The school serves students from four surrounding Pennsylvania counties, two counties in New Jersey, and several foreign countries. The school's students have a broad socioeconomic background, varying from urban to suburban. The community is mostly residential with several commercial and light industrial areas. Notre Dame offers an education program to children with learning disabilities, known as the Aquinas Program.
Father Bernard T. Pagano, American Roman Catholic priest and school teacher who became nationally known in 1979 when he was falsely accused in a string of armed robberies in Delaware and Pennsylvania, known as the "Gentleman Bandit" case, in which an otherwise polite man held store clerks at gunpoint, demanding money. He was cleared of the charges when the real culprit Ronald W. Clouser turned himself in. Pagano's story was dramatized in the 1981 film The Gentleman Bandit, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, in which Pagano served as technical advisor. Pagano taught theology at Notre Dame in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He also served as an airman in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
