Bellarmine College Preparatory

Bellarmine College Preparatory is a Catholic high school in San Jose, California, serving over 1,000 students in grades 9 through 12. The school operates as a day institution, drawing from across the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the Jesuit tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Bellarmine's stated mission centers on forming students to seek justice and truth and to live lives of service.

Teaching at Bellarmine integrates ethics into every subject. The Jesuit approach means you teach your discipline while modeling how knowledge serves others—not as an add-on, but as core pedagogy. This shapes what faculty hire into: teachers willing to connect their content to larger questions of meaning and responsibility.

The school offers four languages: Mandarin Chinese, French, Latin, and Spanish. Beyond languages, Bellarmine hires across English, mathematics, sciences, theology, humanities, arts, and athletics. Administrative and student support roles open year-round as well.

Bellarmine's day-school structure means faculty maintain clearer work-life boundaries than at residential schools. You are not a dorm parent or residential mentor. The trade-off is deep immersion in your classroom and program, with steady student-teacher relationships across the year. As a larger, stable institution, hiring cycles are predictable: most openings occur before August, with rolling searches for specialized roles during the academic year.

For teachers committed to Catholic and Jesuit education, Bellarmine offers an established community with clear identity. The school's size creates real specialization in your teaching discipline alongside connection to shared formation goals. Faculty collaborate on what it means to educate for service.