Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child

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Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child is a private Roman Catholic K-12 day school in Summit, New Jersey. It is coeducational up through sixth grade, and girls-only from seventh grade on. The school is served by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The school is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.

Oak Knoll School is unique among New Jersey's Catholic independent schools in offering coeducational opportunities in the primary grades and single-sex education for the secondary grades.

[edit] History

The school was founded in 1924 by six Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus and seven lay teachers who came to the United States to create the Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child from the site of the Larned Estate in Summit.

The 9-acre site originally included the stone manor house "Stoneover" (now known as "Grace Hall"), built in 1887. A stable, located where Connelly Hall now stands, provided gym and classroom space for the Junior School. Two houses on Prospect Street also contained classrooms and convent space. In 1954, Bonaventura Hall was constructed for the elementary grades, and in 1956, construction on the new Upper School, Connelly Hall, was completed.

Oak Knoll's has grown from 17 students to an enrollment of 538 students for the 2003-2004 school year.