Aquinas Academy

Specialties

Aquinas Academy is a Catholic and classical learning community. We strive every day: to live in keeping with a vibrant and authentically Catholic Faith; to form our minds and hearts to seek, recognize, and love whatever is genuinely beautiful, good, and true; and to discern and embrace our unique vocations.

History

Established in 1991.

Aquinas Academy first opened its doors in 1991 with nine students in a rented two-​room school house on Schlie Road in Menomonee Falls. Although currently a grade school, Aquinas Academy was originally a high school called Hillcrest Academy. In 1993, the Board purchased our current 68 acre campus on Good Hope and Pilgrim Road and in 1997 as we opened our current building, our name was changed to Aquinas Academy.

Countless Contributors

In the spring of 1990, when Mr. and Mrs. Hundt discerned that Almighty God was asking them to open a school with authentic Catholic formation and a classical curriculum, they certainly had no idea what the future held. With great courage and faith in God’s providence, and a great deal of help from various benefactors, volunteers, and clergy — like Fr. Thomas Moylan of the Legion of Christ, Fr. Franz Jordon, Fr. Daniel Sherman, Fr. John Harding, S.J., and especially (then Father but now) Bishop Don Hying — along with countless prayers, the Independent Sch