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 March 30, 2019, Sister Alice Zachmann, SSND will be honored in Washington, DC, as one of 12 “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence.”

Academy of the Holy Angels

On October 11, multiple students from the Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest, New Jersey, attended the United Nations' Tenth Annual International Day of the Girl. This call for girls’ rights attracts participants from far and wide, including Holy Angels, which has been dedicated to the...

Fall Open House at the Academy of the Holy Angels Upper School (October 2) attracted over 250 guests. Future Angels quickly made connections as they spoke with administrators, faculty, staff, parent volunteers, and current students about all aspects of Academy life.

https://atlanticmidwest.org/posts/aha-143rd-anniversary-congratulates-new-eucharistic-ministers
The Academy of the Holy Angels observed the school's 143rd anniversary at the annual Feast Day Mass (September 30). Feast Day commemorates the October 2, 1879 signing of the deed for the Academy’s original campus in Fort Lee. Sister Mary Nonna Dunphy, SSND, signed the document on the Feast of the...

Notre Dame of Maryland

Institute of Notre Dame Alumnae News

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.