The Sophia Academy House System exists to further the mission of the school.

• First, the House’s help integrate academic and character formation, providing positive motivation towards virtue and academic development. 

• Second, our House system helps enhance community life through integrated grades and special events. 

Within these houses, students have opportunity for fellowship, leadership, service, healthy competition, and mentoring by faculty members and older students, ensuring that students know each other and build relationships across grade levels in the regular life of the school community. Each year, new students are inducted into Houses, where they will remain members throughout their Sophia Academy experience.

The House System also provides the basic structure for the formal student leadership. Each House has a House Prefect who both leads the House and works together with leaders from other houses, faculty, and administrators to oversee different activities. Teams of additional student leaders from the Houses collaborate to organize and execute inter-House activities—things like socials, service projects, and competitions—as well as to lead intra-House mentorship and fellowship.

By providing this structure, the House System encourages students to bring their desires, ideas, and talents into the life of the school. The Houses allow for real responsibilities, real participation, and the possibility for real failure. Through healthy competition and shared goals, students learn to work together, solve problems, initiate new ideas, and participate in meaningful traditions.