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In 1999, the Dioceses High School Task Force found room for expansion in the Gainesville area, and so St. Francis Catholic High School opened on August 16, 2004, to serve the growing population. In 2016, St. Francis dropped the "high school" moniker and changed its name to Saint Francis Catholic Academy. [2]
Catholic secondary schools in Florida (39 P) Pages in category "Catholic schools in Florida" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Cardinal Gibbons High School (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Cardinal Mooney High School (Florida) Cardinal Newman High School (West Palm Beach, Florida) Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart; Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School; Christopher Columbus High School (Miami-Dade County, Florida) Clearwater Central Catholic High School
St. Joseph Academy, founded in 1866, by the Sisters of St. Joseph, is the oldest continuously operating Catholic high school in Florida. 1874 marked the first “graduation”a class of 2! In 1876, the Academy was state chartered and in 1877 a boarding school for young women began. (It would remain until 1968.)
In 1916, Florida Governor Park Trammell ordered the arrest of three Sisters of St. Joseph for violating the law on teaching African-American children. Curley vigorously attacked their arrests as part of a campaign against Catholic schools, gaining strong support from other Catholic prelates in the United States. [16] [17]
Gainesville High School (GHS) is a high school in Gainesville, Florida, United States. There were 1,890 students attending it in 2015. There were 1,890 students attending it in 2015. The current principal is Daniel Ferguson, who joined the GHS staff in July 2022.
Oak Hall was founded in 1970, the same year that Gainesville finished desegregation of their high schools. [1] Founded by Drs. Billy Brashear and Harry L. Walker, the school was open to all "without regard to race, creed or color", but had a $1,100 tuition.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (Pompano Beach) [45] - The church attempted to resolve its debt to the archdiocese by loaning $2.13 million from Bank of America, and the school had $337,000 in debt in 2009, and it ballooned to $1.3 million of debt in the 2009–2010 school year. It closed on June 15, 2010.