Strengthening and sustaining schools

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.  

Latest News

Partnership Recognized as Leader in Movement to Reinvent Catholic Education

  Sister Karen Dietrich accepts the Innovation in Education Award on behalf of the Partnership at a recent reception at the Harvard Club in Boston during the National Catholic Education Association conference. Pictured with her are event lead sponsors Cullen Schippe, President of Peter Li Publishing, and Stacy Long, Strategic Business Unit Manager, The Velcro Companies. One [...]

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Hundreds Turn Out for the 2nd Annual Dreams of Our Children Event on May 15th

The Rutgers University Student Center and main stage of the Gordon Theater pulsed with creative energy and enthusiasm as an overflow crowd of families, friends, benefactors, and community artists turned out to support our students on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Guests first mingled with our young student artists as they proudly stood by their impressive [...]

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Our Spring News Letter is Out!

Read the 2012 Spring News Letter Issue 1. here.

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Children’s Scholarship Fund President: School Choice Changes Lives

Children’s Scholarship Fund provides the Partnership with the matching funds to underwrite tuition assistance for more than 300 of our children. Skip to 6:17 on the video to hear more about their other national partners. Read more on Newsmax.com

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National Recognition for the Partnership

Catholic Partnership Schools has been recognized for its innovative ‘restructuring and merging’ of schools by  Today’s Catholic Teacher Teacher, a national publication. We are one of 12 national recipients in this their 15th Catholic Schools for Tomorrow/Innovations in Education Award.  The winners appear in the just published March 2012 edition of the magazine. Other categories, in addition [...]

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Sr. Karen Dietrich Speaks on WMMR 93.3 FM – Public Affairs

Sr. Karen Dietrich and Lori Chaffers speak about the Catholic Partnership Schools model with Markus Goldman. This innovative model is attracting attention in the wake of Catholic school closings in Philadelphia. Listen to the interview here: http://www.wmmr.com/shows/weekends/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10342388

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We Need the Opportunity Scholarship Act

Catholic Partnership students from Holy Name School urge Governor to insure passage of the OSA2 bill …. quickly.
Watch to video now..

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CPS Choir Spreads Christmas Cheer!

Are you listening? Can you hear it? It is the sound of children…singing. They are spreading Christmas Cheer by caroling throughout Camden’s downtown. In this city, where violence is on the rise and State Police are now providing back up for our Camden Police, our children are sharing little rays of light and hope and [...]

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The Greater South Jersey Chorus Visits the CPS Choir

In the late summer of 2011, Mary Willard of the Greater South Jersey Chorus approached the Catholic Partnership Schools to see if a partnership was a possibility. Several meetings took place and the partnership between the CPS Choir and the GSJC Chorus began to take shape. This week, 40 adults from the GSJC joined with [...]

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Camden Diocese Principal of the Year – Mrs. Fran Montgomery, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral

Each year, the superintendent in each arch/dioceses in the country is invited by the Department of Elementary Schools Executive Committee of the NCEA to nominate one of their principals for the National Distinguished Principal Award. We are pleased to announce that Fran Montgomery, the principal at St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School, is being recognized as the Principal [...]

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