The present school building was dedicated in 1896 and is located at 456 West 52nd Street in New York's Hell's Kitchen.

These Sisters of Charity along with Father Mooney faced the difficult period of education when children were not mandated to attend school and child labor laws had not come into being.

The Sisters and the pastor faced a variety of challenges form the opening of a kindergarten in 1898, which was to help serve the needs of working mothers, to class sizes of over 100 students.

Sister also organized a group of women from the neighborhood to assist families with newborn children or to prepare outfits for special occasions such as First Communion or Confirmation.

In 1924, Father Daniel Quinn, the only native of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish to serve as pastor, invited the Christian Brothers of Ireland, known today as the Congregation of Christian Brothers, to staff a boys department of Sacred Heart of Jesus School.

While the Brothers had a strong reputation for discipline they also lived up to the spirit of their motto, Facere et docere, To Do and To Teach.

Faced with increasing costs, the parish could no longer afford to educate boys and girls separately.

The school provided space for children who were developmentally delayed to be educated in our building with their own programs and their own teachers.

The school's library has been expanded, the computer lab was upgraded and the façade of the building was restored to its original 1896 condition.

The school also offers FREE full day Pre-K to four-year-old students that reside in the five boroughs.