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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How Catholic is it for a non-Catholic student?  (do those get in? I feel like I know some families whose kids are there who aren't Catholic but not sure how much of an anomaly they are).  Also wondering how welcome kids of same sex parents feel.  thx![/quote]

Non Catholics get in and it is accepting of same sec parents but it is a Catholic school and doesn’t apologize for it and I hope it never waters itself down. [/

SJC parent here. We are not Catholic. I’ve sent my sons through SJC after middle school at a local Independent school and early elementary in MCPS (RHPS, NCC, and BE). Both of them were attracted to the community at SJC. The staff take seriously the mission to know every kid by name, and this year in particular they have been focused on social and emotional health since day 1, given the pandemic.

One of our boys is agnostic. We had discussions with him about not needing to agree with everything, but showing respect. He is enjoying the theology class. We feel strongly that learning religious history from the perspective of multiple religions is a very valuable part of one’s education. We know there are students from Protestant, Episcopal, Jewish, Muslim, and non-religious families at SJCHS, and my oldest son told me his friends of different faiths were all comfortable there. The majority of his friends are Catholics of varying degrees of devoutness.

We’ve been in the SJCHS community since 2016 and my DH and I have both noticed how they are constantly innovating - constantly making fine improvements to the school. For example, they used to assign counselors by grade, but now it is done so that each student has the same counselor for three years, before moving on to the highly specialized college counselor. I could go on…Bottom line is, the first time we heard the welcome spiel in ‘16, we were impressed, but a tiny bit skeptical, having just gone through Independent school recruiting season. This fall, when we heard a similar speech again, it really struck us by how true Mr. Mancabelli’s words were. [/quote]

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