Academics

Catholic schools have historically offered a proven formula for success. Our schools build upon that foundation, using leading edge educational strategies along with time-honored techniques.

FIVE ESSENTIAL MARKS OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  • Guided by a supernatural vision
  • Founded on a Christian anthropology
  • Animated by communion and community
  • Imbued with a Catholic world view throughout its curriculum
  • Sustained by Gospel witness

Source: The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools


AT GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  • K-12 curriculum mapping ensures delivery of all critical learning material
  • Professional Learning Circles preserve optimum teaching strategies

The endeavor to interweave reason and faith, which has become the heart of individual subjects, makes for unity, articulation and coordination, bringing forth what is learned in a school a Christian vision of the world, of life, of culture and of history. – The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools