History of Santa Rosa de Lima School
Santa Rosa de Lima Elementary School opened in February 1954 with five grades, an enrollment of 151, and a staff of five Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conceptions. An additional classroom was added during each of the next three years until a total of eight existed. The enrollment has continued to be predominantly Mexican-American students.
Santa Rosa underwent its first self evaluation in April 1975. The student body consisted of 343 students taught by seven Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and two lay teachers.
Form B-1 Evaluation followed in March of 1979. A staff of six Sisters and three lay teachers served 336 students. Form B-2, undertaken in April 1983, saw 343 students taught by six Sisters and four lay teachers. In 1987, Santa Rosa’s fourth self study, New Approach Form, listed the enrollment at 338. The school was staffed by five Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and five lay teachers.
In 1992 Form B was used for its fifth self study. Santa Rosa was successful accreditation through June 30, 1988. Six Sisters and four lay teachers with an enrollment of 342 students staffed the school.
Santa Rosa de Lima School is now in its 55th year of serving the parish and community. In February of 1988 it underwent its sixth self study evaluation using Form B. Once again Santa Rosa de Lima School was Successful accredited through March 2010, by the Western Association of School and Colleges and by the Western Catholic Education Association.
