“The Terra Sancta School in Ramleh is present in all the homes. There is no Arab family in the city that has not had one of its members at this school.” Fra Abdel Masih Fahim, of the Custody of the Holy Land, is proud of the mark that the Franciscan school can leave on society through forming the new generations.
The Terra Santa School was founded in Ramleh in 1728 (and in Jaffa in 1730). Today it has 460 pupils, from the fourth to the twelfth grade (from ages 9 to 18), of whom 58% are Christians. From the next school year, all the sections will be open, starting from pre-school.
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