DREXEL HIGH SCHOOL
Classical Education in the Catholic Tradition
Drexel High School opened in Fall 2023 in Belmont, North Carolina.
Student applications are currently being accepted for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years.
Join us in forming students to Know the Truth, Love the Beautiful, and Do the Good!
Our Mission:
The mission of Drexel High School is to educate students in the classical liberal arts and to assist in forming wise and virtuous Christians, who gladly follow the teachings and Tradition of the Catholic Church so that they may fulfill their vocations unto salvation.
OUR PILLARS:
Classical
To be a classical school is to love old things, and to be discerning with new things. A classical school loves old books, old music, old paintings, and old ideas and beliefs, however it does not love them because they are old but because they are true, good, and beautiful. With a deep commitment to classical education, the Drexel curriculum and classroom instruction and school culture is centered around the seven liberal arts of rhetoric, logic, grammar, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music. These disciplines orient the student in history, space, the cosmos, and created order. Through classical instruction, students inquire into the ideal, seek to practice virtue within the community of friendships and mentorships, and consider deeply what it means to be wise men and women.
eucharistic
Drexel is deeply committed to the Eucharist, the source and summit of our Catholic faith. Each day at Drexel begins with students participating in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Other liturgical and sacramental opportunities, such as the Sacrament of Confession, midday prayer, and pious devotions are normative aspects of the school’s life. Combined with our curriculum’s fidelity to the Church’s Magisterium taught by faithful Catholic educators, all contribute to an educational process that promotes a Catholic worldview formed by faith and reason, designed to form young men and women to become intentional disciples of Jesus Christ and love him with all their heart, soul, strength, and mind..
“If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.”
- Saint Katharine Drexel