The school was started in February, 1929, with seventeen pupils. Sister Alice Teresa of the sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth from Convent Station was in charge of the new school. St. Thomas House also served as first classrooms of the new school. Towards the summer of that year, it was found necessary to take down a partition in the building and turn the entire building into a church. A census of the parish taken during July and August of that year (1929) revealed many children anxious for the benefits of a Catholic grammar school education. The enrolment in September, 1929 increased from the original seventeen to fifty-two. At that point, Sister Joseph Concepta was sent to assist. The children were transported from Cragmere, from the Valley Road, and from Fardale by taxi. The first commencement of the parish school was held Sunday, June twenty-second, at three-thirty o’clock in the afternoon, in the parish church. The church, prettily decorated with the American and Papal flags, and the school colors, blue and white, was taxed to its capacity in accommodating the extremely large numbers of friends and relatives of the graduates. The graduates were Virginia Costello and Thomas Duggan. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas H. McLaughlin, pastor of the church, delivered the sermon, and assisted by the Rev. Charles C. Demjanovich, made the presentation of diplomas, medals and prizes. Major Charles V. Bacon, then commander of the American Legion Post No. 236 of Mahwah, NJ, also was present and assisted in the conferring of the American Legion medals. Particular praise is due to the parish choir which rendered the music for the occasion in a most commendable manner. The cost of transportation by public taxi was seen to be too great to be continued.  Accordingly, in the summer of 1920, the parish bought a school bus, built to specifications, the capacity of which is fifty-six children. The enrolment increased to one hundred in the Fall of 1930, and a private dwelling situated at the intersection of Darlington Road and Darlington Avenue was transformed into the parish school and hall. This building, still in use, was dedicated on Sunday, September 7, 1930. Assisting Msgr. McLaughlin in the dedicatory ceremonies were the Rev. John M. McDonald of St. Joseph’s Church, Paterson, as deacon; the Rev. Michael C. Zarrillo, of St. Vincent’s Church, Madison, as sub-deacon, and the Rev. Charles C. Demjanovich, Vicar of the Parish, as Master of Ceremonies. The sermon on the occasion was preached by the Very Rev. Msgr. John J. Dauenhauer, S.T.D., pastor of St. Vincent’s Church, Madison, N.J. The second commencement of the school, held in June, 1931, saw diplomas of graduation awarded to three children, namely Rosemary D’Arcy, Elizabeth Hackett, and George Buletza. The sermon on this occasion was preached by the Very Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Whalen, spiritual director of the Immaculate Conception Seminary. In September, 1931, the enrolment of 133 children necessitated the addition of a fourth classroom and the acquirement of added teaching personnel. Seven children received diplomas of graduation at the commencement exercises, held in June. These seven were Paul Borish, Ann D’Arcy, Charles Dooley, Robert Fay, Hilda Grotewahl, Mildred Grotewahl and Susan Larkin. The bus, in addition to transporting the children to and from the school at Darlington takes care of the transportation of the children going to St. Luke’s High School, at Waldwick. The bus schedules have been coordinated, so that the bus from St. Luke’s school arrives at Ramsey a few minutes after the bus from Darlington reaches there, while the order of arrival is reversed in the afternoon. The bus, bringing to the school a total of 103 children each school day last year, traversed twenty-seven miles each morning, and a like distance each afternoon, passing from Darlington through Oakland, Crystal Lake, Campgaw, Fardale, Wyckoff Avenue to Ramsey and then to Darlington, and then on a second trip through Cragmere and Mahwah, and then back to the school. The teaching personnel is composed of Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth from Convent Station, New Jersey. Sister Alice Teresa, the principal, is assisted by Sister Joan Miriam, Sister Mary Justin and Sister Joseph Concepta.