Christ The Teacher Catholic Schools

Sacred Heart High School was founded by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.  In 1916 the Sisters arrived in Yorkton on the invitation of Bishop Budka and Father A. Delaere to set up a school for Ukrainian immigrants.  On January 11, 1917, the school opened and established as the Sacred Heart Institute, under the leadership of Sister Ambrosia Lenkewich, the Canadian Provincial Superior at the time.  The school opened with an enrolment of 25 elementary students and the next year the enrolment increased to 75 students of which 22 were students whose parents were lost to the influenza epidemic.

In 1945, the name changed to Sacred Heart Academy and it became a boarding school for girls from grade nine to twelve. The first volleyball team was established in 1959, and the first Musical was held in 1961. In 1967, the first male teachers were hired. From 1967 to 1973, boys and girls from Sacred Heart Academy and St. Joe's Academy, the boys' school, exchanged classes.

In 1973, boys were allowed to enroll at Sacred Heart Academy, making it co-ed for the first time. The name was then changed to Sacred Heart High School. Grade eight was added to the school in 1989.

In the fall of 1998 the grade eight classes remained at the four elementary schools and Sacred Heart once again became a grade nine to twelve school.

In April of 1998 the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate handed the full responsibility for the operation of the school over to the Yorkton Catholic School Division.  The work of the SSMI will be carried on by the staff and students.

In February 2003, construction of the new Sacred Heart High School was completed.  Students and staff made the transition to the new facility, and began classes in the new school on February 24.  While this transition marked a new era in Catholic education at the High School level in Yorkton, every effort was made to retain the unique traditions established by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.