About Risen Christ School

MISSION
Risen Christ Catholic School is committed to developing the spiritual, academic, social, physical, and leadership gifts of all of our children.  We promote collaboration with families and the community in order to affirm and embrace our cultural diversity within a safe, academically challenging, and Christian learning environment.

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT
Risen Christ Catholic School believes in:

• Offering quality Catholic educational opportunities to all students who choose to partake, including students from diverse family, financial, religious, and cultural backgrounds from our surrounding communities.

• Influencing all aspects of education with the Gospel message and Christian values.

• Providing a core academic curriculum, teaching students to read, write, reason and communicate effectively.

• Maintaining standards of quality, excellence, and achievement without sacrificing service to those students and families in financial need.

• Enriching the lives of our children by collaborating with local faith communities in order to provide meaningful, ecumenical, and multicultural service, worship, and program opportunities.

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HISTORY
Risen Christ Catholic School is a consolidation of five parish Catholic elementary schools. The five parishes—Incarnation, Holy Name, St. Stephen’s, St. Albert the Great and Holy Rosary—have a long history of providing Catholic education for its members and the surrounding community. In 1993, the decision was made to consolidate the schools into one in order to ensure the long-term future of Catholic elementary education in these south Minneapolis neighborhoods – and Risen Christ School was born.

While it began as a consolidation of five Catholic parish schools, the school embraces children from many different churches. In addition to the five founding parishes, students from 13 other Catholic churches and 31 non-Catholic churches attend Risen Christ School.

The five founding parishes continue to play a central role in the life of the school and a number of sponsoring churches now support the mission of Risen Christ. St. Olaf’s in downtown Minneapolis, St. Patrick’s in Edina and Pax Christi in Eden Prairie are a few of the parishes that have volunteers actively involved at Risen Christ. Students from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area Catholic high schools and colleges are also volunteers at Risen Christ.

When Risen Christ opened its doors in the fall of 1993, there were two campuses – one for grades K-2 and the other for grades 3-8. In September 2003, the school opened as one campus after completion of a $3.7 million renovation and expansion. In addition to adding new kindergarten, science and math classrooms, the project included a new media center and computer lab, an entirely new kitchen for the hot lunch program, a new elevator, new playground and improvements to every classroom in the school building.

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ADMINISTRATION / FACULTY / STAFF

School Phone Number:  612-822-5329   

Fax Number:  612-729-2336

General email: info@risenchristschool.org

Staff Directory - click here

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Banovetz, Board Chair
Corporate Planning & Strategy, 3M Company

Rev. Joseph Gillespie, Canonical Administrator
Pastor, Church of St. Albert the Great

Andy Bauer
VP & CFO, Miller Milling

Craig Erickson
Erickson & Associates, P.A.

Jane Fennell
Coordinator, Murray Institute
University of St. Thomas

Bill Hanley
Lowry Hill Law Offices

Dr. Bill Hudson
President, Totino Grace High School

Dr. Sue Huber
Executive VP, University of St. Thomas

Maria Lara
Family Liaison, Anderson Family Resource Center

Bill Makens
President, Royal Concrete Products, Inc.

Frank Miley
Director of Development, Cretin-Derham Hall High Schoo

John McCarty
Owner/CEO, The St. Paul Development Corporationl

Rev. Kevin McDonough
Pastor, Church of the Incarnation

Bonnie O’Connor
VP Professional Services, Fairview Medical Services (retired)

Deborah Organ
Pastoral Associate, Holy Rosary Church

Kelly Regan
Vice President of Marketing, Premier Banks

Rev. Jim Spahn
Pastor, Holy Rosary Catholic Church

Rev. Leo Schneider
Pastor, Church of the Holy Name

Rev. Joseph Williams
Pastor, Church of St. Stephen

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RISEN CHRIST STAFF ON BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Helen Dahlman
President

Fran Rusciano Murnane
Director of Development

Tim Dornfeld
Director of Finance & Operations

Claudia Correa
Recording Secretary

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