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Aquinas High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school located in midtown Augusta, Georgia, United States. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Georgia High School Association and the National Catholic Educational Association .
St. Thomas Aquinas is a member of the Halton Catholic District School Board. There are over 1100 students attending the school in grades 9 through 12. At St. Thomas Aquinas, the current principal is Ms. Kathleen Moro and the vice-principals are Mr. David Agro and Ms. Melissa Giardina (for the IB Programme) as of November 2024.
The academy was founded in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII to study and promote the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in service to the Church and the world. [4] The Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas is temporarily headquartered in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican City. Its objectives, as stated in the academy's Yearbook 2007, are the following:
This 2022 award — as an Exemplary High Performing School — adds to the ones St. Thomas won in 1984 and 1996. Winning schools must wait five years before applying for another award. On May 29, 1996, President Bill Clinton presented St. Thomas Aquinas High School with the Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award for excellence in education ...
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.
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He became Spiritual Director in 1968 and was appointed Rector in 1970. O'Connell served as Director of Vocations for the Diocese of Jefferson City from 1969 to 1988. He was serving as Rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary when he was appointed first Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Knoxville on June 7, 1988.
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.