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==Education== ===Primary and secondary education=== The Wickliffe School District is all one building as of the 2023-2024 school year. Lower school, K-6, is taught on the first floor of the building, and upper school, 7-12, is located on the second story. The public school mascots are known as the Wickliffe Blue Devils. There is also a Roman Catholic school, Mater Dei Academy, founded in 2010, which offers education for children in pre-school through grade 8.<ref>[http://www.materdeiacademy.us/ Mater Dei Academy]</ref> Wickliffe High School, the associated athletic field, and Board of Education offices are located on the land occupied by the former estate of [[Frank Rockefeller]], brother of [[John D. Rockefeller]].<ref>[https://www.cityofwickliffe.com/residents/history/ Wickliffe History]</ref> The Board building was the previous carriage house for the Rockefeller estate. Previously, there were two other elementary schools - Worden and Mapledale. These were closed in 1982. Around 2010, Mapledale was demolished and replaced by a housing community and golf course. Worden was also demolished and replaced by the Wickliffe Community Center. ====1994 Wickliffe Middle School shooting==== {{Main|1994 Wickliffe Middle School shooting}} The Wickliffe Middle School shooting was a [[school shooting]] that occurred on November 7, 1994, at Wickliffe Middle School in Wickliffe, Ohio, United States. The gunman, 37-year-old Keith A. Ledeger, was a former student at Wickliffe Middle School. ===Higher education=== Wickliffe is home to [[Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology]], the [[Roman Catholic]] [[seminary]] serving the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland|Diocese of Cleveland]]. It was established in 1848 by the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, [[Louis Amadeus Rappe]].<ref>[http://www.stmarysem.edu/welcome.htm Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology: Welcome!]</ref> It is located at 28700 Euclid Avenue. The seminary was originally a high school built by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. It housed the first Marycrest School for troubled girls. It was not a home for unwed mothers. The Good Shepherd Sisters sold the school building and grounds to the diocese for Boromeo Seminary use in the mid-1940s and moved the school to the Marcus Hanna estate in Independence, Ohio. Marycrest High School closed its doors on September 11, 2001. Wickliffe is home to the [[Telshe Yeshiva]], an Orthodox Jewish [[yeshiva]] which originated in [[Telšiai|Telz, Lithuania]], and moved to Wickliffe after Lithuania [[History of Lithuania#World War II (1939–1945)|fell to the Nazis in World War II.]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Telshe Yeshiva|url=http://www.accessjewishcleveland.org/organizations/t/telshe-yeshiva.aspx|publisher=Access Jewish Cleveland|access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref>
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