History

"Through these doors pass our greatest gifts... God's children."

In 1994, Bishop Sean O’Malley, then Bishop of the Fall River Diocese, envisioned a need for Cape Cod to have a Catholic high school and Catholic elementary schools built on the Cape. In 1998, Bishop O’Malley asked Monsignor John J. Smith of St. Pius X Parish if the parish would build the first new Catholic elementary school. The groundbreaking ceremony for the school occurred in May of 2003. The school was completed in February of 2004. It is fitting that Saint Pius X School opened in 2004, as it was the 50th Anniversary of the founding of St. Pius X Parish. Our parish was the first parish established by the Fall River Diocese after Pope Pius X was canonized and the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Fall River by Pope Pius X.

St. Pius X School opened its doors to students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through four in September 2004, with a staff of experienced teachers and a veteran principal, Mrs. Patricia G. Marmen, who had overseen the designing and construction of the building. A fifth grade was added the following school year. The school expanded to include a departmentalized Middle School, welcoming sixth, seventh and eighth graders in September 2006.