Editing Chicopee, Massachusetts (section)

==Education==
[[File:Old chs.jpg|thumb|The former Chicopee High School, now the DuPont Memorial Middle School serving grades 6 through 8]]

===College of Our Lady of the Elms===
The [[College of Our Lady of the Elms]] is a four-year liberal arts college offering thirty-three academic majors. It was first founded in 1897 as a girls' preparatory academy in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts|Pittsfield]], the Academy of Our Lady of the Elms. In 1899, it moved to Chicopee as St. Joseph's Normal College. A charter for the school to operate as a women's liberal arts college was approved in 1928, and the name was changed to the College of Our Lady of the Elms. It began admitting men in 1998.

===Private elementary===
Catholic schools operated under the Diocese of Springfield include: Saint Joan of Arc School which serves Saint Rose de Lima Church; and Saint Stanislaus School which serves the [[St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish, Chicopee|St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish]].

===Private secondary===
[[Image:Hchsbuilding1.jpg|thumb|right|Holyoke Catholic High School]]
[[Holyoke Catholic High School]] was founded in 1963 at the campus of the former Saint Jerome High School in Holyoke. In 2002 it relocated to the campus of Saint Hyacinth Seminary in [[Granby, Massachusetts|Granby]]. It moved to its Holyoke location in September 2008, and 2015 it merged with [[Cathedral High School (Springfield, Massachusetts)|Cathedral High School]] to form a new regional Catholic school that was completed in 2016 as [[Pope Francis High School]] in Springfield.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Martinez |first1=Alessandra |title=Cathedral, Holyoke Catholic to merge under proposal by Bishop |url=https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/fate-of-cathedral-high-school-announcement-scheduled/1042668390 |access-date=21 September 2018 |work=WWLP |date=23 February 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Move, merger of Cathedral High and Holyoke Catholic now complete |url=http://iobserve.org/2016/06/24/move-merger-of-cathedral-high-and-holyoke-catholic-now-complete/ |access-date=21 September 2018 |work=iObserve.org |date=24 June 2016}}</ref>