Regina Academy students consistently score in the 85th to 99th percentile on nationally standardized tests of academic achievement.

Why? The rigorous classical curriculum at the Regina Academies is focused on guiding students to an honest relationship with the Truth, who is Jesus Christ. Through that relationship, children learn they have a God-given purpose, and that they are a special and unique creation with gifts to be used in service to others.

That is not to say we are a church posing as a school. In the Catholic tradition, the incarnation is the foundation of a classical liberal arts education. School should prepare children for life, and life as a Catholic sees Christ in all things. He should be our guide and motivation for all of life’s decisions and activity. 

We as human persons are an inseparable unity of body and soul, so it is senseless to think that education of the mind can be separated from formation in faith. One informs the other. That is why a Regina education is a “Joyful Exploration of Faith and Reason.”

We form students in faith and reason to sharpen the intellect and strengthen the desire for the good. That’s the only way we can be truly free and not enslaved to contemporary addictions like technology, radical individualism, materialism, or scientism. They fail at every level to bring true freedom and happiness to human persons.

Formation of the mind and spirit in wisdom and virtue gives content to belief, informs the emotions, and strengthens the will. It inspires wonder, leading to a deeper and more committed love of God, and an understanding that love of God must be completed, as Jesus said, in love of neighbor.

• Ordered to the true, the good, and the beautiful. It provides confidence that we have the ability to know truth and communicate it to our peers.
• Integrated. For example, students studying medieval history also read literature from the same period appropriate to their grade level. They study scholasticism in religion class, reflect on what they are learning in writing classes, and may even discuss the development of science during the same period. In art and music class, they will learn about medieval art and music and maybe even sing some Gregorian chant to reinforce what they are learning in their Latin class. Consequently, their knowledge of the world is comprehensive and not fragmented.
• Rigorous. In addition to the usual academic subjects, students study Latin, Greek, and logic as a way of helping them learn how to think.
• Natural. It follows the natural stages of childhood development.
• Purposeful. In the Catholic liberal arts tradition, education only has value to the degree it enables the child to fulfill his or her calling and identity as a child of God. They learn to prayerfully discern their unique purpose that God has in mind for them.