User:Jcarmody/Sacred Heart School (Hampton, New Hampshire)

Sacred Heart School of Hampton New Hampshire is a Catholic school under the Dioceses of New Hampshire. It is the parish school for Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish, also in Hampton. This school serves grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight grade.

History
Sacred Heart School was founded in September of 1963 to meet the needs of families attending Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish. Initially, Sacred Heart School only served grades four and five. Each year it added one more grade until the first class graduated in 1967. Through the 1970's, the school flourished with a maximum enrollment of over 250 students. In 1984, Sacred Heart added a Kindergarten under the guidance of the new principal. In 1994 they added a full time Kindergarten opposed to the previous part time and a Pre-Kindergarten program. Currently, there are 340 students enrolled in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight grade.

Mission
The mission of Sacred Heart School from their website is, "Sacred Heart School provides a faith-filled, academically excellent education for our students, and proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ by fostering the spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social development of our students. Because parents are the primary teachers, we seek to collaborate with them in teaching our students to live the message revealed by God, to share in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and to give service to the human family by reaching out to the needy, the elderly, the disabled and the vulnerable in our local community."