List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

In 2020 the primary and secondary schools of the archdiocese had about 30,000 students and numbered 112.[1]

Elementary-Age 22 schools

PK-12 schools

School Location Religious order Founded
Academy of Notre Dame Tyngsboro Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 1854
Lowell Catholic High School Lowell Xaverian Brothers 1989

5-12 schools

School Location Religious order Founded
Newton Country Day School Newton Society of the Sacred Heart 1880

6-12 schools

School Location Religious order Founded
Austin Preparatory School Reading Order of Saint Augustine 1961
St. John's Preparatory School Danvers Xaverian Brothers 1907
St. Mary's High School Lynn 1881

7-12 schools

School Location Religious order Founded
Archbishop Williams High School Braintree Sisters of Charity of Nazareth 1949
Boston College High School Dorchester Society of Jesus 1863
Cathedral High School Boston Sisters of St. Joseph 1926
Catholic Memorial School West Roxbury Congregation of Christian Brothers 1957
Notre Dame Academy Hingham Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 1853
Saint Sebastian's School Needham 1941
Ursuline Academy Dedham Ursuline Sisters 1819
Xaverian Brothers High School Westwood Xaverian Brothers 1963

High schools

School Location Religious order Founded
Arlington Catholic High School Arlington Sisters of St. Joseph 1960
Bishop Fenwick High School Peabody Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 1958
Cardinal Spellman High School Brockton Sisters of St. Joseph 1958
Central Catholic High School Lawrence Marist Brothers 1935
Cristo Rey Boston High School Dorchester 2010
Fontbonne Academy Milton Sisters of St. Joseph 1954
Malden Catholic High School Malden Xaverian Brothers 1968
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Lawrence Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 2004

In 2020 Sacred Heart Schools announced that its high school division would close.[2]

PK-9 schools

PK-8 schools

With former high school divisions:

School Location Religious order Founded
Sacred Heart Schools Kingston Congregation of Divine Providence 1947

Other:

  • Academy of Notre Dame (Tyngsboro)
  • Blessed Sacrament School (Walpole)
  • Cheverus Catholic School (Malden)
  • East Boston Central Catholic School (East Boston, Boston)
  • Holy Name Parish School (West Roxbury)
  • Immaculate Conception School (Lowell)
  • Immaculate Conception School (Marlborough)
  • Immaculate Conception School (Newburyport)
  • Immaculate Conception School (Revere)
  • Lawrence Catholic Academy (Lawrence)
  • Our Lady of the Assumption School (Lynnfield)
  • Our Lady's Academy (Waltham)
  • Quincy Catholic Academy (Quincy)
  • Sacred Heart Elementary School (Weymouth) - It is in Weymouth Landing. Merging in 2020 with St. Francis Xavier in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic[1]
  • Sacred Heart School (Roslindale)
  • Sacred Hearts School (Bradford)
  • Saint Agatha School (Milton)
  • Saint Anthony School (Everett)
  • Saint Augustine School (Andover)
  • Saint Bridget School (Abington)
  • Saint Bridget School (Framingham)
  • Saint Catherine of Siena School (Norwood)
  • Saint Charles Elementary School (Woburn)
  • Saint Columbkille Partnership School (Brighton)
  • Saint Francis Xavier School (Weymouth) - It is in the south of the city. Merging in 2020 with Sacred Heart in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
  • Saint John School (Boston)
  • Saint John the Baptist School (Peabody)
  • Saint John the Evangelist School (Canton)
  • Saint Joseph Elementary School (Holbrook)
  • Saint Joseph School (Medford)
  • Saint Joseph School (Wakefield)
  • Saint Mary of the Annunciation School (Melrose)
  • Saint Mary of the Annunciation School (Danvers)
  • Saint Mary of the Assumption Elementary School (Brookline)
  • Saint Mary of the Hills School (Milton)
  • Saint Michael Elementary School (Lowell)
  • Saint Michael School (Andover)
  • Saint Monica School (Methuen)
  • Saint Patrick School (Stoneham)
  • Saint Patrick School (Roxbury)
  • Saint Patrick School & Educational Center (Lowell)
  • Saint Paul School (Hingham)
  • Saint Peter School (Cambridge)
  • Saint Pius V Elementary School (Lynn)
  • Saint Raphael Parish School (Medford)
  • Saint Rose of Lima School (Chelsea)
  • Saint Theresa Catholic School (Somerville) - Originally its name was St. Catherine of Genoa School[3]
  • St. John Paul II Catholic Academy (Dorchester) - Includes the Columbia, Lower Mills, and Neponset campuses.
  • Ste Jeanne d'Arc School (Lowell)
  • The Saints Academy (Beverly)
  • Trinity Catholic Academy (Brockton) - Includes the Lower Campus and the Upper Campus

3-8 schools

4-8 schools

5-8 schools

6-8 schools

  • Monsignor Haddad Middle School (Needham)

PK-6 schools

  • Jackson Walnut Park Schools (Newton), includes Walnut Park Montessori
  • Mount Alvernia Academy (Newton)
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Grammar School (Roxbury)
  • Saint Benedict Elementary School (South Natick)
  • Saint Brendan School (Dorchester)
  • Saint John the Evangelist School (Wellesley Hills)
  • Saint Theresa of Avila School (West Roxbury)
  • South Boston Catholic Academy (South Boston)

1-6 schools

  • Sacred Heart Elementary School (Kingston)

PK-5 schools

Preschool and Kindergarten

Former schools

Former 6-12 schools

School Location Religious order Opened Closed
Saint Clement School Medford Sisters of St. Joseph 1925 2017[6]

Former high schools

School Location Religious order Opened Closed
Academy of the Assumption Wellesley
Academy of Notre Dame Boston
Blessed Sacrament High School Jamaica Plain
Boys' Catholic High School Malden Xaverian Brothers 1936 1968
Cardinal Cushing High School South Boston
Cheverus High School Malden
Christopher Columbus High School Boston Franciscan Friars 1945
Don Bosco Technical High School Boston 1946 1998
Elizabeth Seton Academy Boston 2003
Girls' Catholic High School Malden 1992
Holy Trinity High School Roxbury 1966
Hudson Catholic High School Hudson 1959 2009
Keith Academy Lowell 1989
Keith Hall Lowell 1989
Marian High School Framingham Sisters of St. Joseph 1956 2018
Mission Church High School Mission Hill 1926 1992
Monsignor Ryan High School South Boston
Mount Saint Joseph Academy Boston Sisters of St. Joseph 1884 2012
Nazareth High School South Boston
North Cambridge Catholic High School Cambridge 1951 2010
Notre Dame Academy Roxbury Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 1854 1954
Pope John XXIII High School Everett 1965 2019
Presentation of Mary Academy Methuen Sisters of the Presentation of Mary 1958 2020
Our Lady of Nazareth Academy Wakefield Sisters of Charity of Nazareth 1947 2009
Sacred Heart High School East Boston
St. Anne's School Arlington
St. Augustine High School South Boston
St. Bernard High School Newton
St. Clare High School Roslindale
St. Columbkille High School Brighton
St. John the Evangelist High School Cambridge 1921 1951
St. Joseph Academy Roxbury
St. Joseph's High School for Girls Lowell 1989
St. Louis Academy Lowell 1989
St. Patrick High School Lowell 1989
St. Patrick High School Roxbury
St. Peter's High School Cambridge
St. Thomas Aquinas High School Jamaica Plain
Savio Preparatory High School East Boston Salesians of Don Bosco 1958 2007
Trinity Catholic High School Newton 1894 2012

PK-8 schools (former)

  • Charlestown Catholic Elementary School (Charlestown)[7] - The final remaining Catholic school in the neighborhood, it closed in 2003.[8] Multiple parents were unhappy with the closure.[9]
  • Franco American School (Lowell) (private)[7] It was established on the Ayer Estate as an orphanage for French American children after the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate purchased the property in September 1908. Various extra facilities were added to the property. It was originally a boarding school only but hosted non-boarding children by the 1950s and then ended boarding in 1978. It closed in 2016.[10] Coalition for a Better Acre and TMI Property Management & Development together purchased the facility for $2.3 million in 2017. The building remained intact with about 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) for office purposes and the other space for apartments, with five constructed on a roof and the remaining 48 in the existing space.[11]
  • Saint Francis of Assisi School (Braintree) - It opened circa 1960. The archdiocese closed in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents started a petition to ask the archdiocese to not close the school, which got signed over 2,000 times, but the archdiocese maintained its decision.[12]
  • St. Catherine of Siena School (Charlestown) - Opened in 1911[13]
  • Saint Jerome Elementary School (Weymouth) - It is in the north of the city. Circa 2010 the school had 210 students; by 2020 this was down to 158, and the archdiocese projected enrollment for 2020-2021 to be circa 110. Closed in 2020 on the orders of the archdiocese in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
  • St. Joseph Elementary School (Roxbury) - Closed in 2003.[8][14]
  • Saint Louis School (Lowell) - Closed in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Murphy, Matt (2020-06-09). "Economic Collapse Cited In Wave Of Catholic School Closures". WBUR. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. ^ Sweeny, Emily (2020-02-07). "Sacred Heart High School in Kingston to close; elementary school to remain open". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  3. ^ "Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic School (Formerly St. Catherine of Genoa School) | Catholic Schools Office - Archdiocese of Boston".
  4. ^ "About US | Sacred Heart School in Lynn, MA".
  5. ^ "Sacred Heart School | Catholic Schools Office - Archdiocese of Boston".
  6. ^ The Boston Globe. "Medford's Saint Clement School closing June 9". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  7. ^ a b "Schools of the Archdiocese". www.rcab.org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. ^ a b Vaishnav, Anand; Karla Kingsley (2003-02-01). "At least 2 more Catholic schools to close in June". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  9. ^ Convey, Eric; Kellyanne Mahoney (2003-02-01). "Church irks Charlestown parents with school closing". The Boston Herald. Retrieved 2020-06-27. - Posted by The Poynter Institute
  10. ^ Tierney, Chris (2016-03-10). "Remember When – Franco American School? (SLIDESHOW)". The Lowell Sun. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  11. ^ Sobey, Rick (2018-04-15). "Franco American School to become homes, offices — with history intact (SLIDESHOW)". The Lowell Sun. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  12. ^ Sparks, Sarah D. (2020-06-09). "Catholic School Closures Rise Amid COVID-19, Recession". Education Week. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  13. ^ "Historic Timeline 1900 - 1996". Charlestown Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  14. ^ https://www.bostoncatholic.org/sites/g/files/zjfyce871/files/financial-statements/News_releases_2003-2002_statement030211.pdf [bare URL PDF]