HEART. MIND. HOME.

There are four pillars of the St. John Bosco Academy experience that set us apart from traditional schools. We are Catholic in all that we do. We are Hybrid in our structure. We are Bosconian in our formation. And we are Classical in our approach to education.

St. John Bosco Academy exists to support families in the endeavor of educating their children, but also to provide a community where families can share two common loves: love of the Catholic faith and love of family.

The goal of the St. John Bosco experience as set forth by the founders is threefold, and what we commonly refer to as the SJBA PAC: Preparation for college and higher education, Academic accountability and rigor, and a Community of faithful families.

Students must be prepared to go into the world and make a difference with their God-given talents: to be in the world and not of the world, to be prepared with a cogent defense of their faith, to have an understanding of objective truth, to be able to discern right from wrong and truth from lies. We endeavor to cultivate critical thinkers rather than good workers.

While the family is the primary sphere of influence, now more than ever children need a very strong secondary sphere of influence in order to be counter-cultural, especially as they enter the middle and high school years. Our St. John Bosco families, while each beautiful and unique in their own right, are very united in their central vision of getting their children to Heaven. Having a community of faithful families to support one another on this journey is an essential component of the SJBA experience.

The goal of our academic program at SJBA is to teach our students, in the words of St. Thomas Aquinas, “how to order things rightly and judge them well.” We utilize content-rich, teacher-led materials across the core subjects that are designed to inspire students to think critically and problem solve, rather than to simply memorize information. We employ the stages of the classical trivium– grammar, logic, and rhetoric– which correspond to the stages of human development, with the ultimate ends being the cultivation of wisdom and virtue.

Giovanni Melchior Bosco was born in 1815, the youngest child of a peasant farmer in north Italy. Raised by a holy mother after his father died when he was only 2, John Bosco’s life was marked with mystery and faith from a very young age. He began having dreams at the age of 9 that would eventually show themselves to be messages from Our Lord to John. In his very first dream, the young Bosco dreamed that he was in a field with a crowd of cursing and misbehaving children. John jumped into the crowd to try to stop them by fighting and shouting. Suddenly a man with a face filled with light appeared dressed in a white flowing mantle. The man called John over and made him leader of the boys and said, “You will have to win these friends of yours not with blows but with gentleness and kindness.”

We invite you to sign up for an Open House, which includes a tour of the campus during school hours for a first-hand experience of the SJBA culture and mission!