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Expanded
Notre Dame H.S. Opens
On
Dec. 22, 2004, Bishop Joseph F.
Martino presided at a groundbreaking
ceremony for a $10 million expansion
of
Notre Dame
Jr./Sr.
High School
in
East Stroudsburg
. On Aug. 31, 2005, less than nine
months after construction began,
Notre Dame Senior High students
began classes in their new building.
The project
began with a feasibility study
during the summer of 2001. The study
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Notre Dame
Jr./Sr. High School was projecting a
surplus of student applicants from
their two elementary feeder schools,
Notre Dame Elementary of East
Stroudsburg and Monsignor McHugh
Elementary of Cresco. The study
concluded that more room would be
needed at the high school and that
Catholic families throughout the
Pocono community were willing to
support an expansion projection.
Very Rev.Thomas McLaughlin, V.F., president of
the school’s Board of Pastors,
said the expansion was desperately
needed, noting that last year alone,
the school had to turn away 40
applicants due to lack of space.
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The new high school currently houses
students in grades 9-12 and includes
10 new classrooms, two
state-of-the-art science labs, a
computer lab, wireless internet
service and a library. A new arts
center, which is slated for
completion later this fall, will
house a 750-seat theater.
The former
Jr./Sr. high school, founded in
1967, has been transformed into Notre Dame
Middle School for grades 5-8.
Grades
Pre-K through 4 will remain at Notre Dame
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Elementary School
.There are 251 students currently
enrolled in the high school, while
239 students are enrolled in the
middle school.
Principal Jeffrey N. Lyons said,
“Having our new high school is
like a dream come true not only for
the high school but for all the
Catholic schools of
Monroe
County. We are now able to accept more
students in each grade level of
the Notre Dame School, and Monsignor
McHugh School can expand knowing
that all of their eighth-grade
graduates will have a place in Notre
Dame
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High School.
“Catholic education is available
here in the Poconos thanks to the
prayerful financial support of our
Catholic community. The newness of
the building is an attraction (and a
very pleasant one), but the
opportunity to share the word of God
with all who come to our schools is
the real joy.”
Notre Dame Jr./Sr. High School is
supported by 11 parishes in Monroe
County, including Christ the King,
Blakeslee; Our Lady of the Lake,
Pocono Pines; Our Lady of Victory,
Tannersville; Our Lady Queen of
Peace, Brodheadsville; St. Ann,
Tobyhanna; St. Bernadette,
Canadensis; St. John and St.
Matt
hew, East Stroudsburg; St. Luke,
Stroudsburg; St.
Mary
of the Mount, Mount Pocono: and St.
Rita, Gouldsboro.
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