Welcome to our new school principal, Dr. AManda Lo Coco

Dr. Amanda LoCoco felt that God was calling her to “a place of leadership” where she could “make an impact in Catholic education.”

She has found one at Holy Trinity School.

A San Diego native, LoCoco’s first exposure to Catholic education was as a fifth-grader, when she was enrolled at Santa Sophia Academy in Spring Valley. It was “a formative experience,” during which she became an altar server and lector and felt a desire to continue her Catholic education at the Academy of Our Lady of Peace.

She earned a bachelor’s in Religion and Fine Arts from Regis University (2011), a master’s in Biblical Theology from John Paul the Great Catholic University (2014), and a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University (2023).

She taught sixth through eighth grade at the former St. Michael Academy in Paradise Hills, from 2013 to 2014. She was a teacher at Cathedral Catholic High School, from 2014 to 2022, and served as director of institutional research and as an adjunct professor at John Paul the Great Catholic University, from 2022 to 2024.

In 2024, she also was an adjunct professor at the University of Saint Katherine, a San Marcos-based Orthodox Christian university, during its final year in operation.

“I love Jesus,” LoCoco said, explaining what attracted her to a career in Catholic education. “Everything I do is for Him and through Him. In no way would I be capable of working at a secular school devoid of Christ. My love for teaching is rooted in the teaching of Christ.”

“Catholic schools mold the whole person,” she said. “We are not just trying to get students into a good high school. We are trying to get them into Heaven.”