Curriculum

Peru Catholic School was established through the consolidation of three existing parish schools in Peru; St. Joseph, St. Mary, and St. Valentine.  At Peru Catholic, we offer an education from the Pre-school through 8th grade. Curriculum is developed through the Diocese of Peoria and is recognized by the state of Illinois thru its non-public School Recognition Program

Our Curriculum is Based on the Following:

  • Strong Moral & Faith Development
  • Daily Religion Classes
  • Reading
  • Science
  • Math
  • English
  • Social Studies
  • Technology 1:1 Chromebook
  • Computer Instruction
  • Spanish Instruction
  • Music Instruction
  • Physical Education
  • Intramural Basketball
  • 8th Grade Algebra Program

Technology at PCS

Thanks to the generosity of our PCS families and community, we have had great success in building our technology fund, allowing us to build the needed infrastructure to take our students deeper into technology in the classroom.

Over the last five years, following our technology plan, we have been able to provide 1:1 Chromebooks for First through 8th grade. The addition of chromebooks have been the key to our success in preparing PCS students for the years ahead.

Since the introduction of Google Classrooms in 2016, our school has been successful at creating a paperless environment, with formative and summative assessment presented on a digital platform.

Utilizing Google Suite for Education, IXL, Teacherease, and more, our school has been adapting to the everchanging technology demands to prepare our students for their future ahead.

Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader has been a proven powerful tool that has helped us develop reading skills, improve reading comprehension, and provide our students with the ability to raise their reading scores. This tool is used with Grades 2nd-8th grades.

2nd & 3rd Grade - Student's in these grades take a 10 question quiz. It is used an an incentive to read more books, and a tool to observe a student's reading ability

4th - 8th Grade - Students at this level take 15 question quizzes on books. Each book has a reading level & point value.  The total points that the student has accumulated by the end of the quarter are then given a grade on the SR grading scale. This grade is averaged into their reading grade at the end of the quarter.