Hartford is an outlier in the state as the only city in Hartford, New Haven and Litchfield counties that does not have an Archdiocese Catholic school.

That will change in the fall of 2026 with the opening of the Catholic Academy of Hartford, the first Archdiocese Catholic school in the city since 2016 when St. Augustine school closed.

Since becoming Hartford’s archbishop in 2024, Archbishop Christopher Coyne has advocated to bring Catholic education back to the city.

The school located at 765 Asylum Ave. will begin as a pre-kindergarten through second-grade institution, adding a grade level each year and ultimately offering pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, according to the Archdiocese of Hartford.

The Archdiocese purchased the building for $1.5 million, Coyne said.

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