St. John's Jesuit High School

5901 Airport Highway

Toledo, OH 43615

20 Reviews

School District
Grade

6-12
Type

private

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on January 30, 2025

They should abolish the SENIOR PROJECT! Holding graduation hostage for kids who have met every requirement and excelled academically is ridiculous. If your parents don't have special connections in the community or with SJJ alum, good luck getting your kid to complete this asinine project and graduate on time. For the $56,000 we pay you'd think this would not be the case, but sadly it is.
Submitted by parent on June 11, 2019

Excellent. Saint John provides an amazing environment for students to learn and serve their community. Our son loves SJJ and so do we. His grades are great and SJJ has taught him how to manage his own work load along with playing sports and doing service. We couldn't be happier that we chose Saint John's for our son.
Submitted by parent on June 11, 2019

SJJ has been great at helping my sons challenge themselves to be a leader while showing compassion towards those of lesser means.
Submitted by parent on June 10, 2019

Excellent! We are now looking at colleges and the help with this process is more than what I expected. SJJ is worth the money!
Submitted by parent on May 04, 2019

Compared to friends at our local high school it was much more effective for college prep., develops good study habits for college bound kids. Diversity. Core Values.
Submitted by parent on February 22, 2019

I sent my three sons here! Academy and high school are second to none!
Submitted by parent on July 20, 2015

My son has grown academically, spiritually and athletically by attending St. Johns Jesuit. The school promotes leadership helps develop critical thinking skills and offers some of the best college preparatory curriculum in the area. My son has truly grown and matured into A Man for Others.
Submitted by parent on July 16, 2015

St. John's is truly focused on a Christ based education, educating the boys on what it means to be Men for Others. The graduates of St. John's will be the next leaders of our communities and businesses.
Submitted by student on October 28, 2014

I was very happy with my experience at St. John's Jesuit. The education of the whole person is unparalleled in the Toledo area, from the academics and athletics to the fine arts and Christian service. SJJ is truly a brotherhood, where everybody is cared for and supported, no matter what your interests are.
Submitted by student on September 05, 2014

Saint John's does teach a few good values, making it really feel like a brotherhood, and one could thrive very well here... depending on what teachers you have. Every year they hire in sub-par, brand new teachers. Most of whom, are not very good at their job. Which I'm not knocking the teachers, but a private high-school with tuition like SJJ's - You would think they would be able to find more capable employees. During my Junior year English class alone, we had four different teachers. The few who have been teaching there for awhile happen to be magnificent teachers. Even they complain about the dysfunctional administration, and overall disorganization of how the school runs. While I've met some great people here, I would recommend a public school over saint John's. Or a school who doesn't set up flat screens, and ping pong tables for the single week 8th graders happen to visit. It is not all fun and games, and this school's education is not worth the tuition.
Submitted by parent on May 05, 2014

Awesome school caring I don't know why parents complain it's honestly been great to me and my family yes I understand the money is an issue besides that it's awesome
Submitted by parent on March 21, 2014

My son went their for 4 --after four years , knowing what I know about SJJ I wish I would of just keep him in Anthony Wayne ,
Submitted by parent on January 23, 2014

I have two sons attending St. John's Jesuit. My opinion of this schools academics, spiritual culture, teaching staff and administration is nothing short of outstanding. I could not be more pleased with the education provided at SJJ.
Submitted by parent on January 22, 2014

St. Johns is a wonderful school. Academically excellent. The staff in the academy is excellent and the Principle is kind and very caring. As I read some of the reviews here I wondered what school they were talking about! Academic challenge is good for your brain. Yes, it is a financial strain but remember this, there is only one thing you can give your children that cannot be stolen, cannot be broken, and that is their education. I would love to see more Catholic orthodoxy. It used to be that Catholic schools were clearly Catholic. Parents understood that if you sent your child to a Catholic school they would get a Catholic education. Non Catholic families that sent their children to Catholic schools made that choice knowing their children would be exposed the Catholic faith in books, classes, stories, church, prayer, and they had no problem with that. Now, Catholic schools water down the Catholicsim =( If I sent my child to a Jewish/Muslim/Baptist/Greek orthodox I would expect them to be exposed to those faiths. How could you not know a school was Catholic when it was named SAINT Johns =) Good school, good staff, good place to be a young man.
Submitted by parent on August 12, 2013

The school is not recommended because it lets you give most of you money away to the SJJ community or Christian service departments.
Submitted by other on July 16, 2013

I wanted to return to school but the school days are long because they started early at the beginning and ended very late for the 2013-2014 school year. They should reduce the number of school days so the students can get good scores on homework, quizzes, tests, projects, etc. Otherwise I will leave that nasty school. Thank you!
Submitted by parent on July 16, 2013

I did not know that St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy was a Roman Catholic school, also not many people in school are catholic, they should not allow the non catholic students to attend churches, yet they are still letting everyone going to church. To be very honest, the instructors at the theology department are very evil, completing at least 45 hours of community service for underclassmen and getting a senior project at upperclassmen. They should waive the senior project and the service hours spent. In addition, their school ACT is below 6-7 other schools. How disappointing!
Submitted by other on June 12, 2013

This school is not a good school. Longer school hours and days than last year. It has very hard courses, teachers don't describe the concepts well, very uneducated staffers in the A+ learning center that lead to student failures. House group is awful. Student bullying and harassment even if student does not do anything wrong. Food fights in cafeteria. Hallway jams overcrowded. No ethical sportsmanship. Other bad as described. Looking forward to going St. Francis next year.
Submitted by parent on June 06, 2013

As a parent responbility in sending my son to a better, more enriched catholic high school providing a excellent and qualified education. This school has an intention to be caring more about the money than the education and to the gentleman itself. The tuition is increasing annually from year to year, for example, from 2009 to 2012, there was an annual forecast increase of 4-5% (about $500 more than the previous years ahead). After paying more and more money to go St. John's. As of late 2011 they sponsor an iPad program that helps with academic purposes and storing textbooks, but it hindered the students as they played games, used social networks, and continued to use hard copy textbooks not on the iPads. My son knows the fact that iPads in St. John's is necessarily a way to intimidate or deceivingly send inappropriate information to others or go off task in specific info. I don't recommend St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy to anyone for its expense of money, loss of foundation, and undesirable care (Ex. My son bullied in house group). It is a terrible school to go unless you want to pay more money for the school or to become uneducated.
Submitted by parent on May 16, 2013

This school is terrible. The academy principle is awful he assumes on what he sees and you know what happens when you assume, also he is barely at school. There is only one or two cool teachers that care about the students. The teachers care about the money not the kids. I only sent my son there for one year and would advise anyone not to send their child there. The worst $10,000 I have ever spent.