From the Principal

Principal Rebecca Bogard

The 2017-2018 school year is full of tremendous celebrates 30 magnificent years of serving students Education. Our community has embraced a study Catholic faith, beginning with “hope.” This virtue as we weathered one of the most destructive experienced. Our Saint families demonstrated together to support those impacted by Hurricane These actions of love and generosity are what of saints. We are fortunate to have so many friends and family St. John Paul II with donations of all kinds in order to fulfill our mission. Last school year, Annual Fund Drive to date thanks to your donations totaling over $500,000. In this everyone to take part in order to meet our goal.

We remain committed to ongoing excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts listen to God’s will. The school has launched a new strategic plan which paves the to grow in excellence and to meet the various needs of each and every one of our of tradition and innovation. StJPII continues to be a leader in Catholic education Archdiocese as well as the first to receive recognition as a National Blue Ribbon school in all areas and earn an average of 20 academic scholarships to the local Catholic Just this last year, two of our young men were recognized as Ignatian Scholars at Stake testament to the formation our students receive at StJPII that prepares them for the and beyond.

St. John Paul II Catholic School (StJPII)’s theme for the 2020-2021 school year was “Growing in Faith and Virtue.” We were determined to be together again, because we needed to share in the joy and love of our Catholic faith with our saint community. Throughout the summer, we worked hard to get our campus ready and school started on time, albeit with many Covid-19 precautions in place. By the second semester the entire student body was back on campus! We truly embraced our motto “Be not afraid...” and trusted that the year would turn out great, which it did! The Lord is with us all the time, and so we were intentional about recognizing how blessed our StJPII community truly is. Throughout the year we implemented a new program which encouraged us to embrace our Catholic virtues and live like Saints. In May, we awarded the first “Tom Bevans Award of Catholic Virtues” to a precious kindergarten saint, thus reminding all of us that everyone can make a big difference when we focus on living as Jesus did!

As we close this 30th year, we look to the virtue of “faith,” challenging us to follow the Lord with all our hearts, hopeful that he is in control and guiding us on our journey. I ask that you all continue to pray for our special school and our mission that we strive to fulfill each day.

In Him we Trust,

Rebecca Bogard, Principal