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New High School Steering Committee

⭐ Attention: Are you interested in a new Catholic Highschool option for children in Southern Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore? If so, please consider the information provided below. ⭐

 

An update on the status of the New High School Study
in the area of Most Blessed Sacrament and
St. Francis de Sales Schools and Parishes
(Berlin/West Ocean City, MD and Salisbury, MD)

 

As many may know, we had a great response to our last survey to determine the general interest in continuing to study the need for a new Catholic High School in our area.

 

The High School Steering Committee was encouraged to proceed to the next step, which was to hire the Meitler Company. The Meitler Company has over 50 years of experience helping the Diocese/Catholic Schools make smart decisions regarding development.

 

Meitler’s strength is in researching, collating/analyzing demographic, enrollment, development and financial data to ask the right questions and provide a strong foundation for planning. We will be meeting with the Meitler Consultants on May 01 and 02. They will be holding Parent Focus Groups on May 01 on each of the campuses (Most Blessed Sacrament & Saint Francis de Sales).

 

On May 02, they will be meeting with Pastors, Principals and County Planners to begin to collect the data they need to determine the enrollment potential and community interest of a new Catholic High School. Later this summer there will be a more in-depth survey sent out to all parents and interested parties to gather more information.

 

A final report is expected to be delivered later in the summer in August. Based on those results the Task Force will decide if it makes sense to move forward to the next phase of study which would include the financial planning and potential site analysis.

We were fortunate to have the cost of Phase 1 of the study funded by a local foundation. If we proceed to Phase 2 of the study, we will have to raise additional funds to cover that cost. Our parish communities will hear about that when the time is right.

 

⭐ If you have any questions or would like to donate your land, time, talent or treasure please contact our local coordinator, Tom Monahan via email at Tom@ThomasPMonahanLLC.com. ⭐ 

 

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