In the 1950s, enrollment saw a significant increase and it became evident that if the school were to meet the educational challenges before it, an expansion of facilities was eminent.

The curvilinear south-facing library facade with a breezeway on the ground floor as well as the extremely large and regular windows punctuating the western facade was designed at least in part to take advantage of flow-through lake breezes from nearby Lake Michigan.

An interesting use of textures includes terrazzo stairways, glazed terracotta tiles and clerestory windows in interior hallways.

The outside is notable for limestone cladding, a southwestern orientation that maximizes both daylight and passive solar heating in the winter, the aforementioned breezeway, as well as modernist, circular concrete pads in the rear yard.

Accredited by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges, St. Francis de Sales’ academic program is guided by standards designed to provide a competent faculty, and a variety of instructional strategies, which allow each student to be successful.