About

Mission & Identity

Our Mission

To form Men for Others committed to faith-filled lives of service and leadership through a Jesuit, Catholic, college preparatory education.

Our Vision

To manifest God's love for the world by promoting human flourishing within a community of faith and hope that forms leaders in service who are strengthened by a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.

Our Beliefs and Philosophy

We believe all of creation is a reflection of God's loving presence which leads us to lives of generous service. We are dedicated to students of all socio-economic backgrounds who have the potential and desire to maximize their God-given gifts. We strive to create safe, welcoming environments that maximize academic, emotional, and spiritual growth, in harmony with a student's own curiosity, capability, and commitment.

We partner with our students' parents and families to develop articulate and compassionate men with a strong sense of self-worth, a thirst for justice, and a distinct ability to critically consider and thoughtfully discern the complexity of our world. Brophy offers students an atmosphere of rigor and excellence alongside the opportunity to form an intimate relationship with God. It is at this intersection of scholarship and spirituality that we aim to form Men for Others.

Pursuing the Magis

In the fall 2024 President's Report, President Bob Ryan introduced four priorities that will provide "a strategic framework that will guide our efforts toward Brophy's centennial in 2028 and into our second century of existence." Read more here.

- The Rev. Bill Muller, SJ – Vice President, Mission & Identity

Our Jesuit Identity

As a Jesuit school, Brophy inherits the almost 500-year-old vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises affirm the ultimate goodness of the world as created, loved and redeemed by God.

From the foundation of the first Jesuit school in Messina, Italy, the Society of Jesus has focused the goal of education on developing the whole person. The purpose of a Jesuit education, in contemporary language, is to develop leaders who are intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving and committed to doing justice. Religious is understood to mean that the student has a basic knowledge of the major doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church and has systematically examined his or her own religious feelings and beliefs. The commitment to justice recognizes that we belong to a global community and bear personal responsibility for creating a world more peaceful and more merciful.

The goal of the school is to transform its community into “persons for and with others.” This hallmark of Jesuit schools was first articulated in 1974 by Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., the former Jesuit Superior General, and “Men for Others” has become the living motto of Brophy students and alumni. For more on the transformational experience that is Jesuit education, visit the "Faith & Justice" section of the website.