Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Old St. Mary's Church to open boys school
By Jennifer Mrozowski
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Old St. Mary's Church plans to open a boys school next year in the building next door to the church. The adjacent building housed a school about 30 years ago.
Parish leaders hope to offer a college-prep Latin-based education to inner-city boys in grades kindergarten through 12, said the Rev. Albert Lauer. The Over-the-Rhine school will open with kindergarten and first grades next year and add one or two grades every year.
“We're trying to focus on a key group — young males — as far as making a difference in their future,” Father Lauer said.
Father Lauer said gangs, violence, alcoholism, drugs and other factors interfere with the education of young inner-city men, preventing many of them from becoming leaders in the community.
He hopes the school will be able to benefit youths through small class sizes and by having the students continue their education in one school from kindergarten through high school, he said.
The school, to be called St. Peter Claver Boys Latin School, 121 E. 13th St., is scheduled to open Aug. 27, 2001.
A school board has been established. Members are busy working on processing paperwork required by the state and coordinating fund-raising, said Bob Stephan, director of volunteers.
Students do not have to be Catholic to attend, but the Catholic religion will be integrated into the curriculum, he said.
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