Lasallian schools are Christian schools, but schools in which a certain number of specific characteristics are given prominence. The Founder did not leave us a definite list of these characteristics, but the seven that follow correspond to the priorities which De La Salle considered essential to the early Christian Schools. In practice, these seven are interrelated. It is the integration of these characteristics that gives the school its Lasallian identity. 

A school can be said to be Lasallian:

• when there is a profound reverence for each student as a unique person,
• when there is a spirit of community,
• when the school offers quality education,
• when it really merits the adjective Christian,
• when it manifests solidarity with the poor and promotes the quest for justice and peace,
• when its administrators and teachers have made their own the characteristics of Lasallian education,
• and when the school community is formed in reference to the story of John Baptist de La Salle.