Our Mission: Inspire boys to explore and achieve their greatest potential

Northmount School is a Catholic independent boys preparatory school (JK–8). Northmount’s supportive environment helps boys achieve their greatest potential, emphasizing academic excellence, character development, values and service, which lead to a meaningful, balanced and fulfilling life.

Philosophy

Northmount School provides a sound, stimulating and coherent education to prepare boys in their development as responsible citizens. The School helps each student to reach his full potential, develop critical thinking skills, self-discipline, a respect for others, and a strong moral character. We recognize that the parents are the boys’ first teachers and thus we enter into a partnership between parents, students and the School to establish a rich and vibrant community life.

History

Northmount School was established in 1990 by a group of parents who wanted to create a school in the Catholic tradition that would provide character formation while focusing on academic excellence. The formative idea was that a boy does not reach maturity when he can look after himself only, but rather when he can look after others. Though academic excellence was a centerpiece for the founders, there was a clear recognition that there were other schools where academics were also championed quite successfully. Northmount would be different. The graduates of Northmount would be more than talented academics; they also would be young men of character on the road to honourable manhood. This would be at the heart of the school’s mission.