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West Baton Rouge Parish Holy Family School (Port Allen) - It opened on September 5, 1949, with 146 students in Kindergarten through grade 3, with it becoming K-5 in 1950, and with one grade level per subsequent year until it was K-8, with 345 students, in 1953.
Aware of the lack of Catholic education for young black people in the South during Jim Crow, she planned to establish a high school in New Orleans. The chosen site had been previously occupied by Southern University on Magazine Street, a black institution which had moved to Baton Rouge after an influx of white neighbors petitioned for its ...
Catholic High School was founded in 1894 as St. Vincent's Academy. The school was so named in recognition of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, who helped organize and establish the school. [4] The original site of the school was an old frame building in downtown Baton Rouge, and the enrollment was 106 students.
Sister of St. Joseph Linda Fusco, 73, left, and Erie Benedictine Sister Katherine Horan, 59, are shown at Blessed Sacrament School, where they serve as a math specialist and principal ...
Old Jefferson is a census-designated place (CDP) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,980 at the 2010 census , up from 5,631 in 2000. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Xavier University Preparatory School was a private, Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament founded, owned and operated the school, having opened it in 1915 as what would eventually become Xavier University of Louisiana .
The present-day Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge began with the work of French missionaries among the Native American peoples of the area. [2] The Jesuit priest Pierre Charlevoix celebrated the first mass in the Baton Rouge area in 1722. The first Catholic churches in the region were: St. Francis Chapel in Pointe Coupée in 1738 [3]
Blessed Sacrament School or Blessed Sacrament Catholic School may refer to: Schools in Canada. Blessed Sacrament School (Wainwright, Alberta)