​​​​​School History

On September 10, 1950, Archbishop James Francis McIntyre dedicated Saint Gertrude the Great School and on the next day, the school opened with 110 students. Sr. Mary Giovanni of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was the Principal. The parish was under the pastoral care of Fr. Thomas O’Malley. In 1968, the parish/school hall was dedicated and in 1969 Fr. Henry Gomez was assigned to the parish. He served Saint Gertrude the Great for over thirty years. In 1968, the administration of the school was given over the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians better known as the Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco. In 1982 and 1983, the school experienced tremendous growth and added three new classrooms. In 1987, a modular classroom was added for the eighth grade and library. In 1990, the school built two more modular buildings. One that serves as a kindergarten classroom that opened in October of that year, and the other opened as a computer lab in February of 1991. A science lab was generously provided to the school by the Shea Foundation in 2017.​

In 2019, the pastor of St. Gertrude the Great Parish Church, Father Nabor Rios, began discussions with SHEA Family Charities to add a new building to the campus that would replace all the modular units of the school. Planning for this new building began soon after (with a 5 month interruption due to Covid-19). ​The new building was completed in January 2022. Archbishop José​ Gomez performed a dedication/blessing of the new building on February 2, 2022. The new building includes the following: Multi-grade STEM lab, new classrooms for Transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten and First Grade, a faculty lounge, counselors office, new playground area and PE garage.​

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