Mission Statement

Saint Edmond’s Academy is a Catholic, independent school for boys in Wilmington, Delaware. The Academy provides challenging, structured, skills-based, and advanced programs in a caring, nurturing, and safe environment in the unique educational tradition of the Brothers of Holy Cross. This educational tradition focuses on students’ responsibility, independence, self-esteem, integrity, and sense of community, in accordance with Catholic values and integrating contemporary thought and theory on the development of boys.

Philosophy

Students today are the future. As we shape this future through the teaching of our students at Saint Edmond’s Academy, we are concerned with leading students to understand and to live Christianity; to become informed and active citizens; to be in a nurturing environment of collaboration, supported by a family spirit; to be respectful of personal, social, racial, political, religious, gender, and linguistic diversity; to participate in the life of the Church and daily dialog with faith and knowledge, faith and experience, and faith and culture; to maintain standards of excellence which are measurable; and to maintain a global perspective.

We instill these values and teachings through five areas that build the foundation of our approach, our beliefs, our curriculum, and our environment to create the unique place that is Saint Edmond’s Academy. These five areas are Responsibility, Independence, Positive Self-Image, Building Community, and Integrity.

Intellectual development of students is captured in the motto of Saint Edmond’s Academy: Caritas per Disciplinum, which means “love through knowledge.” Saint Edmond’s Academy believes that intellectual development proceeds by fostering self-discipline and by encouraging the growth of the learner’s rational thinking within the context of a Christian community. Father Basil Moreau believed in the development of the whole student through academics, physical and social activity, music, art, and spiritual growth. It is the Academy’s Whole Approach combined with its philosophy that create the fundamental building blocks of learning.