SLS At a Glance

St. Lawrence Seminary is a diverse and vibrant community, drawing students from dozens of countries around the world and from all corners of our own country for nearly 150 years.

There is no one way to describe all that St. Lawrence stands for, other than to visit us and experience for yourself the spirit of the Sons of Calvary. For that reason, the weekend visit is a critical part of our admissions process.

But before you visit, we invite you to watch our video and learn about the many facets of our school.

St. Lawrence Seminary is a safe environment and provides an academic curriculum that prepares young men to pursue a career and succeed at any post-secondary school.

Our faculty and staff, in the context of a residential school, constantly reinforce the thinking and behavior that allows for continual and deepening participation and leadership in the Catholic Church, whether as lay or religious. St. Lawrence Seminary promotes an internalization of the Catholic Church’s moral and ethical values that will motivate students’ behavior long after they leave the school.

St. Lawrence Seminary promotes growth in self-discipline, which enables the making of life choices which go beyond the self-centered norms of much of modern society. An education at St. Lawrence Seminary fosters a gradual awakening of service to and sacrifice for others. Our graduates achieve a level of human social growth that enables them to delay immediate gratification of personal desires, in exchange for a greater good.

St. Lawrence Seminary nurtures an awareness of and relationship with Jesus Christ, which finds expression in the understanding and implementation of Gospel values as the norm for one’s activities. 

As one of our students in the video says, “Whenever a young boy comes here, I believe he leaves here a young man.”

Come learn about us!