St. Thomas High School

A Transformative Classical Catholic Education

OUR MISSION

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School exists to form disciples of Jesus Christ. Educating students in the Eucharistic culture and classical intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church, they are led to encounters with the transcendental Good, True, and Beautiful. In wonder, confidence, and virtue, students are prepared to engage our broken world for the glory of God, the good of others, and for their own sanctification. 

“Christian education should be an initiation into a universal spiritual society – the community of the civitas Del 

– Christopher Dawson 

VISION

As a Catholic school, we pursue an education integrated by the Catholic Faith as it has been handed on and lived in Christ’s Church, pointing the students to love and wisdom. 

As a classical school, we are rooted in the sources of the Western Tradition and pursuing a vision of transcendent reality by way of the 7 Liberal Arts. 

With an integrated approach, we are united by a shared vision, much as the soul unites the human body. Our teachers form a community of friendship, supporting each other in the work of passing on the worship, ideas, and habits of a Catholic culture. 

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” 

– Proverbs 9:10 

 

“In pursuit of the horizons – the horizontal things – have you failed to raise your eyes and mind and heart up to the stars, to the reasons for things, and beyond, as Dante says at the top of the tower of his poem: “To the love which moves the sun / And all the other stars?”” 

-John Senior 

Curriculum Overview

A rigorous four-year curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic Faith

Hallmarks of St Thomas the Apostle High School

Daily Mass and monthly confession 

Daily prayer grounded in Ignatian Spirituality Integrated Catholic liberal arts curriculum 

Small class sizes facilitating discussion 

Immersive missions – formation through meaningful work during the school day 

Boys’ and Girls’ Household formation, sport, and fellowship 

Intersection of the arts and spirituality – Iconography, Schola 

THE MASS IS OUR HEART

Four days a week, students participate in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the source and summit of everything that we do at school. No greater worship and opportunity for the formation of the students‘ hearts can be found than in the Christ’s Perfect Sacrifice and Holy Communion with His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. 

THREE PILLARS OF OUR WORK

Veritas – pursuing the Truth with love and rigor. 

Pax – ordering the day in the peace of God, forming students in the habits of contemplative silence and prayer.

Bonum – loving what is true and excellent in an incarnational way, a way of living the Faith, a culture. 

Join the Adventure

“Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.” Pope Saint John Paul II

Come to St Thomas and Join the Adventure.

“There is a need in our Ann Arbor community for a specifically Catholic Classical effort. ” Fr. William Ashbaugh

For enrollment inquiries, please contact the school office: msauter@sta2.org or

734-769-0911

St. Thomas the Apostle School expanding to Tenth Grade Fall 2023 

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School