Parochial
The All Saints Catholic School, serves grades pre-K through 8th. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport which consolidated three previous Norwalk elementary schools (St. Thomas, St. Philips, and St. Mary's) and closed the former Central Catholic High School to open the All Saints in the former Central Catholic High building on West Rocks Road.
The Congregation Beth El on East Avenue runs the Nitzan preschool as well as the Navasky hebrew school for part time religious instruction of children enrolled full time in other elementary schools.
In 2008 the Connecticut Friends School purchased the White Barn Theatre in the Cranbury neighborhood in northeast Norwalk. The Quaker school plans to build a new solar powered 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2) campus on the property with occupancy expected by the Fall of 2009 for grades K-8.
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Famous quotes containing the word parochial:
“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words of the Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint’s picture.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)