St. Jerome Institute (SJI) is a classical liberal arts high school that reinvented traditional education to meet the challenges of our time.
Our curriculum opens the most fundamental questions of the human heart at the very moment when young men and women are longing to understand themselves and their place in the world.
Shoulder to shoulder with great thinkers, writers, artists, and saints, and led by the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition, we embark on a grand journey of academic excellence and joyful self-discovery.
With our teachers as your guides, surrounded by staunch friends, let us lead you on a rich academic and personal adventure.
The wind is rising. Are you ready to begin your own Odyssey?
St. Jerome Institute is the only classical liberal arts high school in Washington, DC, rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Designed from the ground up to form young men and women in academic excellence and mature character, SJI takes an innovative, integrated approach to education that meets the unprecedented challenges of our time. Motivated by our deep love for and commitment to the students who come here to learn, to debate, and to grow, St. Jerome Institute is a celebration of humane education and enduring friendship.
You are more than a human calculator or an encyclopedia of disconnected facts, names, and dates. Your measure cannot be told by how quickly you can answer a hundred multiple choice questions. You are the heir to thousands of years of human civilization, and you are on the cusp of entering into an ages-old conversation. What is the cosmos? What is the human person? How should we live together?
Every applicant to the St. Jerome Institute has a distinct educational background, personality, and family situation. We are attentive to these differences, and take the time to address specific questions or concerns that arise during the application process. Our headmaster personally meets with each prospective student. Over 90% of our students receive financial aid, and most have not previously attended a classical liberal arts program.
