Our Mission
The mission of St. Sava Academy is to provide its students with a challenging and innovative educational program that will guide them through life as respectful, resourceful and active participants in our society.
St. Sava Academy achieves its mission by:
- Encouraging excellence in all academic and personal pursuits
- Creating an educational environment to inspire each student to strive for intellectual growth and creativity which is complimented by a concern to achieve moral and ethical values in life
- Developing unique educational experience that offers dual language setting
- Support a community where students feel safe and free to explore their cultural and religious beliefs
- Promoting programs to develop strategic and thought-based decisions
- Developing and retaining quality faculty and staff
- Cultivating independence, leadership skills and courage to succeed
- Sustaining a strong Orthodox faith-based environment that will help guide and direct students actions, thoughts and relationships
- Developing the financial and physical resources to support the Academy’s needs
Our History
Originally founded in 2001, as an Orthodox Christian partnership between Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral and Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, both of Chicago, the collaboration lasted five years. The advantageous partnership enabled St. Sava Academy to flourish and we extend our warmest wishes to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and the Socrates School community for a successful future. With Socrates Greek School’s relocation, St. Sava Academy has built upon the roots of this promising foundation.
History was made on August 28, 2006, when St. Sava Academy opened its doors as an independent Serbian Orthodox parochial school. Students, parents, faculty and clergy full of love, joy and excitement, crowded the school foyer, as the academic year began. Forty students, clad in navy blue and white uniforms, lined up by grade with their teachers, as the clergy read prayers and led the opening benediction.
St. Sava Academy proudly bears the distinction of being the first dual-language Serbian Orthodox parochial schools for students in pre-school through eighth grade in the United States and Canada.
