2014-15 Catholic school calendar of important dates

– 2014 –

AUGUST
➤ Aug. 15, Feast of the Assumption, archdiocesan offices closed

SEPTEMBER
➤ Sept. 1, Labor Day, archdiocesan offices closed

OCTOBER
➤ Oct. 2, Cabrini High School open house
➤ Oct. 7, St. Katharine Drexel Prep open house
➤ Oct. 8, St. Charles Catholic High School open house
➤ Oct. 9, Mount Carmel Academy open house
➤ Oct. 15-17, Catholic Administrators Conference, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
➤ Oct. 16, Academy of Our Lady and Holy Cross School open house
➤ Oct. 21, Holy Rosary High School open house
➤ Oct. 22, Academy of the Sacred Heart open house
➤ Oct. 23, Archbishop Hannan High School, Archbishop Rummel High School and St. Mary’s Dominican High School open house
➤ Oct. 26, World Youth Day New Orleans, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
➤ Oct. 28, St. Mary’s Academy open house
➤ Oct. 29, St. Augustine High School open house
➤ Oct. 30, Pope John Paul II High School and Ursuline Academy open house

NOVEMBER
➤ Nov. 1, All Saints Day; St. Paul’s School and St. Scholastica Academy open house
➤ Nov. 3, Archbishop Shaw High School open house
➤ Nov. 4, De La Salle High School open house
➤ Nov. 5, Jesuit High School open house
➤ Nov. 6, Archbishop Chapelle High School and Brother Martin High School open house
➤ Nov. 10, applications to Catholic high schools available to elementary school students/parents on archdiocesan website (ocs.arch-no.org)
➤ Nov. 12, high school applications returned to Catholic elementary schools
➤ Nov. 14, applications and records sent by elementary schools to high schools
➤ Nov. 27-28, archdiocesan offices closed for Thanksgiving

DECEMBER
➤ Dec. 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, archdiocesan offices closed
➤ Dec. 16, Christmas luncheon sponsored by the Council of Catholic School Cooperative Clubs, Sheraton Hotel. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.
➤ Dec. 23-Jan. 2, archdiocesan offices closed in observance of Christmas

– 2015 –

JANUARY
➤ Jan. 8-10, Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference (formerly Johannes Hofinger Conference)
➤ Jan. 10, High school application day, 8 a.m.
➤ Jan. 19, Dr. Martin Luther King Day, archdiocesan offices closed
➤ Jan. 19-24, CYO March for Life pilgrimage to Washington, D.C.
➤ Jan. 24-25, Second collection in all parishes of the Archdiocese of New Orleans to support Catholic schools
➤ Jan. 25-31, Catholic Schools Weeks and Catholic Schools Arts and Music Festival, Lakeside Shopping Center
➤ Jan. 26-30, Elementary school registration for returning students

FEBRUARY
➤ Feb. 16-17, Archdiocesan offices closed for Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras
➤ Feb. 26, Letters of acceptance to Catholic high schools mailed to families
➤ Feb. 23-27, Elementary school registration for new students

MARCH
➤ March 21, Abbey Youth Fest, St. Joseph’s Abbey, Covington
➤ March 23, Archdiocesan College Fair

APRIL
➤ April 3 and April 6, Archdiocesan offices closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday
➤ April 7-9, Annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Orlando, Florida
➤ April 14-17, LEAP and iLEAP testing
➤ April 15-17, April 20-22, computer-based ACT Aspire testing
➤ April 20-24: TerraNova testing and paper/pencil version of ACT Aspire tests
➤ April 29, Calling All Fifth-Graders vocations awareness program

MAY
➤ May 25, Memorial Day, archdiocesan offices closed

JUNE
➤ June 1-3, Common Core workshops
➤ June 8-11, Loyola Catholic Leadership Institute