Classrooms at Our Lady of Mercy blessed

Posted at: 09/05/2012 12:33 PM | Updated at: 09/05/2012 9:01 PM

The two same-sex catholic high schools in Rochester are both enrolling sixth graders for the first time this year.

News10NBC was at Our Lady of Mercy Wednesday morning as a spiritual director blessed the classrooms being used by the young women in the class of 2019.

Mercy opened in 1928 as a high school and seventh and eighth graders were added in 1990, now there is a sixth grade

Middle School Director Nancy Wunder said, “It's been exciting, it's been nerve-wracking, it's been up and down but we're opening with 35 young ladies and it's extremely exciting.”

McQuaid Jesuit, the all-boys Catholic school, also has sixth graders enrolled for the first time.

Over the summer, six classrooms were added to accommodate the new students.

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