|  In
1960, the vision of Catholic education in the Rapid City Diocese
took its first giant step with the construction of Perpetual
Help Grade School on Fairmont Boulevard in Rapid City,
replacing the Cathedral Grade School and St. John’s Grade
School. The school is now called St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
School.
Next door to Seton is St. Thomas More High
School, which opened in 1995 and is the successor to Cathedral
High School and St. Martin’s Academy.
Seton and St. Thomas More now serve over
700 children from pre-school through twelfth grade, developing
in those students “personal and academic excellence in
the Catholic tradition.” The students come from the greater
Rapid City area and various other communities in western South Dakota. |
“My
fervent hope is that our efforts and sacrifices on behalf of our
young people will inspire them as an example of how adults should
work together in a way that takes responsibility for the future.
That will be our greatest and most enduring contribution to them
in this campaign.”