​Beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, Saint Joseph School and St. Francis Xavier School—both of Wilmette, Illinois—combined as part of the parish merger introduced through Renew My Church. Both parishes and schools enjoy rich and vibrant traditions, and together as one united Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish celebrate over 250 years of excellence in education in the Catholic tradition. Today, we are Saints JFX where Early Childhood learners are loved and nurtured on the St. Joseph Campus, and where K-8 students are thoughtfully supported and appropriately challenged on the St. Francis Xavier Campus.

​Today, we are Saints JFX where Early Childhood learners are loved and nurtured on the St. Joseph Campus, and where K-8 students are thoughtfully supported and appropriately challenged on the St. Francis Xavier Campus.

​A combined faculty of talented teachers and staff work collaboratively with the goal of knowing and honoring every child for their many gifts and ensuring that students leave our doors equipped to make a difference in the world. Our combined Catholic school family honors the rich traditions of both school campuses while embarking upon a shared future that promises growth, deepening faith and a joyful learning adventure for all students and families.

Saints JFX recognizes the vital link between Catholic learning community and the long term vibrance of parish life. We encourage engagement across school and parish life through Mass attendance and volunteerism rooted in parish ministry. Together, we collaborate as a parish family to meet and exceed the needs of our students as learners, as people, and as the gifts from God that we know them to be. The unique sense of family, the way our children are known and loved by their teachers, the support we receive from fellow parents, and the gift of an education grounded in faith are all defining characteristics that have compelled us to prioritize Catholic education for our children.

​The unique sense of family, the way our children are known and loved by their teachers, the support we receive from fellow parents, and the gift of an education grounded in faith are all defining characteristics that have compelled us to prioritize Catholic education for our children.

On the St. Joseph Campus, school leaders are committed to building community under the umbrella of excellence in Early Childhood. Students are introduced to the joy of learning and encouraged to develop in both confidence and curiosity as budding students. Our school experience is marked by friendship, learning and growth. On the SFX campus, we seek to infuse loving challenge and increased opportunity for differentiation in our classrooms. We encourage personal responsibility, accountability, and a service-minded view of the world and our place in it. We strive to prepare students for the rigors of high school by creating a “safe” place to take risks, make mistakes and learn from them, and identify opportunities to lead. Fresh perspectives, unique gifts, and an openness to growth are prized and celebrated. Our school community works hard to collaborate, innovate, share resources, and promote opportunity across both Campuses. Faculty meet in community for shared professional development, and coordination of schedules and tools has yielded opportunities to extend enriching initiatives to the great benefit of all learners.

We emphasize an awareness of gratitude for the ways school leadership, faculty, and parents have stretched, sacrificed and given generously of their time and talents over many years in service to Catholic community. Flowing from this generosity, we enjoy rich and diverse programs and services, and our kids are cared for and loved by some of the finest in the Archdiocese. For this we are thankful! In all we do, our families, teachers and staff come together to promote community and to ensure we are leveraging our abundant gifts and resources to the benefit of each and every student. We are called to embody a warm, supportive, loving and inclusive spirit of welcome to all who join us. We look forward to a promising future for our united community that’s brimming with possibility and action.

​We are called to embody a warm, supportive, loving and inclusive spirit of welcome to all who join us. We look forward to a promising future for our united community that’s brimming with possibility and action.

Saints JFX is a vibrant and prolific learning community. In recent years, services and supports have been added to our toolkit to ensure students reach their full potential as curious learners and compassionate leaders - including partnerships with Rush Neurobehavioral Center, the Alliance for Early Childhood, and Northwestern University's Center for Audiology, Speech, Language and Learning. We hold ourselves to a high bar with regard to our expectations as leaders, teachers, and learners. Above all, we remain committed to joy-filled opportunities to know, honor, support, challenge, and love our kids.

We look forward to a bright future for Saints JFX as we continue to grow and develop as a dual-campus learning community blessed with resources, motivated teachers, and talented teams dedicated to the unique learning needs of Preschoolers on our St. Joseph Campus and K-8 on our SFX Campus.