Our History

St. Joseph School was established in 1883.

The first classes were held in a small brick building that had originally served as the first St. Joseph Church from 1850-1877.  In those early years, the Benedictine Sisters from Elk County who staffed the school educated approximately 80 students each year in a building with only two rooms!

By 1895, enrollment at St. Joseph School had exceeded the capacity of the old brick church building. At that time, Fr. James McCabe, the pastor of St. Joseph Parish, oversaw the construction of a new, larger facility on Beech Street. That building, known was St. Joseph Hall, would serve as the parish grade school from 1895 until 1980, when our current school building was completed.