Academics & Student Life
Known. Challenged. Prepared.
Traditional foundations for a modern world.
At Saints Peter and Paul School, education is personal. Students learn in small, often multi-age classrooms where teachers know their strengths, recognize their needs, and encourage them to grow.
Grounded in the Catholic faith and strengthened by a close-knit school community, SPPS combines strong academic foundations with the knowledge and skills students need for the modern world.
Attentive Instruction
Strong Foundations. Attentive Teaching.
SPPS students receive a well-rounded education in religion, reading and language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, technology, and the arts. Instruction follows the curriculum standards of the Diocese of Boise while allowing teachers to respond to the students actually sitting in front of them.
Our multi-age classrooms create natural opportunities for review, enrichment, cooperation, and leadership. Students learn at an appropriate level, receive individual attention, and benefit from belonging to a classroom community that is not defined only by age.
Strong Foundations
Students build durable skills in reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, religion, and the arts.
Individual Attention
Teachers know their students well and can respond to their strengths, needs, and readiness.
Multi-Age Community
Most classrooms bring ages together, creating natural opportunities for cooperation, review, enrichment, and leadership.
Purposeful Technology
Enough Technology—Without Too Much Screen Time
Technology has an important—but intentionally limited—place at SPPS.
Our new computer lab helps students develop the competence and confidence they will need in high school, college, and the workplace. At the same time, screens do not dominate the school day, and instruction is not delegated to algorithms.
Technology remains a tool in the hands of teachers—not a substitute for attentive instruction, strong foundational skills, worthwhile books, hands-on learning, or human relationships.
Catholic Formation
Faith at the Heart of the School Day
Catholic formation is woven into daily life at SPPS. Students pray together each day and attend Mass twice each week. They celebrate major feast days, pray the Stations of the Cross during Lent, and receive age-appropriate religious instruction, including Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.
Students have opportunities to participate more intimately in the Mass through altar serving and sacred music. Catholic students may also opt into sacramental preparation; participation in the sacraments is not required for enrollment or attendance at SPPS.
Through prayer, worship, service, and the example of their teachers, students learn that faith is not simply another subject. It is a way of seeing and living in the world.
The Whole Person
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Education includes the formation of the whole person. Athletics, music, art, activities, service, and student leadership give children opportunities to discover their gifts, practice discipline, work with others, and contribute to their community.
Because SPPS is a small school, students are known and needed. Older students have meaningful opportunities to lead, younger students benefit from their example, and children of different ages learn to see one another as members of one school family.
Outcomes reported for SPPS graduates tracked from 2008 through 2020.
Books & Resources
Library and Learning Resources
Readers Grow Here
A strong education depends upon access to good books. The SPPS library supports classroom learning, independent reading, research, and the development of lifelong readers.
Diocesan Curriculum
Families can review the curriculum guides used by Catholic schools throughout the Diocese of Boise.
Come See SPPS
Experience the Community in Person
A website can describe our classrooms, but the best way to understand Saints Peter and Paul School is to experience the community in person.
Meet the teachers who will know your child, see how faith and learning belong together, and discover what a small Catholic school can offer your family.