St. Sebastian Regional Catholic School History

Parochial school classes opened for the first time at St. Sebastian Regional Catholic School on September 11, 1956. Sisters of the Franciscan Order (who resided temporarily at St. Leonard’s Convent in Monessen) greeted 67 first and second-grade students in the beautifully modern classrooms on the ground floor of the new church building. Plans at the time called for adding a grade each school year until a complete eighth-grade curriculum was established. Construction on the school building began in 1958, and classes began in the present school building in 1960.