Who We Are

Queen of Peace Catholic School is a PreK-8 school with excellent academic programs and more than a century of faith-filled tradition. Our school is a mission of Queen of Peace parish in Cloquet, Minnesota, a landmark parish of the Duluth Diocese.

A quality education is one of the most important gifts a child can receive. It is where their talents are focused; their character is nurtured; and their souls are transformed through genuine encounters with truth, goodness, and beauty. Our small class size, rigorous curriculum and strong moral guidance provide the instructive experiences a maturing child needs to succeed on meaningful terms during this life and to hold unwavering hope for life eternal.

Our classrooms are led by caring, mission-minded teachers, who are committed to delivering a truly liberal education that is inspired by supernatural vision, founded on the Christian view of the person, animated by communion and community, imbued with a Catholic worldview, and sustained by a clear witness to the good news of Jesus Christ. For generations, our alumni have gone on to distinguish themselves as models of confidence, competence, and character in our community and beyond. We continue to build this legacy today.

Finally, Queen of Peace Catholic School invites our students to discover the wonder of life. Without wonder there is no creativity and no inventiveness. Without wonder there is no adventure and no discovery. Without wonder there is no hope and no faith. Our prayer is that our children are guided on the roads they travel not by fears, but by wonder. Because wonder leads to worship. And worship leads to wisdom. There is no better place to discover, explore, and grow in wonder than at Queen of Peace Catholic School. 

We prepare students for learning with deference to the trivium – the entry-point of an integrated and Catholic liberal arts education. We teach the fundamentals – reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, language, catechism, and science, and then we build on the fundamentals in later grades with a study of the deeper logic of each core subject and by introducing classic literary texts. The study of great books gives rigor and clarity to a student’s engagement with the world around us and with the world of his or her own imagination, following on the paths and reflecting upon immortal characters that have been approved by generations.

Along with planting the seeds of the intellectual virtues, our school also has as its end the fostering of the moral virtues. Here also, the work of the parents forms the foundation which schooling completes. Teachers encourage and promote the good habits that parents have inculcated, deriving their authority from the consent of the parents for this end. Without the work of parents, however, the school’s ability to help the young to virtue will be faint and feeble.