Johannesburg Polytech Institute (JPI) aspires in the service of God to:

• Be a home of religious discipline - meaning fair and just parameters and consequences, tempered with compassion.
• Be a home of soul learning - must be benchmarked against the best in the inner city (and the country) in the academic arena.
• Be a home of goodwill - involvement in charity, good works and service must be sign of a Polytechnician.

"The Spirit That Will Never Die"

Pupils leaving the institute must be:

• Rightly trained in body - sports and all aspects of healthy living is part of our curriculum.
• Be a home of goodwill - involvement in charity, good works and service must be sign of a Polytechnician.
• Rightly trained in mind - apart from all the academic, where creativity, enquiry, and self-learning is emphasized, pupils should be exposed to as many varied activities as possible which develop the mind and promote meaningful experience.
• Rightly trained in character - pupils must be extended continually and challenged to expand and grow, by a demanding, professional, and encourage staff that have passionate belief in the potential of every pupil
• Rightly trained to serve God well - pupils must be equipped for a changing and ever more challenging world in different religions that they are.