‘Dear young people, do not be content with anything less than the highest ideals!’
- Pope John Paul II

Mission Statement

Regina Luminis Academy is a private, independent school founded, with the help of God’s grace, to assist parents in the education and formation of their children by providing a classical liberal arts education in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and faithful to the Magisterium.

It is the mission of the Academy to promote and nurture the spiritual, intellectual, and physical growth and talents of its students through the time-tested classical liberal arts course of study. Students study and learn in a wholesome and rigorous environment. The Catholic faculty integrates the Magisterial teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church throughout the curriculum.

In partnership with their families, students are taught to be effective Catholic citizens and leaders. They are taught to know, love and serve God and neighbor, aware of their ultimate purpose in life—eternal happiness with God in Heaven

Students who are not Catholic may be admitted to the school with the explicit understanding that all students must participate in all classes and activities in the school. The entire curriculum is permeated with Catholic philosophy. Prayer and daily Catholic devotion are an integral part of the school’s day.

The Aim of a Classical Liberal Arts Education

Classical Education attempts to recover and to make available for today’s students the wisdom of traditional educational models reaching back to the Trivium of the Middle Ages. The medieval Trivium—Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric—describes the course by which a child acquires mastery of a subject. In the Grammar stage (elementary school), a child focuses on learning “facts”—vocabulary, spelling, multiplication tables, historical dates, etc.—and exercising the memory by learning poetry by heart. In the Logic stage (the middle school years), a child explores the relations between facts—for example, the causes of historical events—and masters the rules of logical reasoning. In the Rhetoric stage (the high school years), the focus is on excellence in both written and spoken expression. The goal of classical schooling is a graduate who knows a great deal, who understands what he knows, and who can communicate persuasively with others.

The pursuit of excellence in education has long had the goal of producing men and women intellectually and emotionally able to enter into, and affect, the world around them.The classical term to refer to the skills necessary to produce such well-formed individuals is “liberal arts” – arts that, when mastered, make one free.

“In every subject…the aim of liberal arts education is to give the student the principles of the subject studied in such a way that he will be able to make right judgments about that area of reality. That is why this kind of education is called ‘liberal’ education. Liberal means ‘free’; a liberally educated man is a free man because he is able to direct his own life and is not dependent upon the judgments or understanding of others.”
Laura M. Berquist, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum