St Rose Catholic School in Longview, Cowlitz County, United States | School

Welcome to St Rose Catholic School, Longview, United States. As a Catholic faith community, in partnership with families, St. Rose School provides children with a Christ-centered environment that promotes faith development, academic excellence and a commitment to service.

Philosophy of Education

It is the belief of St. Rose Parish School that families, parish, and School work in partnership to provide a strong Catholic educational experience to its students in preparation for life.

1. The education of children is first and foremost the responsibility of the family. It is in the home that concepts, attitudes, and behavioral patterns are formed and that have a strong bearing on the direction and progress of a child's education.

2. Saint Rose Parish assists parents to be effective teachers of religious education by providing the opportunities for spiritual growth through liturgical and volunteer experiences. The parish also partners with home and School to prepare children for the reception of the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist.

3. The School's role is to coordinate the academic education and supplement it with other tenets of the School philosophy. With teachers as facilitators, St Rose Catholic School reflects a commitment to the Catholic faith, provides an atmosphere that allows students to reach their academic potential, encourages the development of social skills, and promotes lifelong learning.

Enrollment at St. Rose has varied over the years, reaching, at one point, as many as 400, and dropping to a low of 118 and threatening to close the School. Staff turned to the parish, which overwhelmingly supported keeping the School open. Parents of students worked tirelessly to make it a reality and although circumstances necessitated that some of the upper grades be dropped in the 1970's, in 1994 a fund-raising campaign, following much discussion, resulted in the decision to add grades 6, 7, and 8 which had been dropped some years before.

St Rose Catholic School, Longview has produced a number of religious vocations. Father Joe Maier, a Redemptorist priest working in the slums of Bangkok; Father Bill McKee, a diocesan priest, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Seattle; Father John McDonough, a Dominican priest, working in communications in San Fancisco; and Father Brian Snyder, a diocesan priest, hospital chaplain at Virginia Mason in Seattle. Father Derek Lappe is pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Camas. Linda Little is in the Novitiate at St. Placid's in Olympia.