St. Jude's School is unlike any other private school. We do not want students to permanently leave the publicly funded system. Our students attend only for the time needed to develop the essential skills necessary to be more successful in the publicly funded system. The average stay is two to three years. They then return to the system better able to achieve than ever before. Due to this uniqueness, students from Guelph, Cambridge, Stratford, Brantford, and Hamilton travel daily to St. Jude's. In the three decades since its inception, St. Jude's has educated more than one thousand day students and well over three times as many tutorial students. These students have returned successfully to the publicly funded system and have continued their education at the college or university level.

St. Jude's is an Academic School for intelligent students who want to be taught how to achieve to their potential, and St. Jude's has a long and successful history of helping students with learning disabilities. St. Jude's continues to provide a curriculum that is highly structured and teacher-directed emphasizing the basic academic fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. Most parents perceive this educational emphasis as necessary for all students. Our students are those who benefit from a good back-to-basics education with phonics, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, homework, tests and examinations, and report cards with marks.

St. Jude's is a nondenominational, co-education, private, academic day school, registered by the Ministry of Education. The school's name is taken from "Saint Jude Thaddeus". Jude Thaddeus is known by many as a provider of hope for the future. St. Jude's School provides an educational advantage to students so their future can be bright and full of successes.