Families of All Faiths are Welcome at Saint Peter Catholic School

While we are a Catholic school, students do not need to be Catholic to attend.  On average, one in three of our students are not Catholic.  We teach the Catholic faith in our classrooms while welcoming perspectives from other faiths.  We have been blessed to have had the opportunity to teach children of a wide range of faiths, including outside of Christianity.  

Faith is an important cornerstone for many families.  We hope the perspective of one of our parents, Greenville native Christy Cole, will help shed some light on why she chose our Catholic school for her daughters. 

For our family, we feel it is up to the parents to educate their own children in their personal Christian beliefs. While Saint Peter Catholic  School does have Catholic religion classes, I have not encountered anything as a student who attended here myself, or as a parent of two middle schoolers that conflicted with our basic Christian faith. We explain to our children each denomination--Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Catholics, as well as other faiths--all have their own traditions, songs and prayers. In our Methodist tradition we believe we can go to Jesus without an intermediary like Mary or the priest.  However,  we ask others to pray for us, like our bible study teachers and prayer warriors. The main area of concern for our family is that our children are taught about Jesus’s sacrifice for us and our own acceptance of him as our Savior. Saint Peter Catholic School has always respected each student's choice of denomination while teaching and fostering the biblical  attributes of a Christian. 
--Christy Cole
​SPCS Alumni and Parent
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