[1] The final building, on 30 acres (12 ha) of land, was developed from a fundraising program that began in 1999,[2] and resulted in a campus completed in 2000.
[4] The school was going to close in 2012 but Anthony B. Taylor, the bishop of the diocese, gave a clemency of one year.
[5] Taylor did so after the community raised $38,505 as part of the "Save St. Joseph School" campaign.
The school had calculated what would have been necessary to save it as part of a feasibility study conducted in February 2013.
[6] John Worthen of the Pine Bluff Commercial wrote that area Catholic schools were losing students as many who wanted private education came to Ridgway Christian instead.