Ground-breaking for New Catholic High School

A new Catholic high school born of dreams, passion and a sense of duty to the future has begun taking shape in Dardenne Prairie.

Barat Academy's founders broke ground Tuesday on what will become a private, independent Catholic high school. It is scheduled to open in fall of next year to the first 150 of those students - 75 girls and 75 boys - and add about 150 students a year over the following three years. It will be the first new Catholic high school built in the St. Louis Archdiocese in nearly 40 years.
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The school has the backing of Archbishop Raymond Burke, who granted his approval for its formation. Barat Academy will have a board of directors, but it also will have a church-recognized board called the Association of the Christian Faithful to maintain the school's philosophy and Catholicity.