Catholic Education in Pawtucket, RI ✨
Pre-K–8th Grade 📚
Faith • Academics • Community 💙💛
🐾 Saint Cecilia Cougars
Email [email protected] for more information! Hebert arrived at Saint Cecilia’s as the new pastor, he remodeled two small houses and partitioned the former chapel, creating twelve separate classrooms. On September 21, 1938, the Rhode Island area was devastated by a fierce hurricane, Saint Cecilia School was completely destroyed. The city of Pawtucket offered the use of the Central Avenue School and Goff Junior High School. Principals of both schools made required accommodations, including rescheduling school sessions, to ensure that Saint Cecilia School could continue to function. Without delay, skilled volunteer workmen in the parish began constructing a new school. The new school was completed two years later, in 1940. In February 1970, the first school board was formed. The representative group of parents and interested persons met monthly and shared the responsibilities of the school and the administration. That same year, one of the vacant classrooms in the school was transformed into a spacious faculty/staff room. Two years later, a library and a reading center were opened in the basement of the school. In 1986, a computer room was created and dedicated in memory of the DeBlois, Ferland and Theriault families. Throughout its history, principals, faculty and staff, both religious and lay, have dedicated themselves to the children of Saint Cecilia School. They have excelled in their mission to prepare thousands of boys and girls for their course in life, imbuing these children with love for God and service to the Church. In this spirit, Saint Cecilia School continues its labor of love in education of God’s precious children.
