Saint Catherine of Siena Academy in Oakland County starts the school year today at Napier Road, south of I-96 in Wixom, while Austin Catholic Academy near Romeo began its coed Catholic high school in Macomb County.
Thirty-six other Oakland County Catholic Schools ring out today as about 32,000 students in 99 schools in all counties of the Archdiocese of Detroit report to class, according to officials.
38 ninth graders join ten sophomores at Saint Caherine of Siena in a state-of-the-art facility built for 700 students. The all-girl school is located a mile west of the all-male Detroit Catholic Central in Novi. More than 1,000 students are enrolled there, school leaders say.
Local leaders complain that there's a lack of Catholic schools in the area counties. In 2008, Everest Academy added at high school to the Catholic grade school that was established in 1991 by Legionaries of Christ, an order of Catholic priests.
St. Catherine of Siena, a brilliant doctor of the Catholic Church was born in 1347. She was the twenty-fourth of twenty-five children in Siena, France. She challenged popes and was a local peacmaker, mediating between feuding and fractured families. She convinced Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome after a conflict between Florence and the Avignon-based papacy.
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