Ateneo de Iloilo - Santa Maria Catholic School

As a COLLEGE PREPARATORY school, it offers a program of studies which develops the students their basic skills and abilities for higher education. Its learning methodology is characterized by a highly personalized approach which enables the students to learn how to learn.

As a FILIPINO school, it offers a program of studies approved by the Department of Education. Its educational program seeks to promote a healthy nationalism in its students, an appreciation of their Filipino cultural heritage, a love and loyalty to the Filipino nation and an awareness of their duties and responsibilities as citizens of the Philippine Republic.

As a school with a distinctive CHINESE-FILIPINO character, it seeks to develop in its students an understanding and appreciation of the Chinese cultural heritage; to foster a harmonious integration of this heritage with Filipino values and traditions; and to become an effective instrument for the integration of the ethnic Chinese-Filipino into the larger community which is “the Filipino people.”

As a CATHOLIC school, it offers an educational program that is animated by Catholic belief and doctrine. Accordingly, the thrust of individual formation, the values fostered, and the attitudes engendered are Catholic in orientation and concern. Primary among its concerns is to cultivate in its students, faculty and staff a lively response of faith to the person of Jesus Christ.

As a JESUIT school, it seeks the formation of each individual as a product of a truly Christian humanistic education and discipline, with a bias for the pursuit of academic excellence. It equally seeks to promote Jesuit concern of “serving the faith which does justice”, manifesting a special concern for the poor and seeking to form “men and women for others” in the image of Jesus Christ, the “Man for others”.