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

Academy of the Holy Angels

One hundred and four exceptional young women graduated from the Academy of the Holy Angels on June 3. The 142nd graduating class gathered at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, NJ for Mass and the commencement ceremony. The Class of 2022 earned acceptance to some of the nation’s...
Student Council leaders at the Academy of the Holy Angels, sent homemade videos and a digital Advent calendar to the children from Saint Peter the Apostle School in Philadelphia. Both schools were founded by the SSNDs, and traditionally celebrate Saint Nicholas Day together. While in-person visits...
Erin Ha, a teen tennis phenomenon from Tenafly, recently won the USTA National Girls’ 16-and-Under Indoor Singles Championship. Ha transferred this year to the Academy of the Holy Angels, where she is a junior.

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.