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Horizons Hampton Roads is an independent program and not a part of the public school systems, Chesapeake Bay Academy, Norfolk Collegiate, or Portsmouth Catholic Regional Schools.

Portsmouth Catholic Regional School

2301 Oregon Avenue ~ Portsmouth, VA 23701 

As a partner with Horizons Hampton Roads, Portsmouth Catholic Regional School provides the place for summer sessions each year AND a wealth of expertise and administrative help. Founded in 1876, the first school was located on the corner of Dinwiddie and King Streets.

In 1891 the Xaverian Brothers came to Portsmouth to staff the newly erected Saint Paul's Academy for Boys at the corner of Washington and London Streets. The Brothers staffed the Academy for thirty nine years until 1931 when the coeducational system of education was adopted by the schools and the Daughters of Charity assumed the staffing of both the elementary and high schools. In the same year a new school for the black children of the city opened and was called Our Lady of Victory. The three Portsmouth Catholic Schools continued to expand through the Thirties and Forties, serving the educational needs of the children of the area. After World War II two more elementary schools were opened.

In 1959 the decision was made to integrate the Catholic Schools throughout the city of Portsmouth. Finally, in February of 1970 the decision was made to consolidate and centralize all Catholic elementary schools in the Portsmouth and Chesapeake areas. Saint Paul's School, Little Flower, and Holy Angels School merged to form the present Portsmouth Catholic Regional School.

The school is a co-educational, K through 12 day school with students engaged in a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. Excellent athletic and extracurricular programs complement a curriculum with a rich selection of Advanced Placement courses in the upper grades.