Dear St. Dominic School Families,
September 2019
Welcome returning families and new families! On behalf of Fr. Edward Kearns and the staff of St. Dominic Catholic School, I invite you to begin an exciting and challenging year of learning, growing, and living as Jesus teaches us. We are committed to providing the best learning environment for our students. We understand that a strong family-school partnership is a way to build faith-filled and academically prepared students.
We believe that school should be a safe and happy place to learn and to grow. Children will be educated holistically, as we model for our students, our school patron and namesake, St. Dominic. He took his sermons from the Book of Love and prayed to be filled in true love of neighbor. He encourages us to be humble and make sacrifices. St. Dominic spread the truths of our faith with preaching and prayer, especially the Rosary. If we live out these words each day, we will have a safe, successful, and blessed school year.
The new school year brings some changes, including new faculty and staff, updated curriculum and increased technology enhancements. We now have two brand new computer labs. Upstairs, we have a computer teacher, with 35 brand new desktops and printers .Downstairs, our working-computer lab allows teachers to bring their class to the lab, to do research. We have a brand new AC chromebook lab with 35 brand new chromebooks and printers. Our infra-structure had been upgraded and connectivity to ethernet as well as Wifi is fully operable. We are presently working on 2 STREAM Labs, both upstairs, in-progress- hopefully to be fully operable in February, 2020 and completed by September, 2020. We have accomplished much in the last two years and now we are in the process of our Middle States Re-Accreditation Process scheduled for Spring of 2020. This is definitely going to be an awesome school year filled with many memorable events.
We look forward to serving our students and families this school year. Thank you for your involvement in helping our school and for supporting Catholic Education.
Ever grateful,
Mr. Ralph A. Ciarroco- Principal
I am a child of God created in the image and likeness of God.
I do my best to keep our school a safe, welcoming, friendly, Catholic environment.
I love our students and respect their individual differences and learning abilities and challenges.
I work to keep the lines of communication open between the children, families, staff, and community.
I support our staff and work with them as we, together with the family, lead our children to Jesus.
I set high expectations and opportunities for learning and for providing service to others.
I am the St. Dominic Catholic School Principal, and I make my family and my school proud of me every day.