The History of St. Joseph High School
The year was 1904. In an attempt to encourage young women to enter the business world, the Sisters of St. Joseph opened the St. Joseph Academy for Young Women at 834 Pacific Street. Within five years, the building had become inadequate for the growing number of women interested in attending the Academy.
St. Joseph High School is proud of its long history of Christian education in Downtown Brooklyn.
In an effort to accommodate the increasing number of students, additional buildings --
342 Bridge Street and in 1945, 80 Willoughby --were added and renovated into modern classrooms, science laboratories and a fully-stocked library. Later in the early 60s, once again responding to the changing times, the school began to offer academic as well as commercial diplomas…had a four-year program…and a new name: St. Joseph High School.
Technology of the 80s brought the computer into the school program and courses in programming and word processing were integrated into the curriculum. As we move into a new era, we welcome MetroTech’s efforts to establish downtown Brooklyn as a thriving business hub once again. What’s more, we are proud to announce that the MetroTech project places SJHS at the edge of the technology work place of the future.