Mission

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The mission of Saint Thomas More Academy (STMA) is to serve families and the Church by helping our students develop the intellectual, moral, and theological virtues. STMA graduates will have grown in wisdom enlivened by charity. The ultimate purpose of an STMA education is that our students know and love God eternally, and serve Him and their neighbors in this life through their personal vocations.

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To this end, STMA provides a rigorous education in the classical liberal arts, the fine arts, and the sciences that is rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition. The source and summit of each school day is the offering of the Mass. STMA is an apostolic community devoted to the pursuit of wisdom through a culture marked by freedom for excellence, the beauty of truth, and friendship in Christ.  

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Our Vision

Students at Saint Thomas More Academy are inspired to imitate our patron in his magnanimity, love of the truth, awareness of his divine filiation, capacity for friendship, and heroic charity. As we help our students grow, we look to three of Saint Thomas More’s educational principles:

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• Virtue must be put in the first place, and learning in the second. If one’s loves are disordered, it is impossible to see reality clearly.

• Every human being has inclinations to truth, goodness, and beauty that are part of the nature of the soul. But these are given as seeds to be developed, and because of original sin, contrary inclinations impede them. The work of education is to cultivate the garden of the soul, planting and nurturing true principles and noble loves, and constantly weeding out pride, ignorance, sloth, and all other vices.

• Children must be taught “to seek not praise, but utility” (“Letter to William Gonell,” 1518). In other words, we do not want our students to be motivated by the desire to impress others, but rather by the sincere desire to serve them.

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