Welcome to St. John’s Jesuit High School and Academy! As you get to know our school better through this website, I hope that you will note the vibrant community that is St. John’s Jesuit. We offer outstanding academics and exceptional extra-curricular activities, including first-rate athletics. But as a Jesuit school, we go beyond just academics and activities. We educate the whole person – mind, body, and spirit. Central to a Jesuit education is the spiritual formation that we offer our students.

I’ve always thought that good schools, good Jesuit schools in particular, allow for the possibility of an experience of God. And not just any experience, but a formative experience, something that will affect the students’ lives, fashioned by their own self-reflection and understanding. It happened in the Jesuit high school I attended. They kept talking about us being men for others, men who trusted and depended on God, who loved our neighbors as ourselves. It took a while but I eventually figured out what all that meant.

It is the type of experience that happens here at St. John’s Jesuit. There is a sense of brotherhood, a feeling of being cared for, exposure to new things, and a nurturing of the life of the mind that characterize our community. Often these things are intangible, but they are what affect our students most deeply.

St. John’s Jesuit definitely makes a difference in people’s lives, sometimes in very profound ways. That’s why it is great to be in this ministry of education. We don’t always see the results very quickly but we trust that what we have done will eventually bear fruit. We try to form our students into better people, more intellectually competent, more loving, more religious, more open to growth, more committed to justice. Men for others. Without a doubt, they populate the halls here at St. John’s Jesuit.

In Christ,

Rev. Joaquin O. Martinez, S.J. President