Strengthening and sustaining schools

Integrating technology into the classroom is imperative for 21st century learning. Teachers and students in Catholic Partnership Schools enjoy the benefits of SMART boards, classroom workstations, and fully equipped computer labs.

Our ministry to children includes empowering their families to value education’s significance. Our Family Support Programs allow us to provide necessary tools and resources to families that will reinforce classroom learning and help families identify and remedy barriers to children’s success.

Excellent Catholic schools provide an environment that nourishes the spirits and souls of children to sustain them for a lifetime. Our graduates are moving on to excellent high schools and later on, outstanding universities and professional trades.

Our responsibility is to provide an excellent education that gives children the skills they need for success in rigorous high schools so they have a choice of a college, profession, or trade. Measuring our success is important. It allows us to build on our strengths and to strengthen opportunities for growth.

Education is a transformative power that can positively change children’s lives and give them hope and a future of possibility. CPS co-curricular activities are designed to present new opportunities to students while enhancing their school-day learning.  

Catholic Partnership Schools believes that it is our obligation to insure mastery of core, foundational skills in reading and math. Our new literacy programs include the Children’s Literacy Initiative and First in Math.

Art becomes a unifying theme for Catholic Partnership Schools. In so many ways, the arts, whether visual, musical, or performing, can change everything. Art is a gift, an original gift that changes the one who receives and the one who creates.

Latest News

Better Than a Dream…Another Smash Hit from the Students

On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, The Rutgers-Camden University campus was buzzing with creative energy and anticipation as students took to the Student Campus Center and the Gordon Theater to proudly present their achievements in academics, the performing and fine arts, and student leadership.  The 3rd Annual Dreams of Our Children event again drew an overflow [...]

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Holy Name Graduate Shines at Penn Relays

Jalin Jackson, Holy Name School graduate and a sophomore at St. Joseph’s Prep, is featured in the Courier-Post coverage of the recent Franklin Field athletic mega-event, the Penn Relays. Not just a story about this young runner’s physical prowess, the article notes how Jalin’s personal determination is reflected in everything he does.

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Christine Healey talks about the success of the Partnership’s recent education summit

Board chair Christine Healey talks about the success of the Partnership’s recent education summit and notes that we’ve been instilling grit and resilience in our students for decades. Read her Burlington County Times Op-Ed article below.

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Catholic Partnership Schools in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Catholic Partnership Schools is featured prominently in a recent Philadelphia Inquirer spread about the importance of tenacity, self-control, and curiosity in student.  Read the Philadelphia Inquirer article below.

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2013 Education Summit

It’s Unanimous. The 2013 Education Summit Was a Winner   Our thanks to the more than 300 education professionals from seven states who converged on The Enterprise Center in Mt. Laurel, NJ on Monday, March 18th to hear noted author Paul Tough and a high-powered panel of researchers and academics talk about the power of [...]

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Governor Christie to Fund Pilot for Opportunity Scholarship Grants

In his recent address to the New Jersey legislature laying out his Fiscal Year 2014 budget, Governor Chris Christie announced a plan that will have a direct impact on students living in Camden and attending Catholic Partnership Schools.  “To make good on my belief that a quality education is a product of hard work and [...]

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iPad Initiative Transforms Classroom Learning for Students and Teachers

It’s a digital world and the more students know about navigating it successfully, the better off they’ll be.  The five Partnership Schools are totally wired with Smart Boards, seven computer stations in every classroom and an up-to-date computer lab in each school. And now, thanks to the generosity of two tech savvy [...]

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Classes Now In Session: Photos Show the Year’s Great Start!

The classrooms in the Partnership’s five schools are again filled with eager, energetic boys and girls happy to be back seeing old friends, making new ones, and sharing summer break stories. In this happy mix are the new students and their families getting a taste of the special qualities that drew them to our neighborhood [...]

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Students, Proud Families Celebrate Graduation 2012

This summer marked the formal transition into high school for 115 boys and girls in the five Catholic Partnership Schools. St. Cecilia’s and Sacred Heart had the largest contingent of graduates with 32 and 29 respectively, with the remaining three – Holy Name, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral, and St. Anthony of Padua each graduating just under [...]

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New Principal to Kick Off 2012-2013 School Year at St. Anthony of Padua School

Mary R. Burke, Ed.D joins Catholic Partnership Schools as the new principal at St. Anthony of Padua School in the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden. Dr. Burke brings to the Partnership more than 20 years experience as an educational consultant, teacher, school principal, and professor of education. She has designed, evaluated, and assessed programs for [...]

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