Holy Cross High is set to open in Dover for the 2025-2026 school year.

New Holy Cross High School celebrates milestone with ribbon-cutting

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

DOVER — Community leaders, educators, and local residents gathered late last week to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of the new Holy Cross High School, marking a major step forward for Catholic education in Central Delaware. “Our open house is a celebration of the vision becoming a reality for the young people of our community,” said President Tom Fertal. The event, hosted …

Monday's SUP Day was focused on community service.

Salesianum, Ursuline, Padua join in spirit of service

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Ninth-graders Juliana Carranza and Caroline Lober were complete strangers coming into Monday, but a day of community held by three Wilmington Catholic schools quickly changed that. Carranza and Lober – students at Padua Academy and Ursuline Academy, respectively – were two of the 450 freshmen that experienced the second SUP Day Monday, which brought together the full ninth-grade classes of …

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Padua’s graduation traditions start with painted skirts

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

  The uniforms worn by the senior Pandas of Padua Academy were a little more colorful than usual this week.  The soon-to-be graduates kicked off their end-of-year traditions by painting their skirts with the logos and colors of the universities they’ll attend in the fall.  “This tradition is really important to everyone at Padua because it’s a culmination of our …

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Meet Padua Academy’s 4 valedictorians. Yes. 4

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

For the first time in school history, Padua Academy will honor not two, not three, but four valedictorians to top their class of 2022. Arundhati Dole, Mary Katherine (Katie) Dorsey, Esosa Ediae and Emily Malone are this year’s Padua valedictorians. The young women all say that the honor reflects the sisterhood of Padua, which is an all-girls Catholic school in …