Notre Dame High School in Clarksburg offering bus from Fairmont
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Notre Dame, the private Catholic high school in Clarksburg, announced that it will now offer daily bus transportation for students from Fairmont.
The new transportation option will pick up and drop off students at Fairmont Catholic School in downtown Fairmont, which only offers education up to grade 8. The transportation will serve both Notre Dame High School and Saint Mary's School in Harrison County.
Pickup in Fairmont will be at 7 a.m., the bus will depart from the campus in Clarksburg at 3:15 p.m. daily. According to Notre Dame, the bus will be offered through a partnership with Marion County Transit Authority.
Marion County does not have a Catholic high school or a substantial private school option for high school students.
Arcade games, weapons, crystals on new 'unallowable' expense list for West Virginia's Hope Scholarship
Private education is expected to expand in West Virginia in the coming years because of the Hope Scholarship, a program that lets parents choose to invest their tax dollars into alternative education for their family instead of public education. Qualifying students can get up to $5,000 for private, homeschool or alternative education tuition and expenses.
A new charter school, Clarksburg Classical Academy, opened in Harrison County at the start of the 2024-2025 school year after the scholarship met the required number of participants to expand starting in 2026.
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