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School History Our Mother of Sorrows School was founded in 1878 under the guidance of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. As the parish grew, so did the school, which eventually expanded to include over 1,500 students and three school buildings, one of which later became St. Thomas More High School. Today over 200 school students in grades PreK through Eight are still led by a Sister of Saint Joseph, Sr. Owen Patricia Bonner. The school facility includes a school building with ten classrooms, a library, a computer center, and a resource room, as well as the Margaret Madden Arts Center located in the church rectory, and an auditorium/cafeteria located in the lower church. St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish was founded in 1893. St. Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament began educating children in the Church in 1926. The school moved to its current facility in 1967, which contains nine classrooms, a library, a computer center, and a multipurpose gym/auditorium/cafeteria. Today the school enrolls over 130 students in grades Kindergarten through Eight, and is St. Katharine’s only remaining mission in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. School administrators, parents, and parishioners from Our Mother of Sorrows and Saint Ignatius of Loyola came together in the spring of 2005 to create a new model of Catholic education. The result was the Saint Katharine Drexel Project. This new model called for a united administration and shared facilities. Today the schools are able to leverage their resources and provide a quality Catholic education for less than a third of the price of public schools. |
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“Students today have so many more tools than I did when I graduated from Our Mother of Sorrows just ten years ago.” - OMS alumnus |
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