The focus of the college is the presentation of students for useful living in the society, preparing them for higher Education,and to achieve moral and academic excellence. To expose our students to learning through the provision of effective teachers focused on improving students outcome through their commitment to duties in an environment that is conducive to learning and by engaging them in high standard educative, spiritual and moral instruction

As a result of the remarkable and observable constant performance of their children/wards in the Franciscan Nursery/Primary school, ilesa. The parents motion the idea of establishing a secondary school which they believed would be capable of achieving enviable standards. Continuity and distance in the pursuit of their children’s education were other conceivable factors. In one of P.T.A. meetings the idea was tabled and the catholic mission accepted the challenges that the establishment of a High School might pose. It will be recalled that Reverend Sister Gerard O’ Donnell was the school Administration then and she left no stone unturned in ensuring that the age-long idea of the parents of the primary school was concretised and crystalised. It is no exaggeration to opine that Rev. Sr. Gerard O’Donnell was the doyen, mentor, the moving spirit and the central figure behind the establishment of what is now known as St. Anthony’s Catholic High School today. The school officially took off on 6th January, 1997 following a preparatory classes spanning three months, October to December, 1996 under the supervision of Rev. Sr. Gerard O’Donnell and the vice principal elect Rev. Sr. Margaret A. Alokan. The school occupied the mission’s building lying on the South East and South-West end of Franciscan Nursery/Primary, Ijofi, Ilesa. The provisional letter of approval is Ref.O S P S/012/232 dated 20th January,1997.