Largest Parochial School in the World Was Here
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Largest Parochial School in the World Was Here

Kevin Purcell wrote a memoir (see www.phillywarzone.com) centered on race relations in Southwest Philadelphia while he was growing up. Clark DeLeon interviewed him in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/19/13, at p. C2. About this school, the column says that MSB was one of those 'too big to be true' Catholic schools - 100 children in a first-grade classroom taught by one nun. In 1964, when he entered first grade, Purcell says, MBS had five first-grade classrooms that size. Total enrollment through eighth grade was close to 3,500, giving MBS the perversely celebrated title of 'largest parochial grade school in the world.

Publication date Jun 24, 2018
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Kevin Purcell wrote a memoir (see www.phillywarzone.com) centered on race relations in Southwest Philadelphia while he was growing up. Clark DeLeon interviewed him in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/19/13, at p. C2. About this school, the column says that MSB was one of those 'too big to be true' Catholic schools - 100 children in a first-grade classroom taught by one nun. In 1964, when he entered first grade, Purcell says, MBS had five first-grade classrooms that size. Total enrollment through eighth grade was close to 3,500, giving MBS the perversely celebrated title of 'largest parochial grade school in the world.

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Most Blessed Sacrament School , 5628 Chester Ave. , 1730 South 56th Street , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19143, United States
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