Saint Stanislaus High School

The mission of Saint Stanislaus, a Catholic boarding and day school for young men, is to form each student to Gospel values by nurturing his spiritual, academic, and physical growth in a place of sanctuary structured to embody the charism of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.

Education according to the tradition of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart is holistic, rooted in religious values, structured through friendly discipline, nurtured by personal attention, and committed to academic excellence. Saint Stanislaus offers a junior and senior high school curriculum designed to help students achieve academic success in college and success in life. Faith development and character formation, along with sports, extracurricular activities, and service, contribute to the total experience at Saint Stanislaus. Through supervision, discipline, and structure, the residency program gives particular emphasis to personal attention that adjusts freedom and responsibility to each student’s capacity for trust.

The Religious Institute of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart is founded on three core values that inspire and direct the school community of Saint Stanislaus. We conduct our school based on the belief that God loves us to the point of willingly suffering because of His love for us. Jesus loves us to the point of offering himself on the cross, and yet His love is not contingent upon our response. In the face of our failures, which draw us away from Him and even our overt rejection of Him, His love for us remains constant, unconditional, and all encompassing.

Through explicit instruction, we consciously reflect with students on the abundance of God’s unconditional love as expressed in the concept of His pierced heart and seek ways to translate that love into specific action. Guided by this belief, we actively seek ways to discover, understand, and compassionately respond to the many social, cultural, and economic circumstances that wound our students.

Respect for the inherent dignity of each individual is an essential, constitutive value for us. We seek to embody in our personal lives and in all interactions with young people the firm confidence in God’s loving, providential care for all, regardless of problems, difficulties, and challenges. We demonstrate our willingness to see the potential in all students, and we seek opportunities to praise and affirm the goodness of each person and to encourage the positive choices that he makes. We demonstrate our commitment to surround students with every possible guidance in order to help them form good habits through frequent encouragement, availability to provide assistance outside of class, and a willingness to offer multiple opportunities for students to improve.

Every parent and good educator know that demonstrating love to young people always involves setting limits, communicating clear and reasonable expectations, and providing accountability to ensure that the young person meets these expectations. It is perhaps the most unloving thing to indulge a child’s every whim and desire. Doing so would simply guarantee that the child would remain self-centered and never achieve his or her potential. Therefore, a critical component of the holistic perspective in our tradition is a disciplined love that seeks to direct, motivate, correct, and support each young person along his life journey.

We view academic excellence as the development of each student to the maximum of his potential. We commit ourselves to this goal as a means of helping students become the whole and complete people that God created them to be. To accomplish this, we establish a demanding curriculum that emphasizes command of the basics; we organize well-prepared and interesting classes, and continually adapt our curriculum and methodologies to meet changing needs.