything at St. Augustine Academy on this truth, the mission of St. Augustine Academy would fall apart. All academics, social activities, spiritual events, and extracurriculars are centered on God and His teachings that are given to us through the Holy Catholic Church.
Saint Augustine Academy follows a classical liberal arts education curriculum. The liberal arts are traditionally divided into the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). Every subject taught at St. Augustine Academy is planned according to the tenets of a classical liberal arts education, in order to form rational and virtuous young men and women.
Finally, Saint Augustine Academy is a family school focused on community. This means we are trying to create a small, intentional community where all of the families at the school know each other and have similar goals in mind for their children, i.e. to form virtuous and saintly men and women.