Why Boarding School?

During adolescence, boys often have a strong desire to test their boundaries; they long to enter the world of men, but they are required to go to school. They desire more freedom than many families feel is safe to grant in this challenging world.  At a Catholic boarding school, boys can be away from the shelter of home and yet be safe to test their wings under the care of a staff dedicated to forming virtuous men. 

A good boarding school liberates a boy by placing him in an environment conducive to making good choices, offering clear, reasonable, easily-obeyed rules which everyone around him is following, forming a habit of virtue. Living together, boys learn the give-and-take of getting along with different personalities as they pray, work, eat, play, and study together. Freed from the distraction of companions who may be less focused on wholesome things, boys at a good boarding school find their own focus on the right things sharpened. Education is not simply about learning, but living.

Why All Boys?

A long-standing tradition in schooling favors single-sex education, a model that was accepted for centuries and preferred by many saintly educators. Boys and girls live and learn better when they are educated separately, especially once they reach adolescence. They are different and deserve different approaches and pacing. Besides, when educated together, boys and girls greatly distract one another. Such distraction impedes engagement with studies and habits designed to form virtue. In the end, education is about living out the truth, and boys at this age tend to be more honest and authentic when they are among themselves.