Teaching and facilities
The school teaches grades Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade. HNJ School is accredited by the Florida Catholic Conference. The principal is Mary Ann Irwin. There is an enrollment of 255 students, from preschool at 3 years through 8th grade.
HNJ teaches the basic subjects of History, Math, and English, Art, Music, Computers, Spanish, and Physical education.
There are 28 classrooms including science lab, library, music and art room. There are at least four multimedia computers in every classroom, all networked internally and hooked up to the Internet, two mobile iPad labs and there is also a computer lab with 30 computers with Internet access. Middle school students work from Samsung Galaxy Note tablets in every class, with many textbooks now coming to the digital format. Teaching in all grade levels integrates technology into the curriculum.
History
The children of HNJ parish attended Ascension School, which opened in September 1961, staffed by the Irish Sisters of Mercy, from Ardee, Ireland.
In March, 1964, the new school began with approximately 50 students attending classes in the church hall.
By September 1964, the school building was completed and housed the first four grades that school year. Each year an additional grade was added through the eighth grade. In 1965 portable buildings were added and in 1968 a kindergarten class was opened.
The HNJ School Board’s five-year plan, which included five new classrooms, was completed in time for the 1998-99 school year.
In 2009 there were 260 students enrolled in PK-8.
| Principals of HNJ School |
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- Sister Monica 1964-1969? Sister of Mercy, Ardee, Ireland
- Sister Rosari 1969?-1974 Sisters of Mercy, Ardee, Ireland
- Sister Jane,OP [5] (1974–76)
- Sister Janet,OP 1976-1977, joint principal with
- Sister Ruth, joint principal (1976–77)
- Sister Shirley Hinks, (1977–1980)
- Sister Rosemary Conlon OP (1980–84)
- Sister Kathleen Gelatko LSF (1984–85)
- Joyce Falk (1985–86)
- Duane Schafer (1986–89)
- Bruce Tepfer (1989–92)
- Lois Scrivener (1992–2006)
- Sister Teresa Bruno (2006–2009)
- Ms. MaryEllen Massey 2009-2012)
- Sister Joseph Barden (2012–2012)
- Mary Ann Irwin (2012-
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