Roncalli High School history

Joseph Francis Rummel was born in the village of Steinmauern in Baden, Germany, on October 14, 1876.

Saint Angelo Guiseppi Roncalli, Pope John XXIII, was born on November 25, 1881, in Sotto il Monte, a small town in the Province of Bergamo, Italy.

The first Catholic school was established inside Sacred Heart Church in 1886, and a freestanding school was built a few years later.

1899 St Mary’s Church and school is dedicated, serving mainly Polish speaking people.

Sacred Heart School was opened following the opening of the north side parish in 1905, serving mainly the Irish members of St Boniface.

St Paul School opens with an enrollment of 170 students following the parish being established in 1922.

1926 – Notre Dame Academy opens as an all girls’ school owned and operated by the Notre Dame Sisters.

1928 St Andrew School and Church is established to address overcrowding at St Boniface Parish.

1932 Due to the growth of Sacred Heart Parish, Holy Innocents Church and school is dedicated.

9, 1935) and former Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans (Mar.

In 1945, he launched the Youth Progress Program, a major initiative to raise money for the expansion of the parochial school system.

Saint Augustine High School in Orleans Parish was built in 1951.

In 1953, he was named the Patriarch of Venice, and, accordingly, raised to the rank of cardinal.

In October of 1960, at the age of eighty-two, Rummel broke an arm and a leg in a fall, after which he nearly died from pneumonia.

Archbishop Shaw, Archbishop Chapelle, and Archbishop Rummel, all in Jefferson Parish, were built in 1962.

1964 – Archbishop Rummel High School opens as an all boys school operated by the De LaSalle Christian Brothers.

1965 Roncalli High School is founded by the people of ten Catholic parishes in Manitowoc and Two Rivers.

Roncalli High School, a co-educational, life-preparatory high school, has a long, rich and proud heritage of Catholic education. Its tradition of service to Indianapolis’ south side extends back more than 90 years with the founding of Sacred Heart High School which, in 1966, was renamed John F. Kennedy Memorial High School.

Established in 1969, through the consolidation of Chartrand High School and Kennedy Memorial High School, Roncalli today serves over 1,200 students.

In 1980, the Aberdeen Catholic School System was consolidated and Sacred Heart and St Mary's Schools were renamed Roncalli.

In 1988-89 school year, the Roncalli Sonshine Patch Preschool/Daycare Program was created.

Since the initiation of the special needs resource program in 1993, over 150 students with a variety of learning disabilities are served through our award winning STARS and Life Academy programs.

In 2000, John was declared “Blessed Angelo Guiseppi Roncalli” by Pope John Paul II, the penultimate step on the road to sainthood.

2003 – On July 3, 2003, Roncalli Catholic High School was brought into formal association with Lasallian ministries of the Midwest District of the De LaSalle Christian Brothers.

Following the Building Faith and Futures Campaign, additional construction began in 2005 to expand the facilities to include a new fine arts wing and auditorium along with a new guidance facility, and greatly expanded space for our special needs resource center.

2006 The former Manitowoc Area Catholic School System becomes St Francis of Assisi School, serving students from 3k-grade 8.

Our Roncalli Catholic patron, Blessed Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII, was canonized on April 27, 2014 along with his successor Pope John Paul II.

Roncalli celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015 and is supported by 12 parishes in the region.