Jesuit Vision

Jesuit education attends to students’ intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual development. The small class size at WJA (12 students) enables teachers to know their students individually and provide them with an intimate, year-round learning environment.

WJA’s academically rigorous curriculum is based in the educational philosophy of Jesuit founder, St. Ignatius Loyola: a belief in reflection, discernment, scholarly excellence, and personal responsibility, as well as the importance of being "Men for Others."

St. Ignatius articulates this philosophy in the words below:

"Love ought to manifest itself in deeds more than in words … love consists in a mutual sharing of goods... Hence, if one has knowledge, one shares it with the one who does not possess it; and so also if one has honors or riches. Thus, one always gives to the other."
- St. Ignatius Loyola