Through daily personal engagement with children and their families, we are promoting, preserving, and building upon the civilization the Church has given us over the past two millennia. While growing in the love of what is true, good, and beautiful, students are formed and edified by daily Mass, weekly adoration, and frequent Reconciliation.Ĭulture is the lived reality of a community. Having ministered to the west side of Grand Rapids for over one hundred years, Sacred Heart’s ongoing commitment to academic excellence flows from the sacramental life of the Church. Our school exists to help families form the minds, hearts, and souls of their children into the heroes and saints they were made to be. Everything we do keeps this goal in mind. And as our Catholic faith teaches, Truth is an incarnate person: Jesus Christ. We are here to help young people know and love the Truth.
As partners in the formation of your children, we appreciate the responsibility parents have entrusted us with and remain steadfastly committed to safety, virtue, and excellence in everything we do. We expect our classrooms to be extensions of the home, animated by the same spirit of love hat recognizes the child’s individual dignity and needs. We recognize that parents are the first educators of their children and that a school exists to serve the family in that vocation. We accept no state or federal funding-even for lunch or technology programs-and consider our work one special way our parish lives out the works of mercy. Sacred Heart Academy is an apostolate of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in the Diocese of Grand Rapids and is dedicated to remaining faithful to the Magisterium, independent of external coercion by secular influences, and attentive to the best pedagogical practices.
Of the hundreds of growing classical schools in America, only a handful are Catholic and among these are many “independent.” Only a few operate under the guidance and support of their diocesan bishop. Sacred Heart Academy is an apostolate of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish…
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