SSND Founded Schools and Co-Sponsored Ministries

Sponsored ministries are organizations in which SSND is the sole sponsoring congregation. 

Co-Sponsored Ministries are one of the ways SSND fulfils its mission and implements its educational vision.

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Sponsored High Schools

Co-Sponsored Middle Schools

University of Notre Dame of Maryland

The SSNDs established College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1895 as the first Catholic college for women in the United States to award the four-year baccalaureate degree. Learn more about Notre Dame of Maryland University's undergraduate and graduate programs for women (and men) in Baltimore, MD at https://www.ndm.edu

Notre Dame Preparatory School

On Wednesday, January 29, the Notre Dame Preparatory School Community held a very special Catholic Schools Week liturgy, at which Archbishop William E. Lori presided. As part of the celebration, a special tribute was given to Sister Patricia McCarron, SSND, Ph.D., for her 20 years of service to NDP...
NDP is now seeking its next Head of School. In partnership with a dedicated leadership team, the next Head of School will lead one of the nation's most treasured Catholic girls' schools. With an exceptional faculty and staff deeply committed to the mission of NDP, a proud and joyful student body,...
Congratulations to Sister Patricia McCarron on receiving The Daily Record’s Icon Honors! The Icon Honors Award recognizes those professionals over 60 for their notable success and demonstration of strong leadership within and outside their fields.

Academy of the Holy Angels

It was our 175th Foundation Day, Oct. 24, 2008.  Sister Ginny Bobrowski, principal, had invited me to come to the Academy of the Holy Angels to speak to the student body about Mother Theresa. My talk was to include the history, spirit and mission of SSND, along with the faithfulness of AHA to...
Joan Connelly, the Academy of the Holy Angels' director of mission and ministry, will be retiring July 1. Joan's 28 years of service to the Academy include work as a religious studies teacher and director of mission and ministry. She has invested countless hours organizing faculty retreats,...
A handful of tenacious teens from Holy Angels spent the night of June 7 at the Academy’s first Sleep Out. Together, these students raised $5,410 to benefit Covenant House, an organization that provides shelter for young people who are experiencing homelessness and trafficking. 

Notre Dame of Maryland

Congratulations to NDMU on being named the fastest-growing college in the region, by The Baltimore Business Journal!! #NDMUproud
It was 1983, and Velma Sampson and her mom were touring the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Velma was anxious.  "I was not ready to leave home and stay on a campus of women from all walks of life. In fact, I was called a hermit at home. But when I stepped into a French class taught by Sister...
Five NDMU Morrissy Honors Program students traveled down Charles Street to Johns Hopkins to present original research on a variety of topics at the 2024 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium!

Institute of Notre Dame Alumnae News

By Sister Patricia Murphy, SSND

The morning of June 5, Villa Assumpta Sisters were treated to a traveling exhibit of IND heritage that is permanently housed at Notre Dame of Maryland University.  

On May 15, 2021, archival documents from the Institute of Notre Dame (IND) arrived safe and sound at their new home at the School Sisters of Notre Dame's North American Archives (NAA) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Even though the Institute of Notre Dame closed its doors on June 30, 2020, residents of the Latrobe homes directly across Aisquith Street received traditional Thanksgiving boxes as gifts from the IND Alumnae Association. On Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Alumnae Reunion Mass, Fr. Tom Malia, from Mercy...

Founded in 1833 with the belief that education of girls is the foundation for a healthy society, the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the Atlantic Midwest Province continues
to sponsor young people's education.