Our Beliefs

The mission of Sts. Philip and James School is directed toward providing a solid academic foundation for our students, to prepare them for a personally fulfilling, successful and value-based future. These values are based in the humanist tradition of the Catholic-Christian faith. We believe in:

We believe that quality Catholic-Christian education is an education of the entire human person and as such requires a particular set of educational priorities, which serve to address the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical needs of our student body.

We believe that we are a Catholic-Christian community, which has been called to demonstrate, in our day-to-day interaction with one another, those values, and attitudes, which are derived from our belief in the One-Trinitarian God. Recognizing that Catholic-Christian community is both a gift and a task, we believe that each individual must actively work to build Christian community and that personal and communal prayer is fundamental to this purpose.

We believe that a school’s mission can be effective only with the support of parents, who are the primary educators of their children. Furthermore, we believe that the school can, and should, assist parents in all those educational aspects, which pertain to their children.