Tuscarawas Central Catholic Elementary School is dedicated to building disciples of Christ, providing an excellent academic program integrated with Catholic teaching, and promoting life long service to church and community.

Registration is now open for the 2020-21 school year.   Families currently enrolled at TCCES can register through your SchoolSpeak account.   Application forms for all new students in grades preschool through grade six are available in the school office or on the Admissions Page of the website.

For more information about scholarship opportunities, click HERE.

We will have a dress down day tomorrow, February 20, to help with the cost of our spring play.   We will be presenting “The Lion King” May 19^th.   We appreciate your support!
 
The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools Art Fest is Thursday, February 20, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the high school.   Student art work will be on display and the Singing Saints will perform at 5:45 pm and then join the Immaculate Conception Junior Choir to sing the National Anthem before the girls’ basketball tournament game at 7:00 pm.
 
All families are invited to join us this Sunday for an afternoon of free skating at the Skate Place in New Philadelphia from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.   All students and their siblings can skate for free.   This will be a fun night out sponsored by the Home and School Association.  We hope to see you there!
 
The season of Lent begins next Wednesday, February 26.   We will attend Mass at 8:15 am.  During Lent, we will attend Stations of the Cross or a special prayer service each Friday at 1:00 pm in St. Joseph Church.   Everyone is invited to join us each Friday.  There is also a Lenten calendar in this week’s envelope to serve as a reminder that Lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.


Fifth grade student Natalie Musser (right) is our spelling bee champion.   She advances to the regional spelling bee in Canton in March.   Cody Rufenacht was the runner-up.














The kindergarten class celebrated the 100th day of the school year by dressing up like 100 year old men and women!







Sixth grade student Steven Simpson successfully defended his title as the school Geography Bee Champion.  Steven will now take an on-line test in hopes of advancing in the national competition sponsored by National Geographic.  Estella Everett was the runner-up.


 

Teams of students competed in our Catholic/Bible Trivia contest to kick-off Catholic Schools Week.   Michael Alesiano served as the contest moderator





Students participated in a scavenger hunt, looking for objects around the building and verses in the bible.  Older students helped the younger classes.







Our Kindness Tree is bloomed with dozens of acts of kindness.   Every leaf on the tree represents an act of kindness by the students.







Other activities during the week included special days to honor our students, parents, and great staff.   Service projects included a night of work at the Dover-Phila Food pantry and cleaning up around the school grounds.  The theme for the week was "Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed."


 

The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools Board of Trustees next meeting is in April.   Board committtees are currently helping the schools develop preliminary budgets for the next school year, reviewing our youth sports programs, working with each school on building maintenance priorities, marketing efforts, and more.   

Tuscarawas Central Catholic Elementary School offers programs from pre-school through grade six.  Our mission is to provide all students with opportunities to become life long learners by integrating Catholic teaching with academic excellence.  We are affordable.  We are open to all.  We invite you to be a Saint.

TCCES is one of three Catholic Schools in Tuscarawas County.

Tuscarawas Central Catholic Junior/Senior High School in New Philadelphia houses grades seven thorugh 12.  The website is 
www.tccsaints.com
Immaculate Conception School in Dennison offers programs from pre-school through grade six.  The website is www.icsdennison.org.

The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools operate as a unified school system dedicated to providing an excellent faith-filled education at an affordable price.  Click here to see our Code of Regulations.

 

St. Joseph Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Church of the Holy Trinity
Immaculate Conception Church