All Hallows High School at 111 East 164th Street goes coed this month with the admission of some freshman girls. Please see the school's website linked HERE.
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The word Hallows means Saints. The Irish Christian Brothers ran a successful high school at All Saints parish at East 129th Street and Madison Avenue.
Its history may be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Hallows_High_School
The school is about 0.3 mile east of the new Yankee Stadium.
Please see the announcement on the website of St. Barnabas Girls' HS in Woodlawn Heights.
Link HERE.
Yes, it is with great sadness. The story broke over the weekend on News 12 Westchester.
Missing from the school's website is the number of students in each grade.
Note that, in similar fashion, it is difficult to learn the current enrollment per grade in each of the possible receiving schools. I suspect that the surrounding Catholic high schools would welcome more students, but there also the weakness or strength of current enrollment per grade should be stated.
Also, I note that the destination school has to be at least somewhat convenient, based not on St. Barnabas's location, but on where the student lives.
The administration of the "Partnership Schools" will be transferred back to the Archdiocese. This article explains much of what I did not know.
The Vicar for the Clergy has announced priest assignments effective July 1, 2024. The names and parishes may be seen at this link.
I know none of the men, but these are the Bronx parishes receiving new pastors or administrators. "Administrator" seems to be a fill-in job.
St. Margaret & St. Gabriel
Our Lady of Mercy
St. Margaret Mary
St. Anthony of Padua
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Parochical Vicars or assistants
St. Margaret -St. Gabriel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
St. Frances de Chantal
On its website, Fordham Prep presents a clear description of where the students live. Please see
Visitation church on Van Cortlandt Park South was sold and demolished in 2023, according to this article in the Riverdale Press.
https://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/van-cortlandt-church-property-fetches-29-million,80028
For photos of the now-demolished buildings, please see this link.
Linked below is a message from Cardinal Timothy Dolan about moving the archdiocesan offices now at 1011 First Avenue to an office building at 488 Madison Avenue, close to the cathedral and the Cardinal's residence. Cathedral High School for Girls has already moved to 116 East 97th Street, behind the church of St. Francis de Sales. The Cardinal's announcement says nothing about the parish church of Saint John the Evangelist, which has been inside the East 55th Street portion of 1011 First Avenue since about 1973.
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Both 1011 First Avenue and 488 Madison Avenue are huge. I presume that the archdiocese will need less space, maybe a floor or two. As the Look Building, 488 Madison was built in 1949 with 447,000 square feet on 23 stories. 1011 First Avenue has 20 stories and 398,214 square feet. I count 85 archdiocesan departments headquartered at 1011 First Avenue
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In 1948, the archdiocese purchased three of the four Villard houses at at 455 Madison Avenue for a chancery. As an 8th grader in the fall of 1949, I got dressed there as an imitation Columban Father to participate in Mission Sunday. We then filed along East 50th Street, boy "missionaries" next to faux religious sisters in various child-size habits, as my Dad took at least one photo, now lost. It was the Religious of Jesus and Mary (RJM) from Kingsbridge who provided the cassock I wore. A girl classmate was in a RJM imitation habit. Twenty years later, some religious sisters, looking for a dispensation from vows, went to the Villard House for a required interview with a cleric. The archdiocese leased the Villard House property when it built 1011 First Avenue about 1973. The Villard House and its tall new building have had several renters or owners and different hotel names over the past fifty years.
https://thegoodnewsroom.org/cardinal-dolan-announces-relocation-of-new-york-catholic-center/
The Norwood News of 9.14.2023.
Montefiore Hospital owns the former school of St. Ann on Bainbridge Avenue. It has now leased the school to a non-profit middle school. Please see the article linked below. Because the parish never got around to building a church, what is now a school gym was for years fitted out as a church.
https://www.norwoodnews.org/norwood-charter-middle-school-opens-at-former-st-ann-site/
The Archdiocese of New York (seven counties), the Diocese of Brooklyn (two counties), and the Diocese of Rockville Centre (two counties) generally require the test offered on the website https://tachsinfo.com/
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The test is taken by computer at home. It costs $71. The student selects three high schools to which the testing company will send results. The test is apparently scheduled for early November, 2023. Apparently there is some way the downloaded program knows that is is the registered eighth grade student and not a learned grandma answering the test questions.
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The abbreviated name for the test is TACHS. Much more information is at https://tachsinfo.com/
The NYC Board of Education has signed up with St. Brendan's parish to lease its school part-time for a charter school. The parish will be able to use it for religious education, apparently on weekends. Please see the Norwood News article linked HERE.
