St Thomas Elementary School Image

Title: St Thomas Elementary School Image
Description: St Thomas established the school in 1916, the Parish School was opened with an enrollment of 60 children, kindergarten through fourth grade, by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This photo is the photo of the first class of St Thomas, back in 1916 when the school was first established. The school itself today has a wide range of ethnic groups representing the city of Uptown,the largest groups being from Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. To this day, the school still offers teachings in both English and Spanish, and the Spanish-speaking population in the Uptown area is relatively high. A large part of the reason why the school was established was to create a sense of fuller community within the Church. During this period, Churches were established as a “third location”, where people could not only go to worship, but it was part of their social lives. People would send their kids to the school and they would meet their friends at the Church: St Thomas could embody every part of a community.
Is Part Of: St. Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church; Mary, Mother of God Roman Catholic Parish
Denomination: en Roman Catholic Church
Date: 1916
Source: Parish Heritage Center Mary, Mother of God Parish
City: Chicago
Neighborhood: en Uptown
Rights: Image Courtesy of Mary, Mother of God
Contributor: Roman Rosari