St. Mary's High School (Phoenix)

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St. Mary's Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.HistorySaint Mary's High School is the oldest Catholic High School in Arizona, and has been part of the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan area since 1917. St. Mary's is Arizona's first Roman Catholic high school, founded by the Sisters of the Precious Blood. The founders set aside classroom space for four boys and ten girls at St. Anthony's Elementary school. This was the beginning of the Saint Mary’s community.In 1920, Saint Mary’s moved into its very first, one-story home located on East Monroe Street. In 1928, all male students were transferred to Brophy College Preparatory School on North Central Avenue, leaving the Saint Mary's school an all-girls facility. The Great Depression caused financial problems, leading to the closure of Brophy in 1936. The boys were temporarily without a Catholic high school. Male students moved back to St. Mary's, but this time, into a new building. During the 1930s, one city block, bordered from Polk to Taylor and Second to Third Streets, had been purchased for $24,000. With this new land, a second Saint Mary's was built by the Franciscans whose goal was to educate those boys displaced by the closure of Brophy High School.The separation of both boys' and girls' schools lasted until 1958. By the end of 1958, the girls' school was condemned to make way for the Civic Plaza. Both schools were combined, making it mixed once again. As a result of boys and girls attending the same facility, it became necessary to add classrooms. On March 20, 1961, Reverend Francis J. Green, O.D., Bishop of Tucson, performed the dedication ceremony for the new seven-room addition to the school, including a ramada and a library.

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