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Torrance also has several private schools. Catholic schools under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles include Bishop Montgomery High School, Nativity Catholic School, St James Catholic School and St Catherine Laboure Catholic School. Protestant private schools include Ascension Lutheran School and First Lutheran School.
St. Michael Academy, closed in 2021. [1]Sacred Heart School - Opened in 1914 and closed in 2021.It was privately operated. [2]Former schools of predecessor dioceses. St. Anthony's Industrial School - An American Indian school [3] (of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles)
The region has 67 parishes, eight high schools and 53 elementary schools. The two Catholic hospitals in this region, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, Torrance, and Little Company of Mary Hospital, San Pedro, are not operated by the archdiocese. The region has no Spanish missions or Catholic universities. [3] [2]
Not all the schools listed are operated by the archdiocese. Some are operated by religious institutes such as the Jesuits or the Franciscans. There are five universities or colleges, and 51 high schools within the archdiocese. As of 2020, the archdiocese has the country's largest Catholic school network. [1]
The Network operated 64 schools that served over 5,000 middle school age boys and girls across 27 states. It closed in June 2012. [1] Though the Nativity Miguel Network Central Office formally dissolved in June 2012, there are still over fifty former network schools in operation around the United States and Canada. [2] [3]
Bishop Montgomery High School (commonly referred to as "BMHS" or simply "Bishop" by students) is a Catholic high school serving twenty-five parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. BMHS was founded in 1957, and staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet , Conventual Franciscans , and lay faculty.
The pastoral region include several elementary or middle schools that are not affiliated with the archdiocese. Cathedral Chapel, 755 S. Cochran Ave., Los Angeles; Immaculate Heart Middle School, 5515 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles; Notre Dame Academy Elementary School, 2911 Overland Ave., Los Angeles; St. Turibius, 1524 Essex St., Los Angeles
They also staffed schools in Gilroy and Sonoma, California. The Presentation Sisters opened San Francisco's School of the Epiphany in 1938, and Menlo Park's Nativity Catholic School in 1956. [20] Presentation High School San Francisco was an all-girls school. The most-recent main building was constructed in 1930 at 2340 Turk Street.