Independent Catholic School
Accepting Applications for 2026/2027
Open House: Saturday, January 31st from 2PM - 4PM
Kindergarten
Grades JK-SK
Part time Montessori and bilingual enrichment
Elementary
Grades 1-6
Full time bilingual Charlotte Mason inspired program
High School
Grades 7-10
Full time bilingual Classical Liberal Arts program
The Educational Programs at Jérôme Lejeune School are rooted in the Catholic tradition and values each student as a child of God. We believe that education is an experience that springs from an encounter that engages our freedom and solicits our responsibility, making life truly human.
Our unique approach to education encompasses the search for human happiness and fulfillment grounded in truth, justice, beauty, freedom, responsibility, the authority and loving witness of the educators, community, and critical reasoning.
Our purpose is to accompany each student on their journey to reach their full potential. To embrace the fact of life as a vocation, and to educate their heart to an awareness of the divine givenness of the world and all that is in and beyond it.
“The first concern of a genuine and appropriate educational method is the EDUCATION OF THE HEART of man, just as God made it...”
~ Servant of God Msgr. Luigi Giussani, The Risk of Education
Who is Jérôme Lejeune?
Venerable Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the genetic cause of Down Syndrome. He courageously defended the dignity of every human person and is a heroic witness for our times. For more biographical information on the life of Jérôme Lejeune, click here.
About
Jérôme Lejeune School
Founded by Sophia Hyginus McConkey, Jérôme Lejeune School is a charitable work of members in the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation and collaborates with the greater community in offering this educative proposal, with the blessing of The Most Reverend Archbishop Marcel Damphousse, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall.
Jérôme Lejeune School follows the educational pedagogy of Fr. Luigi Giussani and began in 2018 as a Homeschool Co-op for primary aged students, located at St. George's Parish in Westboro. In 2019, Jérôme Lejeune School moved to St. Stephen's Anglican Church and operated as a Homeschool co-op for a second year. In 2020, Jérôme Lejeune School was put on hiatus and remained closed for 3 years. On September 14, 2023, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, Jérôme Lejeune School re-opened offering an enrichment program for elementary aged students at the Couvent Saint-Jean-Baptiste and was validated as a private school by the Ontario Ministry of Education. In 2024, the school moved to its current location at Paroisse Saint-Bonaventure and started offering full time programs in September 2025.