School News

Enrollment & Financial Aid Information 2023 - 2024

Open enrollment to attend St. Cecilia Cathedral Grade School will open during Catholic Schools Week (January 28 - February 2). We will be utilizing the same online process through Blackbaud this year. Deadline for enrollment for current students is May 1, 2023. After that date, enrollment will open to new families who have toured throughout the school year and been accepted to enroll.

In the meantime, please check out the Children's Scholarship Fund. Applications open on February 14 and close on May 5. We received 31 scholarships for a total of $48,425 for this school year from Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF). Every dollar we received from CSF helps our parish/school budget so we encourage all who qualify for CSF to apply. Did you know that if you are awarded funding for the 23-24 school year, those dollars have the potential to be awarded to your child up through their 8th grade year. CSF is a separate tuition-assistance program from our parish financial aid. CSF is a scholarship and St. Cecilia parish is tuition aid.

Advent - Week 1 - Hope

Advent - Week 1 - Hope

Advent is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ's second coming at the end of time and to the anniversary of Our Lord's birth on Christmas. Below is an Advent music list that our Anna Kolterman, our school liturgist, put together for our classrooms. Feel free to listen to this in the car on the way to school, while making supper, or really whenever you want to!

Advent Play List


There are also awesome Advent music lists on Hallow, a Catholic meditation, sleep, and prayer app. So many options to help you prepare your mind, heart, and home for Christmas.

ABC Wreath and Poinsettia Sale Oct. 4 - Nov. 3

October 4th is our kick off day for ABC's annual Wreath & Poinsettia sale! Students will bring home order forms and information today in their THT folders. Please contact Christine Koehn with any questions.

Order Form

ALL ORDERS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 3RD!

Wreath and poinsettia pick up will be some time the week of November 28th (details TBD).




 

Sign up to Join the St. Cecilia Dad's Club

Are you a dad, or someone who is like a dad to someone at St. Cecilia? We are starting "Dad’s Club" - a social club for anyone who fits that description and wants to help out with a few projects around the school. If interested, please click on the button below and fill out the form to get the notifications.

Our first meeting is Wednesday, September 14th, at 7pm. St. Cecilia’s cornerstone is its' community, let’s put that good will to good use.

Sign-up


8th Grade ABC Banquet Highlights

The ABC 8th Grade Banquet was held on Saturday, May 7th. Here are some of the highlights from the event.

Catholic High School Scholarships:

Roncalli Scholarships: Olivia O., Luke S., Andre A., Penelope A., Sara M., Josie A.
Mercy Scholarships: Alyssa W. & Bridget H.
Marian Scholarships: Reilly O. & Eleanor K.
Creighton Prep Scholarships: Louis H. & James K.
Duchesne Scholarships: Lizzie T., Bridget N., Evie L.

Parish Endowment Scholarships:

The following students submitted a writing sample in response to a prompt as an application for our $500 parish endowment scholarships. These students wrote about how their Catholic education at St. Cecilia has helped form them as young adults. We are blessed to have the support of our parish for our families.

Bridget F. - Mainelli Scholarship to Marian High
Julia D. - Larson Scholarship to Duchesne Academy
Audrey B. - Mans Scholarship to Mercy High
Madeline B. - Dwyer Scholarship to Marian High
Alice H. - Baxter Scholarship to Mercy High
Sawyer H. - Adam Herald Scholarship to Creighton Prep
Millie K. - Stych Scholarship to Mercy High
Glen K. - Barmettler Scholarship to Creigton Prep
Beau L. - Childers Scholarship to Creighton Prep

ABC Scholarships:

Each year, the Activities Booster Club (ABC), awards scholarships to students who apply and have shown the true character of a St. Cecilia student, both in and out of the classroom. This year there were four scholarship winners:

Amir K. - Creighton Prep
Jack L. - Creighton Prep
Arianna H. - Marian High
Kennedy G. - Buena Vista High

Rotary Honor Roll

Eleanor K. & Louis H.


Playground Update - Joy of Giving

Playground Update - Joy of Giving May 2nd - 17th

We are currently at 93% of our fundraising goal for the school playground! Thankful for ABC and Home & School for providing a $13,500 donation this past month.

Some of you have asked "We are so close to our goal, what else can we do?!" The next chance to donate for the playground is through Joy of Giving Day. This 24-hour day of giving benefits all parishes, schools, ministries, and organizations of the Archdiocese of Omaha.

We have been in contact with our playground company and they said construction could start as early as August if we can get our funding wrapped up this Spring! Help be a part of making this dream come true for our students by donating.

joy of giving