Saturday, February 20, 2010
Enrollment at the kindergarten-through-sixth-grade school this year is 73 students.
STAFF report
WARREN — The St. Pius X campus of Notre Dame School, 1461 Moncrest Drive, N.W., will close at the end of this school year and transfer its program to Blessed Sacrament School, 3000 Reeves Road N.E.
Declining enrollment at the St. Pius X campus and budget efficiencies for the school system are the major factors contributing to this merger, officials said.
Parents were informed of the merger decision by a letter mailed Feb. 12.
Transition planning for current Notre Dame School students was further detailed at two parent meetings at St. Pius X that took place Feb. 18 and 19.
St. Pius X campus first operated as a parish school within St. Pius X parish on the west side of Warren.
The parish was founded in 1959, and its school program was developed in the early 1960s.
In 1971, junior-high grades throughout Warren were transferred to St. Mary Middle School, and St. Pius served parish students up through sixth grade.
In 1988, St. Pius X became part of Warren Parochial School, the precursor of today’s nine-parish Notre Dame School system.
The St. Pius campus enrollment in 2006-07 was 90 students.
For the 2009-10 school year, 73 students are enrolled from kindergarten through sixth grade.
The Rev. Richard Murphy is president of Notre Dame School.