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

As part of their coverage on Women’s History Month, the current issue of the Catholic Review contains a profile on Sister Sharon Slear, Executive Director of Academics at Notre Dame Pre, and an alumna from the Class of 1961. Sister Sharon is a transformational leader in education, and the article...
On Friday, March 1, the Class of 2030 took part in their first of many spiritual retreats together at Notre Dame Prep. The retreat’s main theme was Discovering Who You Are As a Child of God. 
For the 27 Notre Dame Preparatory School students who attended the 2024 Model UN Conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, the world just got a little smaller and their global perspectives much bigger - By Cami Colarossi, NDP Communications Director

Academy of the Holy Angels

Annika Castillo, an aspiring medical doctor from Cresskill, New, Jersey, made a significant choice during her first year at the Academy of the Holy Angels: She joined the Operation Smile club.
Human trafficking survivor Theresa Flores shared her chilling story at the Academy of the Holy Angels Upper School on February 7. Her program included important  details about how traffickers find victims and how students can protect themselves, recognize signs of trafficking, and take action to...
Two Academy of the Holy Angels seniors have spearheaded two different projects that support sustainability on the Demarest campus.

Notre Dame of Maryland

On May 25, Notre Dame of Maryland University honored Sister Margaret Ellen Mahoney for her golden jubilee of 60 years as an SSND and for 35 years of service to NDMU! Congratulations to the 33 NDMU faculty and staff who celebrated milestone anniversaries.
Notre Dame of Maryland University will establish a $1.5 million endowed chair position to advance groundbreaking research and scholarship in biology, as well as elevate NDMU as a leader in STEM and health sciences in Baltimore and beyond.
Sister Therese Marie Dougherty and Evelyn Spratt, Director of the Morrissy Honors Program at Notre Dame of Maryland University, led two Morrissy Honors students on an SSND Heritage tour May 23-30. Following in the footsteps of Blessed Theresa and Mother Caroline, the participants read relevant...

Institute of Notre Dame Alumnae News

Through my four years at IND, she helped me build my self-confidence at a time when many girls struggle to gain it.
A service day at IND

Forty years after most schools have left Baltimore for the suburbs, the Institute of Notre Dame (IND) remains where Blessed Mother Theresa Gerhardinger, the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s foundress, established it more than 167 years ago: in East Baltimore, two blocks from the world-renowned...

Who says girls don’t like STEM, shorthand for science, technology, engineering and math? Can’t prove it at the Institute of Notre Dame, where one‐third of students are enrolled in either biomedical sciences or engineering programs.

STEM is an issue of great importance to our nation....

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.