High School with a Higher Purpose

A proud member of the Chesterton Schools Network, Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Victory is a Catholic, classical high school dedicated to forming joyful young men and women who are fully alive in Christ.

At OLV, academic excellence, spiritual formation, friendship, recreation, and the arts are woven into a single, integrated education. Every school day has time set aside for our entire community to attend Mass, where students encounter Christ in the Eucharist, the source and summit of everything we do.

Students enter the Great Conversation through the works of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, St. Thomas Aquinas, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Chesterton, and other great thinkers and writers of Western civilization. They study Scripture and the Catechism, discovering how faith illuminates reason and reason deepens faith. Mathematics and science reveal the order and beauty of creation.

Formation extends well beyond the classroom. Every student draws and paints, sings in choir, acts on stage, delivers speeches, and engages in debate. Through outdoor recreation, hands-on work, prayer, service, and friendship, students learn not merely how to make a living, but how to live well.

Under the patronage of Our Lady and inspired by the joyful spirit of G.K. Chesterton, OLV seeks to form students who know, love, and serve God, and who are prepared to bring truth, beauty, and goodness into the world.