Letter From the President

Dear Dons Family,

I am pleased to present the Strategic Plan that will guide Cathedral Catholic High School for its next three years, 20222025. My sincere thanks to all those on our leadership team whose time, research, creativity, input, wisdom and hard work brought this plan to fruition.

Some might argue that society’s increasing secularization poses significant challenges to Catholic education. However, events over the past two years (the pandemic to be sure, but also the flawed political, societal and human responses to it) make an equally compelling case that God and Christian precepts are more relevant and vital to education than ever before. Many who experienced the past two years of failed “solutions” to the world’s problems long for, and recognize as even more precious, an education model focused not only on intellectual development and excellence but also firmly grounded in faith, love, morality, compassion, freedom, discipline and other traditional Christian values.

In this pivotal time, Cathedral Catholic’s Strategic Plan will help protect, sustain and enhance the school’s unsurpassed academic reputation, its financial health and its quality instruction focused on the intellectual, moral and spiritual formation of its students.

Generations of Dons have confirmed that attending Cathedral Catholic has had a profound, permanent and positive impact on their lives. Cathedral Catholic High School does not take its 83-year legacy in San Diego for granted, and it will, through open inquiry, prudent stewardship and sound governance, ensure that its rich legacy continues for years to come.

Roll Dons,

Kevin J. Calkins, Ph.D.

President