MISSION STATEMENT

Louisville High School is a Catholic school for young women. Guided by the Sisters of St. Louis “to work toward a world, healed, unified and transformed,” Louisville encourages young women to strive for academic excellence and to grow in confidence, integrity and faith, bringing “Christ to all and all to Christ.”  

Central to the philosophy of Louisville is the belief that parents are the primary educators of their children. In support of this, the school and parents work in close collaboration in all aspects of the student's educational process.

PHILOSOPHY

Louisville High School is more than a secondary school; it is a Catholic center for academics within an atmosphere of spirituality, community and outreach.College preparation at Louisville encompasses the processes of personal development necessary for authentic understanding and creative application of knowledge. Areas of personal development include self-identity, responsible use of freedom, and courageous self-expression. 

Parents are the primary educators of their children. By working in cooperation with parents, Louisville aims to help young women understand that they are in the process of realizing their potential. Beyond the objective content of the subjects they study, Louisville challenges its students to look past superficial inquiry. Students are encouraged to strive for excellence in all curricular and co-curricular areas. the focus of education is both inward toward self-realization and outward toward involvement with the wider community.

The vision of interdependence of all life serves as the ideal of a Louisville education. This ideal compels the community to advance toward an enduring reverence for nature, an increasing respect for all peoples and their beliefs, a growing involvement in the quest for human rights and heightened awareness of the roles of women in the world.

Louisville teaches students to become moral decision makers within a free society. Freedom necessitates the awareness of alternatives from whifch to choose and responsibility grows from the acknowledgement of the consequences of choices. This spirit of freedom and responsibility calls the person to risk making choices of integrity in all areas of human experience and to assume an attitude open to change.

Louisville, as a Catholic Christian community, values the dignity and potential of each individual. Students, faculty and parents are members of the community learning and sharing the search for truth. Christianity beckons toward mystery. Recognizing that within this realm there is always something unseen, unheard, unknown, Louisville seeks to remain open to the call of this mystery.


Quotations drawn from the Archives of the Sisters of St. Louis and Abbé Louis Bautain, Founder