MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY

Saint Therese Carmelite School was founded in 1926 and has traditionally served students in Kindergarten through eighth grade.  Deeply rooted in Carmelite spirituality, Saint Therese Carmelite School, united with our parents who are the primary educators of their children, seeks to form students in faith, academics, and virtue through a Classical education.

Saint Therese Carmelite School is first and foremost a Catholic school.  We cultivate Catholic values and spiritual formation of the school community through daily prayer, weekly school Masses, recitation of the Rosary, praying the Stations of the Cross, May Crowning, and the sacraments.  Carmelite spirituality is fostered through the teaching and example of the Carmelite friars and sisters.  Every classroom has a Carmelite patron saint.  We entrust our school to our Loving Savior, His Blessed Mother, our patroness Saint Therese of Lisieux and all Carmelite saints.  By teaching our students to imitate the virtues and lives of the saints, we aim to form students who fulfill their destiny of becoming saints.

Saint Therese Carmelite School educates students through the Catholic classical model of education to equip our students with the logic, critical thinking and language skills necessary to succeed throughout their lives.  We seek to give students the necessary tools of learning and to foster a deep sense of wonder and love for all that is genuinely true, good, and beautiful.  We emphasize classical learning, not only, because we want our students to read well, speak well, and think well, but ultimately because truth, beauty and goodness are desirable in themselves and for their own sake.

We seek to incorporate within our students the wisdom of two thousand years of Catholic thought, history, culture, and the arts so that they might understand themselves and their world in the light of that Truth, and acquire the character to live happy and integrated lives in the service of God and others.