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Saint Raphael is a Preschool-8th Catholic school located in the heart of the Crystal suburbs, serving families from the larger Twin Cities area.
Our mission is to cultivate a family-centered community thatclassically forms students in a faithfully Catholic education,bringing forth joyful witnesses to the love of Jesus Christ.
At Saint Raphael Catholic School we are building joy! We are a
Catholic classical school, grades Preschool-8th grade, located in
the heart of the Crystal community.Our mission is to
cultivate a family-centered community that classically forms
students through a faithfully Catholic education, bringing forth
joyful witnesses to the love of Jesus Christ.
The foundation of a faithfully Catholic and classical education
is the traditional understanding of the human person. This
conviction begins with the belief in universal human nature (that
all men are created equal with a body, soul, intellect, desires,
and free will), and ends with the belief that each human person is
created imago Dei, that is, in the image and likeness of God. Our
school, therefore, takes as its primary goal the student's
formation to understand with wisdom and understanding who they are,
where they are, and where they are going.
We accomplish our mission in partnership with our students'
parents. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear that
"parents are the primary educators of their children." And
similarly, "the role of every parent is to educate their children
in the Catholic faith." Our school is founded on transcendental
values of truth, beauty and goodness. To communicate these values
to students takes an army of living references who respond with
love, patience, faith and wisdom in both good and turbulent
times.
In the classroom, our teachers convey these transcendental
values first by living the conviction that each student is the
likeness of God. Standards of excellence, respect, and dignity are
expected at age-appropriate academic, social, emotional, and
physical levels.
Second, our school has adopted a classical curriculum model
from the Western education tradition. This model stresses reading
and discussing classical texts in a rigorous liberal arts
tradition. The primary years of this model are spent absorbing
facts and systematically laying the foundations for advanced study.
In higher grades, students learn logic, semantics, and
argumentation.
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Quick Stats (2024-25)
Grades: Prekindergarten-8
Enrollment: 169 students
Yearly Tuition: $5,600
Average class size: 20 students
Application Deadline: None / Rolling
Source: Verified school update
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