history

St. Anthony's School has provided continuous years of education since the 1917-18 school year. It was staffed by the Sisters of the Atonement until 1938. From 1938 until 1942 the school was staffed by the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. The first St. Anthony's School building was completed in 1927. That building is now the Deaf Smith County Museum. In 1942 the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate came from Amarillo to staff the school and remain to this date. The school had its first lay Principal in the 1986-87 school year. The majority of the faculty is currently comprised of lay teachers.

The main building was dedicated on May 15, 1955. There have been three additions built since the completion of the main building. Total number of classrooms is sixteen plus a library, meeting room, cafeteria and gym.

At the end of the 1971-72 school year, the seventh and eigth grades were discontinued. Since then the school has maintained classes through the sixth grade. Five year old kindergarten was added in 1970 and a pre-school program for four year olds in 1989. After school care was offered as a service to working parents beginning in 1990.