New Catholic School To Open In Baltimore Where Infamous Housing Complex Featured In ‘The Wire’ Once Stood

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A caller Catholic schoolhouse is acceptable to unfastened successful Baltimore metropolis wherever the infamous Lexington Terrace Housing Complex — featured successful HBO’s “The Wire” — erstwhile stood.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore said it’s the archetypal Catholic schoolhouse to beryllium built successful the metropolis successful astir 60 years. Mother Mary Lange Catholic School will invited 400 students erstwhile it opens successful August.

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“This schoolhouse volition beryllium much than a awesome of revitalization and rebirth for the country but besides assets for the community,” said Archbishop of Baltimore William E. Lori. “Accessible acquisition is specified a captious constituent of sustainability for immoderate metropolis and acquisition has been astatine the halfway of the Catholic Church’s ngo successful the United States for 200 years, and this caller halfway of acquisition excellence volition supply a safe, nurturing situation to make endowment and imaginable portion providing a pathway to occurrence for our youth.”

The 65,000-square-foot schoolhouse astatine 200 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard volition big students, PreK3 done eighth grade, from 40 zip codes astir the metropolis and adjacent counties.

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They expect 520 students to beryllium enrolled successful the archetypal 4 years. The bulk of non-Catholic students volition suffice for tuition assistance.

“We are excited to unfastened our doors and invited our students to this astonishing caller school, providing a beacon of anticipation for each kid who walks done its doors,” said Alisha Jordan, main astatine Mother Mary Lange Catholic School.

The school’s namesake founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence successful 1829 — the archetypal spiritual assemblage of women of African descent arsenic good the archetypal Catholic schoolhouse for children of color. The Vatican is reviewing Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange’s origin for canonization to sainthood.

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A ribbon-cutting for the schoolhouse volition beryllium held connected Aug. 6 astatine 9 a.m.

CBS Baltimore Staff