page_title: St. Stanislaus Parish (Meriden, Connecticut)
section_title: Saint Stanislaus Parochial School
hierarchical_section_title: St. Stanislaus Parish (Meriden, Connecticut) / Saint Stanislaus Parochial School
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of the main entrance of Saint Stanislaus Parochial School taken by Mateusz Rogalski.
context_page_description: St. Stanislaus Parish in Meriden, Connecticut, United States is a Roman Catholic parish founded in 1891 and dedicated to the Bishop of Kraków, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, an 11th-century Polish Saint. St. Stan's is the third oldest Polish-American Roman Catholic Parish in New England and the oldest in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
  The parish built the first Polish Roman Catholic church in Connecticut, which from January 1893 served as the church until the building of the current Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church in 1908. The building also housed the parish school until the building of the current Saint Stanislaus Parochial School in 1915.
  The parish is made up of the church, school, community center, gymnasium, rectory and garage, convent and chapel, and the cemetery, as well as an outdoor shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  In 2017, St. Stanislaus Church merged with Ss. Peter & Paul in Wallingford to form St. Faustina Parish.
context_section_description: The school was originally housed in the classroom wing of the earlier church on Jefferson Street, and served area youth between 1892 and the construction of the modern school building in 1915. St. Stan's Parochial School enrolled students from Kindergarten through 8th grade. Starting in 1990, the Sisters of St. Joseph taught a pre-school program in the Convent, which existed for well-over a decade.
  In 2017 it was announced that St. Joseph's School would be closing at the end of the 2016-2017 school year due to financial challenges, as the school savings and parish support, which it had relied upon for several years to remain open had depleted. Students were encouraged to transfer enrollment to the nearby our Lady of Mount Carmel school.
caption: The main entrance to St. Stan's School
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