The Houses at Chesterton Academy provide real, tangible community within the larger school, giving students the opportunity to take ownership, fulfill the call to leadership, and cultivate the ideal conditions for virtue.
Within their Houses, students build meaningful relationships through service projects on Ora et Labora days throughout the year, competitions, celebrations, and prayer.
The Houses are named for the four saints and Doctors of the Church (two from the West, two from the East) who stand beneath the Chair of St Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Saint Ambrose, patron of House Ambrose, was the bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century. He promoted the rights of the Church in relation to the imperial state and is counted as one of the four original Doctors of the Church. He was also the teacher of Saint Augustine. He is well known for writing a great number of hymns that are still prayed daily in the Divine Office, including the well known Te Deum.