One of the most important aspects of the curriculum of St. John Paul II High school is the use of an integrated approach to education. Integrated education functions to teach students that their studies are not segmented or compartmentalized throughout the course of the day, but that their studies form and inform one another. To be able to study mathematics, art, music, and literature in tandem with one another helps students to learn each of the subjects more naturally and more deeply.
Our curriculum creates integration points both horizontally and vertically—that is, their studies are interconnected all throughout their freshman year, but also the things that they learn in their earlier years connect directly to their studies in their time as upper classmen. In this way students are able to engage in the ongoing dialogues of the great thinkers and are given a chance to participate in that conversation more thoroughly.