List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston


This is a list of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
In 2020 the primary and secondary schools of the archdiocese had about 30,000 students and numbered 112.

Elementary-Age 22 schools

PK-12 schools

SchoolLocationReligious orderFounded
Academy of Notre DameTyngsboroSisters of Notre Dame de Namur1854
Lowell Catholic SchoolLowellXaverian Brothers1989

6-12 schools

SchoolLocationReligious orderFounded
Austin Preparatory SchoolReadingOrder of Saint Augustine1961
St. John's Preparatory SchoolDanversXaverian Brothers1907
St. Mary's High SchoolLynn1881

7-12 schools

SchoolLocationReligious orderFounded
Archbishop Williams High SchoolBraintreeSisters of Charity of Nazareth1949
Boston College High SchoolDorchesterSociety of Jesus1863
Cathedral High SchoolBostonSisters of St. Joseph1926
Catholic Memorial SchoolWest RoxburyCongregation of Christian Brothers1957
Notre Dame AcademyHinghamSisters of Notre Dame de Namur1853
Saint Sebastian's SchoolNeedham1941
Ursuline AcademyDedhamUrsuline Sisters1819
Xaverian Brothers High SchoolWestwoodXaverian Brothers1963

High schools

In 2020 Sacred Heart Schools announced that its high school division would close.

PK-9 schools

  • Saint Agnes School

PK-8 schools

With former high school divisions:
SchoolLocationReligious orderFounded
Sacred Heart SchoolsKingstonCongregation of Divine Providence1947

Other:

3-8 schools

4-8 schools

  • Mother Caroline Academy
  • Nativity Preparatory School

5-8 schools

  • Bellesini Academy

6-8 schools

  • Monsignor Haddad Middle School

PK-6 schools

1-6 schools

  • Sacred Heart Elementary School

PK-5 schools

  • Sacred Heart School
  • Saint Joseph Elementary School
  • Saint Mary's School

Preschool and Kindergarten

  • Good Shepherd Early Childhood
  • Sacred Heart Early Childhood Center

Former schools

PK-8 schools (former)

  • Charlestown Catholic Elementary School - The final remaining Catholic school in the neighborhood, it closed in 2003.
  • Franco American School - It was established on the Ayer Estate as an orphanage for French American children after the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate purchased the property in September 1908. Various extra facilities were added to the property. It was originally a boarding school only but hosted non-boarding children by the 1950s and then ended boarding in 1978. It closed in 2016. Coalition for a Better Acre and TMI Property Management & Development together purchased the facility for $2.3 million in 2017. The building remained intact with about for office purposes and the other space for apartments, with five constructed on a roof and the remaining 48 in the existing space.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi School - Opened circa 1960 and closed by the archdiocese in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A petition to the archdiocese to keep the school open gained over 2,000 signatures, but the decision was maintained.
  • St. Catherine of Siena School - Opened in 1911
  • Saint Jerome Elementary School - Opened in 1959 and was closed in 2020 by the archdiocese due to low enrollment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • St. Joseph Elementary School - Closed in 2003.
  • Saint Louis School - Closed in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas Grammar School was open from 1873 to 1973.