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St. Charles Borromeo School (Houston) (Spring 2009) [34] - Merged with Seton Junior High School, forming Assumption Catholic School [36] [55] After Hurricane Ike in 2008 damaged the Borromeo building, students began sharing space with Seton, which at the time was not yet built to accommodate younger students.
It was founded in 1968 as a consolidation of Galveston Island's three existing Catholic high schools: Kirwin High School (Boys, founded in 1927) and Dominican High School (Girls, founded in 1882) and Ursuline Academy (Girls, founded in 1847) and is the only Roman Catholic high school in Galveston County. [2]
The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston bought the site in March 1999. The church's 100-seat 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) sanctuary and 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2 ) Formation Center were scheduled to be completed in early March 2004 for a total of $5.8 million.
The school is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. It is one of only two private schools in Texas that are members of the University Interscholastic League (the other being Dallas Jesuit ), which allows it to compete athletically against the largest public schools.
In 2008 the school had 165 students, and in the spring of that year the school held its first graduation. [2] By April of that year the student count was 206. [ 4 ] The student body increased to 270 for the 2009–2010 school year and then 314 for the 2010–2011 school year.
The archdiocese was erected in 2004, having been a diocese since 1959 and the "Diocese of Galveston" since 1847. It is the second metropolitan see in Texas after the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The mother church of the archdiocese is St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston; [3] the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston.
Duchesne was established in September 1960 as a part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, with 58 high-school pupils. The school is named after Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, the first member of the Society of the Sacred Heart to come to America. The school is part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
St. Thomas High School is an all-boys, Catholic college preparatory school in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1900, St. Thomas is the second oldest continuously operating private high school in Houston behind Incarnate Word Academy, which was founded in 1873. The school is operated by the Basilian Fathers in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.