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Please read a sampling of what our community is saying about their experience at
St. Laurence Catholic School.TESTIMONIALS FROM PARENTS
- St. Laurence Catholic School felt like home as soon as our daughters began attending. We love the welcoming and caring faculty, staff, and supporting priests. While receiving a strong foundation in their Catholic faith at St. Laurence, their students are growing, not only academically, but spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically. This is very important to us since we want our children to have a well-rounded foundation that will carry them into their adult lives. We are confident that SLCS will leave a positive, lasting impression on our daughter’s minds, hearts, and faith. We are happy to have made the decision for our children to attend this amazing school.
– Rafaela Linn- St. Laurence is an amazing school for both of my young sons not only do they excel academically, they have a strong and true relationship with God. The support and love from the teachers and community is truly special. We are blessed to be part of this wonderful blue ribbon school. - Nora Guerra
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We feel so blessed to have our daughters here at St. Laurence Catholic School. Not only are they receiving an exemplary education, but they are learning how important their Catholic Faith is. How God is at the center of everything we do! Enrolling them at SLCS has been the best decision we have made for our girls and for our family! - Jorissen Family
- As an active parent in our community, I know how important education is to create pathways to success, however, the foundation SLCS provides at a religious level gives our kids the best of both worlds. Catholic foundation along with quality education for all children is essential. At SLCS teachers are nurturing and loving while providing the structure and guidance my kid needs. It’s a privilege to be part of this wonderful community where the trinity of parent, child, and educator makes us what we are today! -Nora Sessions - Parent and Board President
- My family and I have been parishioners at St. Laurence for about 12 years. I am here to invite you to an upcoming Open House at our Parish school, St. Laurence Catholic School, on Saturday, Jan. 27th from 3:00-4:30 in the school gym. But that is really starting at the end of the story – what I would like to do is start at the beginning and tell you a little more about me and my family and our interaction with the school and how I feel it has helped grow our family’s faith and instill a strong Catholic Identity in our sons. -Tix Cox, Parent and Board Member
- While we are constantly impressed by the rigorous academics, the innovative tools and techniques, the safe and nurturing environment, and the emphasis on executive functioning and independence, for us it all comes down to the vibrant religious and moral character of St. Laurence. It is very important to us that our children receive a strong Catholic education, and St. Laurence excels at this. On those rare occasions when we start to daydream about the vacations we could take or the home improvements we could make instead of paying tuition, one of our daughters will come home and say something that simply astounds us and demonstrates the depth of religious and moral thought they are engaging in every day at school. The religious component clearly extends to every facet of life at St. Laurence and becomes part of everything our children do and say and the decisions they make. Our hearts have been touched in profound ways time and time again by our children’s words and actions because of the religious education they receive at St. Laurence. -Shawn St. John, Parent and Board Member
- My husband and I have two sons. We are active in the school and parish. I serve on the School Board as the Treasurer. I serve on the Board with fellow parents but also with active parishioners who do not have children at the school but wanted to be involved. We were not always this involved. Before my husband and I had children we attended Mass…sometimes. My husband was not Catholic so we had an easy, built-in excuse. For several years we continued down that path. But after attending an Open House at St. Laurence Catholic School, My husband and I felt drawn to enroll my oldest son in the school when he was entering kindergarten. With his kindergarten class, my son started attending the weekly Friday school Mass, so I began attending too. There I fell in love with mass. I would sit in the back of the church and listen to Fr. Drew’s homilies…in his charming way he was not only teaching the students but teaching me and setting a fire in me for our faith. So the family and I started attending mass every Sunday.
The school has helped lead us to the path we walk today. I am so grateful for our school and parish for the blessings they have given us and for helping to prepare our kids to succeed academically and also to meet life’s challenges. The school truly lives by their mission statement of being an instrument of the church that educates and develops the whole Christian person in mind, body, and spirit. - Tish Cox - Parent and Board Member
- We moved to Sugar Land three years ago and are grateful that our daughters were accepted into the third and fifth grades. We love the faculty and staff and are thrilled to support this dynamic learning environment. - Bruce Yepsen
- St. Laurence Catholic School is an amazing school and extension of our religious community. We love the staff and all they do for our children. - Stephen Montoya
- We love our SLCS! Feels like home, a beautiful blessed family! - Gemma Ospino
TESTIMONIALS FROM ALUMNI
As a 2010 graduate of St Laurence, I can honestly say that it totally prepared me for the material I saw in high school and was instrumental in my development. I would totally recommend it to anyone applying. Best middle school in Houston! - Carl Christian
We moved to Sugar Land 8 years ago from Lake Jackson, TX where our children attended a small but wonderful Catholic school. One of the key tenants of that school was to teach our children to know, love, and serve God and by doing so we would prepare them for not only life in this world but also for the next. We were concerned that we would not find a village as adept at helping us to raise our children in our Catholic faith, but we have been so blessed by the St. Laurence School and Parish community at nurturing the faith lives of our children as well as our own. Beyond being the village that shares our Catholic faith values, St. Laurence has high academic standards and offers many leadership and extracurricular opportunities to help our children reach their full potential. Ultimately we believe St. Laurence has prepared our daughter very well for the rigors of the Catholic college preparatory high school that she now attends. While there are certainly sacrifices to send our kids to Catholic schools we can’t think of a better investment knowing that it is providing the educational foundation and values that they will carry with them throughout their lives. - Jackie deGroot, Alumni Parent and School Board Member
TESTIMONIALS FROM STAFF
It is a blessing to come to work every day and share my faith and talents with the students. Our mission to educate through the trinity of parent, child, and educate is extremely important me and I am so grateful to be a part of this community. -Kathy Strandburg-original staff member from 1992
TESTIMONIALS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS
As a St. Laurence parishioner, I was invited to attend Discernment Information night almost three years ago. The bulletin announcements jumped out at me week after week but, since I didn't have any children attending SLCS (nor did I have any children at all), I initially dismissed the nudging. It wasn't until a friend of mine asked me if I would consider learning more about the school board, that I realized that nudging was a call to potentially serve. Sure enough, the Lord's plan for me was to serve SLCS on the school board, simply as a parishioner, for 3 years (even without being a parent)! The SLCS school board has become my most precious ministry and the reality is that you don't need to be a school parent to have a vested interest in and heart of compassion for each precious soul that is blessed to be educated here. Caring about children and what is best for them is the only prerequisite for the Holy Spirit to work through you to support the Pastor and school Principal, whose primary goal is to offer an unmatched education in the setting of our Catholic faith. SLCS grows the future of our parish and there is no better way to contribute to our future than to devote time and energy to the young heart & minds of our parish school. - Christina Hinojosa, Parishioner and School Board Member