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A nationwide trend toward declining enrollments, combined with the higher cost of salaries as the number of teaching sisters fell, brought St. Thomas through a series of challenges throughout the 1970s. Beginning in the mid-1980s through the 1990s St. Thomas Aquinas showed a steady and dramatic increase in enrollment.
The St. Thomas Aquinas Drama Department oversees production of at least three full-length performances each school year [31] with opportunities throughout the year both onstage and offstage. Fall opportunities include the “Shakespeare and the Classics” program which begins rehearsals In late summer to produce a play in mid-September.
Saint Thomas Academy (abbr. STA), originally known as St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and formerly known as St. Thomas Military Academy, is the only all-male, Catholic, college-preparatory, military high school in Minnesota. It is located in Mendota Heights near Saint Paul. The academy has a middle school (grades 6–8) and a high school (grades 9 ...
A number of private colleges — some considered elite and others middle-of-the-pack — have exceeded the $90,000 threshold for the first time this year as they set their annual costs for tuition ...
It, as St. Gabriel, became an Independence Mission School in 2012 (an action which at the time prevented its closure), and then closed completely in 2021. St. Thomas Aquinas School was to take the majority of St. Gabriel students. [112] St. Ignatius of Loyola School [113] It was established in 1923 and moved into another building in 1967. [44]
According to FinAid, “A good rule of thumb is that tuition rates will increase at about twice the general inflation rate.” If inflation is 4%, college inflation is 8% — and 8% inflation ...
From 2002 to 2004 alone, tuition rates at public schools increased by just over 14%, largely due to dwindling state funding. A more moderate increase of 6% occurred over the same period for private schools. [51] Between 1982 and 2007, college tuition and fees rose three times as fast as median family income, in constant dollars. [52]
In 2004, Aquinas adopted a new model of governance and administration for the school. As of the 2009–2010 school year: the president of the school is Thomas Dyer, who served as a teacher and administrator from 1972–1984 and the principal is Joseph C. Vagedes, previously a long-time Chemistry teacher and administrator at the school.