Our Mission & Vision
The mission of St. John Paul II High School is to advance the intellectual, spiritual, and human formation within Catholic tradition by boldly leading all students toward “knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ” (Eph 4:13).
Where can young adults go to receive an academically rigorous education in science, math, and the humanities that integrates a Catholic worldview? Where can young adults go to encounter God and learn more about the Catholic faith? How will they learn the tools to share the love and joy that only comes from Christ?
At St. John Paul II High School, our faith animates everything we do. Christ is at the center of all our prayer, study, work, athletics, play, and time together. We believe that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our life, which is why we begin every day with Mass.
We view education as the ability to perceive, understand, and respond to revealed truths of the world and ourselves. Good education enables us to study these truths through faith, science, and reason, understanding that all subjects reveal something about God as the author of life and the creator of the world.
We are dedicated to hiring faculty and staff on fire for the faith. We want the students to not only learn about God but to graduate with a passionate faith wanting to claim Christ, His Church, and His mission for themselves.
Encountering Christ: A Sacramental Formation
The first step of our process is to remember the words of St. Augustine, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O Lord”. The most important part of our daily life at JPIIHS is making sure that students are able to see the face of Christ in our studies and our frequent access to Sacraments through frequent confession, weekly adoration, and daily participation in the Mass.
Encountering Witnesses: An Invitation to Journey on the Way
After building a campus where Christ is so present, the next piece is to invite students into that Divine Life by having deeply Catholic educators who can, by both their knowledge and their example, be able to show students what it is to pursue Christ.
Encountering Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
The most important part of a school’s mission is to make sure that the students learn truth and are able to recognize and communicate that truth after they leave school. We center our four year curriculum on rigorous academics, nourishing extracurricular, and Catholic social teaching so that they are able to follow the advice of St. John Paul II and “become who you are”, which is to say a Saint.
Encountering Community: Finding Complete Joy
After Students have encountered Christ, those who witness Him, and the Truth of creation, we aim to have students seek it for themselves with one another and the community that they engage with. We encourage our students to make lasting friendships based on virtue remembering as Christ says, “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”
Encountering the Gospel: Being Sent Into the World
As students complete their four years with us, and as they have encountered Christ in their daily life, their teachers, their studies, and their peers, the last step is that they might be able to spread that encounter themselves and become bearers of the Gospel message.
Academics
St. John Paul II High School provides a holistic education to uniquely form students in the Christian anthropology of the Western Tradition. Students from various academic levels enter the school and are given four years of math, science, history, literature, theology, and a variety of elective courses.
Our graduates have gone on to succeed in a variety of public and private universities, including the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Rome, Benedictine College, Franciscan University, Thomas Aquinas College, University of Dallas, Carroll College, the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, St. John Vianney Seminary, and the Marines.
Sports
We look forward to having a sports program when the future campus is built. We will have a track, tennis courts, and CHSA regulation gym in our plans for the current and future phases of the project.
As we wait for that to become a reality, students are encouraged to engage in sports programs outside of the school so that they can pursue excellence not just academically, but in athletics as well.
