Welcome to Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School, a Catholic community building 21st century leaders in the Ursuline and Marianist traditions.  Whether you experience the Viking Village in our classrooms, on our athletic fields, in the North Collinwood and Euclid neighborhoods that have always been a part of VASJ and in which VASJ continues to play a significant role, or in our online neighborhood that keeps together our alumns living around the world, that description holds true.

A CATHOLIC COMMUNITY…

We are a school that embodies today’s Catholic Church, rich in the racial, cultural, economic, and other diversity found broadly in the Diocese of Cleveland that is our home.  Education plays an important role in the Catholic Church, and all that we do builds on the foundation of living, teaching, and sharing our faith.  Our students, alumns, parents, and faculty take pride in being part of the Viking Village, a concept colored by this commitment to faith that goes beyond connection to a school to show a deeper commitment to each other that we practice and celebrate.  Just as any community is part of a larger society, the VASJ experience shows how being productive members of the Viking Village means being constructive members of the Kingdom of God, manifested in countless ways:  from volunteering at the Hospice of the Western Reserve, Euclid Hospital and other neighbors on the northeast shores of Lake Erie; to our pre-engineering students traveling to New Orleans to apply their acquired skills practically to help rebuild the hurricane-stricken region; to the annual mission trip to El Salvador taken by students and faculty chaperones; to celebrating over 25 years of work in East Africa by alumnus  Fr. Marty Solma ’66 amid his appointment as Provincial-Elect of the Marianist Province of the United States. 

…BUILDING 21ST CENTURY LEADERS…

While our educational roots in Cleveland stretch back to the 19th century, to be competitive as families choose where to send their students for high school we must provide them with a top-notch 21st century education.  In addition to traditional disciplines, our curriculum features the global awareness, digital and entrepreneurial literacy, higher order thinking, problem-solving skills, cooperative and project-based learning, lifelong learning, continuous improvement, and other key features that meet the needs of education in the 21st century.  We recognize that quality education produces not just a degree, but a skilled graduate who can compete with peers in the global marketplace in college and in the world.

…IN THE URSULINE AND MARIANIST TRADITIONS

For 20 years, VASJ has existed as the merger of two great traditions, the Ursuline Sisters and the Marianist Brothers who both began educating Cleveland’s youth in the 1850s. All that we are and all that we do build on our foundation in the Ursuline Core Values and the Characteristics of Marianist Education.  Their union on our campus and in our community not only gives us purpose, but also makes us unique.  Explore our website further to learn more about them and the Ursuline and Marianist charisms.

From one era to the next, the Viking Village has seen change and consistency:  change that adapts from one generation to the next to provide a top-notch education that produces graduates able to compete in the global marketplace, and consistency throughout the years to steep our graduates in the enduring Christian values that impel them to make a difference in whatever part of the world their lives take them.

I invite you to peruse our web site to learn more about VASJ, and come visit the Viking Village campus to experience even more.

All the best,

Brian R. Menard

President

Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School