New era begins at St. Patrick’s in Bay Ridge
Wednesday marked the beginning of the school year for thousands of children who attend Catholic schools in Brooklyn. But for the students of St. Patrick Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge in particular, it was the start of a new academic and spiritual journey.
Unlike the previous 150 opening days in St. Patrick’s rich history, Sept. 4 marked the school’s debut as an independent Catholic academy run by a board of directors. For the first 150 years of its existence, the school had operated under the direction of St. Patrick Church.