Commitment to Hospitality

Saint Martin de Porres High School is committed to being hospitable to the community. Annually, we welcome the community to various events. Every year the sophomore class hosts a Health Fair, in which the community is welcomed to learn about the signs, symptoms, and treatments of many major health problems. We also invite various community organizations to provide information and services to the community, all free of charge.

We also welcome prospective students to be a Lion for a Day. As shadows, eighth grade students are invited to our school and are able to experience the day in the life of a Saint Martin de Porres High School student.

A large part of Saint Martin's family is our corporate work-study sponsors. They provide our students with jobs as well as provide major funding to our school. To thank them we host a Sponsor Appreciation Luncheon. Our sponsors are welcomed into the school, take student lead tours, and experience the Saint Martin atmosphere.

Habits of Mind and Spirit

Saint Martin de Porres High School is committed to the Habits of Mind and Spirit. We show our dedication in many different ways. In our curriculum each grade level is given a theme in which the students learn care for the community, world, self and earth. The theme is reflected in the learning, projects, and performance of the students. Throughout, the course of the school year, students are challenged to take part in caring for the community and many have helped by growing an organic garden, cleaning up both our neighborhood and that of neighboring communities, and taking part in service immersion trips.


Our students are also committed to social justice and have taken part in initiatives to stop abortion, close the School of Americas, and raise awareness of domestic violence and human trafficking.


Although Saint Martin de Porres High School is committed to helping to community, we also care for our family. Both the students and faculty are open to guests and are hospitable to all. On a daily basis we welcome students looking to become part of our family, potential donors and sponsors. Annually, Saint Martin de Porres High School welcomes our family and community for events such as our Health Fair, Unity Fest, and Open Houses.


Please share some of your experiences if you have taken part in any of Saint Martin’s initiatives at Habits of Mind and Spirit.

Social Justice

Committed to the value of life, many students advocate vigorously so that American laws respect human life from conception to natural death. Saint Martin students have participated in right to life demonstrations both in Washington, DC, and in Cleveland. This same concern for the respect of life is reflected when Saint Martin students advocate for the closing of the School of the Americas in Columbus, GA. Latin American military personnel are trained there. After their training, some of them have been know to return to their own country where they torture and kill their own countrymen.

Care for the Community - Tomato

Study, care for the community, service, and spirituality are all intertwined in the life of the Saint Martin community. This unity is reflected in this picture in which the colors of the tomato picked from the Saint Martin garden match the banner in the school's chapel. What poetry!

Care for the Community - Community Garden

One of the unique aspects of Saint Martin is that what students study in class also gets put into service to the community. In that way, learning has a practical application almost immediately. A good example is the Saint Martin de Porres Community Garden. As students study about biology and ecology, they also care for a community garden. The produce of their work is not for them only. It helps provide food for people of the Saint Martin neighborhood.

Care for the Community - Blood Drive

One Saint Martin 12th grader took the theme of "Care for the Community" to heart. Moved by the pressing need for blood in the community, she singlehandedly mobilized faculty, staff and students to organize the blood drive. Students and teachers signed up to assist at the blood drive and to give blood. On October 21, over 30 Saint Martin community members and people from the community donated blood to give life for the community. More than a dozen Saint Martin community members escorted blood donors during the process.