Welcome to the start of a new school year!

I want to extend a special welcome to our new families – we are so happy to have you as part of the IMS family. By this time, I hope that …

St. Thomas More High School might have closed their doors in 1975, but the St. Thomas More Alumni Association (STMAA) is still going strong. Since 1980, the Alumni Association has awarded more than $1.4 million in scholarships, which goes a …

Bruce Robinson to Begin New Role on January 7th, 2019

Independence Mission Schools (IMS), a Philadelphia-based non-profit that provides a transformative Catholic education to nearly 5,000 low-income students of all faiths, today announced the successful completion of its national search …

Great news! Congratulations to Kaylah McGuffie, 8th grader at Our Mother of Sorrows/ St. Ignatius for winning one of the Connelly Neumann High School Scholarships! This is a full four year scholarship to one of the Archdiocesan Faith in the …

Dear IMS community,

With so much turmoil happening in our world and in our country, it is troublesome to have to live and grow up in a place where so much hatred exists. However, it is good to remember our …

Our Mother of Sorrows/ St. Ignatius is  extremely proud  to announce three of our alumni- Tyriq Jones- Garland (St. Josephs Preparatory School), Nadir Morton-Andrews (West Catholic Preparatory High School), and Richard Tunstall (West Catholic Preparatory High School) have been selected …

We have had so much to do at Our Mother of Sorrows/St. Ignatius over the past month. Our Students kicked off the Christmas Season with a trip to Longwood Gardens! Lucky for us, twenty 5^th-8^th graders got …

At the first annual Independence Mission Schools Academic Challenge competition Our Mother of Sorrows/ St. Ignatius Students won 3rd place in the History category!

The Academic Challenge was made up of four subjects: Writing, Science, History and Math. In the …

Two of our best and brightest 7th grade girls, Iyannah and Kaylah were accepted into the Katherine Drexel Program at Merion Mercy Academy for the 2016-2017 school year!  The program begins Saturday October 1st and runs through May. A full …

Thanks to Saint Joseph’s University (SJU), and their Philadelphia Service Immersion Program, we were blessed to have an eager group of college freshman helping us throughout the past week. Their hard work …