Personal formation refers to the entirety of the education that is received in Springdale. Everything in Springdale exists and is done for the sake of the total personal development of the students.

By wisdom is meant the knowledge a human being must have to be happy in this life and in the next. By virtue is meant those habits that make a human being good.

The program consists in a deliberate and systematic program of character formation that is:

* founded on the academic program which is considered the primary venue for forming character;

* directed to all the students in a personalized manner;

* permeated by a Catholic ethos and the lay spirituality of Opus Dei;

* carried out through the collaboration of the parents and the teachers