Early History
The school opened in 1876 as St. Rose Academy on top of Salem Avenue in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The school was located at the Brennan Estate, a large Victorian-style mansion at the top of Salem Avenue. At the time, the Brennan Estate also housed the novitiate for the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM). In 1902, the novitiate was moved to Marywood in Scranton. Due to rising enrollment, a two story extension was added to the Estate building in 1915, and the school became co-ed in 1926. Eventually, Saint Rose Academy became St. Rose High School and the sisters educated children from grades one through twelve. A school of nursing occupied part of the Estate building, along with the living quarters of the IHM sisters; grades four, five, six, and eight occupied the building on the first floor. The extension housed grades one, two, three and seven on the first floor and grades nine through twelve on the second floor. In 1950, a large, modern school was built on the corner of South Church Street and Seventh Avenue as St. Rose High School. It housed grades kindergarten through 12th grade. As the school continued to grow, a new convent and an Annex building were constructed behind St. Rose of Lima Church and became the new home for the IHM sisters and the school portion housed the primary grades. Along with students from Carbondale, the new school attracted students from Archbald, Jermyn, Mayfield, Childs, Simpson, Vandling and Forest City, as well as a small number of students from St. Vincent Elementary located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The high school had over 275 students at its peak in the 1956-1957 school year. In the early years, the school colors were blue and white and after the new school was built in 1950, the colors were changed to royal blue and gold. The years from late 1940s through the 1950s and later in the 1970s were years of basketball excellence for St. Rose.
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