St Raphael School
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Mission Statement
Catholic Elementary and Middle School
About This Cause
At Saint Raphael Catholic School we are building joy! We are a Catholic classical school, grades Preschool-8th grade, located in the heart of the Crystal community. Our mission is to cultivate a family-centered community that classically forms students through a faithfully Catholic education, bringing forth joyful witnesses to the love of Jesus Christ. The foundation of a faithfully Catholic and classical education is the traditional understanding of the human person. This conviction begins with the belief in universal human nature (that all men are created equal with a body, soul, intellect, desires, and free will), and ends with the belief that each human person is created imago Dei, that is, in the image and likeness of God. Our school, therefore, takes as its primary goal the student’s formation to understand with wisdom and understanding who they are, where they are, and where they are going. We accomplish our mission in partnership with our students’ parents. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear that “parents are the primary educators of their children.” And similarly, “the role of every parent is to educate their children in the Catholic faith.” Our school is founded on transcendental values of truth, beauty and goodness. To communicate these values to students takes an army of living references who respond with love, patience, faith and wisdom in both good and turbulent times. In the classroom, our teachers convey these transcendental values first by living the conviction that each student is the likeness of God. Standards of excellence, respect, and dignity are expected at age-appropriate academic, social, emotional, and physical levels. Second, our school has adopted a classical curriculum model from the Western education tradition. This model stresses reading and discussing classical texts in a rigorous liberal arts tradition. The primary years of this model are spent absorbing facts and systematically laying the foundations for advanced study. In higher grades, students learn logic, semantics, and argumentation. Building Joy for 70 Years: Saint Raphael Catholic School is growing! As we celebrate building joy for 70 years, we also welcome our new families and happily announce that we are accepting K-8 enrollments for the 2024-25 academic year. Saint Raphael families are proud of our small classroom sizes, emphasis on forming virtuous character, and commitment to academic excellence. Similarly, our preschool program is geared towards kindergarten-readiness and is offered year-round for all potty-trained 3- and 4-year-olds. Saint Raphael Preschool offers flexible scheduling with 2-5 days a week, and both full-time and part-time programming.