Grades Served:
PreK-12
Address:
2308 West Hardies Road
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 15044
United States
2308 West Hardies Road
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 15044
United States
Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
Aquinas Academy is a Pre-K - 12 independent Catholic School located in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh. Founded in 1996, Academy was started by parents to fulfill its mission of providing a rigorous and outstanding academic program in the classical tradition, centered on Jesus Christ, and in all things, faithful to the magisterium of the Church. The school has 512 students , with an average of 40 student in each grade level (2 classes), and enjoys a reputation of solid Catholic formation and college-preparatory academics, rounded out with athletics and other extracurricular options.
Mission
Aquinas Academy is a private school formed in the Catholic tradition for boys and girls grades prekindergarten through twelve. The Academy was formed, and will be governed, by parents who are deeply committed to the moral and intellectual formation of their children, which they recognize to be their ultimate responsibility. The Academy is committed to ensuring that this formation takes place in the context of solid Christian teaching and piety which is completely loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Accordingly, the mission of Aquinas Academy is:
To serve parents in carrying out their fundamental responsibility to ensure the moral and intellectual formation of their children;
To foster in the Academy’s students a fuller understanding of, and deep appreciation for, their Catholic Faith in a manner completely loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church;
To offer Academy students an intensive traditional curriculum covering all the major areas of the liberal arts and natural sciences, in an academic program that is both rigorous and college preparatory;
To help each student reach his or her fullest potential and acquire the tools necessary to succeed in higher education and professional life;
To produce exceptionally well-formed and authentically Catholic leaders whose future accomplishments are of service to others and give glory to God in the midst of the world;
To offer such a program to qualified students from a wide range of social, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
Mission
Aquinas Academy is a private school formed in the Catholic tradition for boys and girls grades prekindergarten through twelve. The Academy was formed, and will be governed, by parents who are deeply committed to the moral and intellectual formation of their children, which they recognize to be their ultimate responsibility. The Academy is committed to ensuring that this formation takes place in the context of solid Christian teaching and piety which is completely loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Accordingly, the mission of Aquinas Academy is:
To serve parents in carrying out their fundamental responsibility to ensure the moral and intellectual formation of their children;
To foster in the Academy’s students a fuller understanding of, and deep appreciation for, their Catholic Faith in a manner completely loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church;
To offer Academy students an intensive traditional curriculum covering all the major areas of the liberal arts and natural sciences, in an academic program that is both rigorous and college preparatory;
To help each student reach his or her fullest potential and acquire the tools necessary to succeed in higher education and professional life;
To produce exceptionally well-formed and authentically Catholic leaders whose future accomplishments are of service to others and give glory to God in the midst of the world;
To offer such a program to qualified students from a wide range of social, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh is an ICLE Member School.
Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh is an ICLE Premier Member School.
