MISSION STATEMENT

Louisville High School, inspired by the Mission of the Sisters of St. Louis:“to work toward a world, healed, unified and transformed,”is dedicated to providing a wholistic education based upon the Gospel. Louisville encourages young women to grow in confidence, integrity and faith,and challenges each to bring “Christ to all and all to Christ.”  

PHILOSOPHY

Louisville High School is more than a secondary school; it is a Catholic center for learning within an atmosphere of spirituality, community and outreach. Although the learning primarily centers on college preparatory courses, it expands to include levels of education, which call forth the full potential of every student. College preparation at Louisville encompasses the processes of personal development necessary to authentic understanding and creative application of knowledge. These areas of personal development include self-identity, responsible use of freedom, and courageous self-expression. 

Education at Louisville evolves from the central idea that the primary educators are the parents. By working in cooperation with them, Louisville aims to help students understand that they are in the process of becoming who they are to be. We strive to instill in the students the awareness of fundamental meanings and realities beyond the content of the subjects they study. Administration, faculty, and staff are committed to striving for excellence in all curricular and co-curricular areas while developing ways to deal with falling short of the ideal. 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 toward which education at Louisville moves. This ideal compels the community to advance toward an enduring reverence for nature, toward an increasing respect for all peoples and their beliefs, and toward a growing involvement in the quest for human rights.  Permeating the many aspects of the interdependence of all life is a pervasive consciousness of the evolving roles of women and men in society, separately and in relation to each other. The vision requires a responsible and courageous commitment.

Freedom and responsibility, congruent realities, form the context for education at Louisville. In this environment, a person discovers expanding dimensions of free will and learns to take responsibility for nurturing and exercising the process of making personal decisions. Freedom emanates from the awareness of the acknowledgement of the consequences of choice. 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 Christian community, values the dignity and potential of each individual and seeks to develop this potential holistically. All members of the community -- students, faculty and parents -- are learners sharing in the search for truth. The entire community strives to fulfill potential, reaching into the realm of the infinite. 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