About Our School

St. Francis Xavier was established in 1975 to serve the families of the local Catholic Parish of Runaway Bay. The current enrolment is 637 students.

St Francis Xavier supports the mission of the Holy Family Parish by offering quality co-education within the context of Catholic values and traditions. As such, there are genuine efforts to establish a true community of faith and learning– one which recognises the uniqueness and dignity of the individual and operates on the gospel values of respect and care for one another.

 

Through its curriculum and courses, its celebration and worship rituals, its cultivation of the aesthetics and its Religious Education Programme, the school attempts to give witness to the essential wholeness of the human experience - social, moral, physical, spiritual and intellectual development.

The world in which we live is everchanging, and our teenagers are going to be exposed to social pressures and choices that did not exist to the same extent at other times. At St Francis Xavier, we aim to provide an eight year programme, from prep to year 7, that is designed to better equip our young people to confront the issues of their day in the light of the gospel values.