St Joseph School Chinatown
- St Joseph School Chinatown
St. Joseph School is an inner-city Catholic Primary School in the Archdiocese of New York. It is located at 1 Monroe Street, in the heart of New York’s Chinatown, and serves a predominantly Chinese immigrant population. The school’s mission is to provide quality education regardless of a student’s background, religion, or financial situation.[www.stjosephnyc.org] St. Joseph is open to students of all faiths, nationalities, and races.]History
Founded in 1926, the school originally served an Italian immigrant community located on the Lower East Side. As the Chinatown community expanded, partially due the lift of an immigration quota in 1965, the area surrounding the school became inundated with immigrants that eventually developed into the largest Chinese population in the Western Hemisphere. [http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown] [ [http://www.nychinatown.com/Chinatown.htm New York ] ] St. Joseph School adapted to the new population by adjusting its resources to best serve the needs of the changing community. St. Joseph is now the only Catholic School in lower Manhattan with an English as a Second Language Program, and is one of the only schools in the Archdiocese to admit students who do not speak English.
Demographics
About 60% of St. Joseph’s students are Asian, while 20% are African-American and 20% are Latino.[Elementary School Census 2007-2008] ]More than 80% of St. Joseph’s students qualify for the federally funded free or reduced lunch program, and more than 50% do not have an English speaker at home.
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External links
*http://www.stjosephnyc.org/
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