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 to 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 Augustine, the bishop of Hippo in North Africa, was both a philosopher and theologian, as well as an influential church leader. He deepened the Church’s understanding of original sin and related teachings on divine grace, free will, and predestination, as well as the theory of the just war. Even as a pagan, he was widely known as a passionate orator; and the passion of his many sins were only outmatched by his passion for God after his conversion.