St. Albert the Great Elementary School

There are or have been over thirty Catholic elementary schools within the Archdiocese of Louisville.

Ascension Elementary School serves grades PreK-8 within the Archdiocese of Louisville. Sports teams compete under the title "The Ascension Longhorns".

The school is in the St. Regis Park neighborhood of Louisville,Kentucky currently serves about 370 students with 35 teachers plus supporting staff. It teaches the core curriculum, in addition to art, music, computer, Physical Education and Spanish classes.

The Ascension Longhorns have a long established history of success in athletics, of which the most notoriety has been garnered by the now disbanded football program. During the 1990s, the boys football programs amassed 8 Toy Bowl Championships and multiple undefeated seasons, defeating opponents by an average of 35.6 points a game. This success earned the program a chance to be featured on the cover of the Team Cheerios cereal box in a national competition, of which it placed as runner up. In 2008, however, the Ascension football program was placed on hiatus and merged with nearby St. Martha due to dwindling student attendance, a trend observed both locally and nationally for Catholic schools.

The Ascension Longhorns are known for being a yearly contender for the Toy Bowl Championship, and the annual basketball Christmas tournament. Their success can be attributed to their advanced athletic facilities for a middle/grade school. With two football fields, the Longhorns can focus on improving football teams on all grade levels at once. At the same time, the gymnasium boasts 1.5 basketball courts. This allows for longer practices, as well as a larger perimeter for the athletes to run laps. The extra half basketball court was added during the Maureen Clerkin administration in the early 2000s.

Ascension has been cited by numerous local and national sport commentators as a key indicator when it comes to a college coach's decision on scoping football recruits.

closed in 2002 in the Archiocesian 2000 Plan

Opened in 1927 at its current site on Poplar Level Road. HISTORY The Camp Taylor neighborhood in Louisville grew out of a World War I Army camp. At the request of residents known as the "Catholic Welfare Club of Camp Taylor," a Catholic school was established as an offshoot of St. Elizabeth Parish in 1923. The school was a soldiers' barracks remodeled by the club members and made into two classrooms. Two Sisters of Charity of Nazareth taught the seventy-seven children who were enrolled. Soon after, Mass was offered in one of the classrooms on an altar improvised from desks. Camp Taylor became a mission in 1924 and then a mission church of St. Elizabeth in 1926. A new two-story, modern school opened on May 22, 1927, with the second floor made into a temporary church. In November 1928, Father Francis J. Timoney was appointed the first resident pastor. A temporary basement church was built in 1939, which served until July 1996. As Holy Family's membership increased, three new churches were carved out of the parish: St. Stephen Martyr in 1948 and Resurrection and Guardian Angels in 1957. The present church was dedicated on May 28, 1997. From its founding until the last decades of the twentieth century the parish utilized farm houses, Quonset huts and other buildings for its various ministries. From a patchwork of Army barracks to a modern church campus, the parish has been enriched by the patchwork of nearly 1,700 parishioners who gather as Holy Family Parish. - Holy Family School closed May 30, 2014 due to declining enrollment and increasing parish costs. Sources

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