Academics
At St. Ignatius we create an environment for students to achieve academic excellence in a Catholic setting. We would even go so far as saying we expect excellence. We have the resources to support those expectations and continued results to prove our students achieve among the highest academic ratings in the state.”
St. Ignatius School offers a comprehensive program for students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Up through fifth grade students learn in an elementary school environment where they are together with the same teacher for most of the day. Teachers are supported with an instructional assistant in kindergarten, and with a reading specialist in grades one through four. The reading specialist offers a skills-based, phonetic approach to reading that allows us to tailor reading instruction to specific students’ learning styles.
At sixth grade, students transition into St. Ignatius’ Junior High program, where five core teachers share the instructional responsibilities for grades six through eight. The program is departmentalized, allowing teachers to focus their instruction in areas of personal expertise. In the math program, there are two tracks of math classes per grade, with advanced students taking high school-level Algebra One over the seventh and eighth grade years. In Junior High, students rotate to their teachers, adding the responsibility of organization and self-management.
In all grades, kindergarten through eight, these core teachers are supported by a full-time physical education program, music program, technology program with new, state-of-the-art computer lab installed in 2005, art literacy and library programs.
At St. Ignatius, we hold our students to high academic standards and support them throughout the learning process, allowing students to achieve to their fullest potential.
