Bishop Amat Memorial High School is a four-year co-educational Archdiocesan Catholic high school. The mission of the school is to form a faith-filled community and to provide a quality education that addresses the needs of a culturally and academically diverse student body. The comprehensive instructional program flows from a college preparatory curriculum that empowers students to recognize their potential and to meet educational and life challenges in the future. The school, working in partnership with parents and the community, promotes education in Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge, by preparing students to embrace the Gospel values, to respect themselves and others, to become life long learners, and to contribute positively to the community.

Philosophy Statement

Bishop Amat High School is a four-year co-educational Archdiocesan Catholic High School. The school seeks to form a community of faith-filled people committed to Christian truth based on the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The principles of Christian life outlined in the Gospel, interpreted by the Catholic Church and taught at Bishop Amat High School, invite followers to a lifestyle rooted in a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and extending out in loving service to others. Education to this lifestyle, while the primary responsibility of parents, is shared by faculty, staff, and students, as all seek to grow in personal awareness of their call to bring the presence of Christ to our modern world.

The school motto calls for education in Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge. While it is important that our students experience these values in the academic content of the school, they must above all see them present in the lives of their parents and teachers. Seeing living witnesses who cherish the values they seek to acquire, our students will more readily embrace them for themselves.

The call to Goodness involves all aspects of one's lifestyle. It primarily involves daily prayer through which one comes to know personally the tremendous love of the Father. It includes a willingness to be like Jesus in sacrificing oneself for others, aware of their supreme dignity as human persons. "If anyone wishes to follow me, he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." (Mt. 16:24) Goodness also involves being empowered by the Holy Spirit to join with others in forming a community in service of others and in concern for the physical, social and spiritual environment in which we live. In all aspects of student life, but especially through service and campus ministry, Bishop Amat High School tries to instill goodness as the binding force of the "Amat Family."

The importance of Discipline and a disciplined life style follows from the call to goodness. The underlying purpose of the disciplinary code is to help students master the internal forces of their personalities so as to enable them to submit themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Thus obedient, they will be responsible and accountable members of the human family. School regulations such as the distinct dress and grooming regulations are part of the call to self-respect, self-discipline and personal responsibility. The aim of Discipline is not conformity, but authentic freedom to be all that God has created us to be.

The Knowledge taught at Bishop Amat High School reflects the varied needs of our student body, a diversified campus that includes many academic abilities. The multicultural student body itself provides an atmosphere of learning that enables the students to affirm their own cultural traditions and to be enriched by the other cultures which they encounter here. The Knowledge taught at Bishop Amat High School flows from a college-prep curriculum which prepares students for continued instruction in institutions of higher learning. However, the curriculum is designed with the flexibility to help all students of varied academic abilities to reach their full potential. The instructional program centers on a solid foundation in the scholarly disciplines within a Christian perspective, and along with the co-curricular and counseling programs, gives emphasis to the spiritual, personal, social and physical development of the adolescent.

A willingness to participate in this call to a Christian lifestyle is a pre-requisite for admission to Bishop Amat High School. The entire school program seeks to instill a sense of values, integrating knowledge of God and His plan for creation into the entire curriculum of the school, and assisting students in finding their identity in Jesus Christ by giving their lives to Him.

The mission of Bishop Amat High School is to integrate Catholic values into all areas of the life of the adolescent, values which are essential for the lifetime pilgrim journey of a follower of Christ. In His teaching, Jesus calls us to be leaven, salt, and light...the leaven which raises the values of society, the salt which gives the flavor of faith to the world, and the light which reveals the presence of Christ alive in His people.