We at Our Lady Queen of Peace will strive to explore and initiate innovations in education and our faith which will prepare the students to take their place as leaders in a changing and challenging society. 

Christ is the reason for this school
The unseen, but ever-present
Teacher in its classes
The Model of its faculty
The Inspiration of its students

Our Lady Queen of Peace was established to provide a Christian environment for students, staff and faculty alike that promotes both excellence in education and a spiritual faith formation. As a pastoral instrument of the Church, we intend to respond to the needs of the whole person and to support the spiritual, intellectual, physical and social development of each student. It is also our intention to challenge the students to work to the best of their abilities and to live as Christian examples of faith to one another and to the extended community.

In partnership with our children's primary educators, their parents, our faculty will work daily, through example and teaching, to develop in our students the desire to grow in their religious knowledge and beliefs, as well as in their academic knowledge, and to apply these to their daily life situations and interactions. 

Our Lady Queen of Peace provides an academic curriculum, from early childhood through the 8th grade, solidly based in the skills and competencies needed to prepare the students to take their place in a changing and challenging society. The curriculum includes basic classes as well as foreign language, computer skills and religion, which enables the students to broaden their horizons by exploring new subjects and developing new skills. We are committed to maintaining excellent teacher-student ratios, with our outstanding faculty of dedicated, passionate, and state certified teachers in all subjects.

The titles “Our Lady of Peace” and “Queen of Peace” are among the most popular designations to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout Christendom, and especially within the Roman Catholic Church. In art, the Blessed Mother is represented under these titles as holding both a dove and an olive branch – recognized symbols of peace.

Several stories accompany these titles. In one account from South America, tradition maintains that in 1682, several merchants found a heavy, abandoned box on the shore of El Salvador’s “Mar de Sur”, which they were unable to open. Believing it to contain a treasure of great value, they carried it to the city of San Miguel to find a way to unlock it. They tied it onto the back of a donkey, intending to bring it to the local civil authorities, but as they passed the parish church, the donkey stopped and lay on the ground, refusing to move. In front of the church, they were suddenly able to open the box, which contained an image of the Blessed Mother holding the Christ Child. At that time, a bloody war raged in the local region, but when the warring parties heard of the abandoned box, they immediately put down their weapons and discontinued the fighting. Because of this incident (and others that followed to maintain the peace), this image of Mary was given the title “Our Lady of Peace”. Pope Benedict XV authorized the crowning of this image on November 21, 1921.

Our Lady Queen of Peace also has roots in Europe. When Peter Coudrin founded the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in France during the French Revolution, Our Lady of Peace was chosen to be the patroness of the Order. When members of this Congregation founded the Catholic Church in Hawaii, they consecrated the Hawaiian Islands under the protection of Our Lady of Peace. The Cathedral in Honolulu dedicated to Our Lady of Peace is now the oldest Roman Catholic Cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

The Epifanio de Los Santos (EDSA) Shrine in the Philippines marks the site where Our Lady of Peace appeared in 1986 to prevent what would have been a bloody military attack on quiet protesters, and the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, is the largest house of worship in the entire continent of Africa. Additionally, there are literally hundreds of parishes, schools, hospitals and even cemeteries throughout the world – and especially in Ireland and the United States – that have honored Mary under the titles Our Lady of Peace, Queen of Peace or Our Lady Queen of Peace.