Marian Catholic High School

Marian Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown. It was established in 1954 after the consolidation of St. Jerome's High School in Tamaqua, St. Mary's High School in Coaldale, and St. Ann's High School in Lansford. Its original location consisted of a three town campus located in the towns of Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford. Marian Catholic's current campus was constructed on farmland in Rush Township in 1964. History Marian Catholic High School was formed in 1954, consolidating three smaller Catholic High Schools from the small towns in the Panther Valley. It was then that Archbishop John F. O’Hara decided to combine the three existing schools into one diocesan high school. The high school was staffed by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The oldest high school was St. Mary's in Coaldale. Although ground was broken for a Catholic school at St. Mary's in Coaldale on November 18, 1914, and construction completed in March 1915, it would not be until 1924 that a high school class would graduate. On September 4, 1916, during the formal dedication, St. Mary's became the first English-speaking Catholic school in the Panther Valley. St. Ann's High School in Lansford began in September 1917 in the church basement. Classes in the school building began in 1924 under the guidance of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. St. Ann's High School was established in 1922, but it was not until June 1927 that the first students to finish a full four years at the school graduated.