Welcome to Our Lady of the Pillar Academy
A Joyfully Catholic, Classical Grade School (K-8)
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Classical Education is nurturing wisdom and virtue through the study of the True, the Good and the Beautiful in order to develop fully formed human beings.
Our mission is to build abundant lives on the San Mateo Coastside through Catholic classical education
Our students will understand and embrace the truth of why they exist, and serve God now in this life.
Faith
Our students will learn not merely what to think, but how to think through classics of Western thought.
Reason
Virtue
Our students will grow in the four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice.
Abundant Life
We make it our mission to prepare our students to triumph over the materialism and despair that pervade our culture and to accept our Lord's offer to have life and have it abundantly.
Joyful Learning Environment
G.K. Chesterton said, “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it”.
We were made to be happy. Let’s not forget it!
“The education of children is, in the first place, the responsibility of their parents. Parents have the right, and the duty, to choose a school which corresponds to their own convictions”
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Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 2221