Immaculate Conception School

Immaculate Conception School was one of two parochial schools for Black Catholics on the Charleston peninsula. It was founded in 1904 by the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy.  The sisters converted the original church building, a wooden structure built in 1880, into a school. In 1917, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first congregation of women religious of African descent, took over school operations.  In 1971, due to integration, the diocese restructured the parochial schools on the peninsula and consolidated classes.   Immaculate Conception closed the following year.